Handling systems are an essential tool across a range of industries, from manufacturing and metalworking to automotive and railway. Personnel must frequently lift and manoeuvre heavy or awkward loads, then place them with utmost accuracy and care. Zasche Handling has been focused on this challenge (more...)

Delta ways its new compact and high-efficiency ASDA-B3 Series servo system offers a user-friendly operation environment with precise motion control functions, a newly-added safe torque off (STO) function, high responsiveness up to 3.1kHz and high positioning precision with over 16.7 million pulses (more...)

Predictive maintenance is the systematic continuation of condition maintenance with the aim of proactively maintaining machinery and equipment and detecting changes, reducing downtimes and increasing the efficiency of the entire plant. A status-oriented maintenance replaces the traditional (more...)

Many processes, particularly those that occur cyclically, have a high potential of regenerative energy that could be utilised easily and efficiently. However, when it comes to the technical solution and implementation of the machines, energy is often burned up in braking resistors, which is not only (more...)

Industrial automation group Inovance Technology Europe has announced the release of the MD800, an AC multidrive designed to meet the needs of European OEMs for ever more flexible and scalable multidrive performance in an ever more compact footprint. MD800’s modular design enables up to eight (more...)

Elmo Motion Control’s Platinum series advanced servo drives feature EtherCAT networking for ultra-fast machine synchronised single and multi-axis motion, and high levels of functional safety. With full support from Elmo’s UK distribution partner, Heason Technology, these drives are now (more...)

New from Delta is the ASDA-B3 Servo Drive, which boosts high responsiveness up to 3.1 kHz and offers high positioning precision with over 16.7 million pulses per revolution to optimise production efficiency and output value in a wide range of applications, such as machine tools, electronics, (more...)

The challenges of modern machine building place an onus on asset management for a reliable overview of all machines and components, and to enable quick and easy optimisation of service processes. In a new video, Johanna Neujahr, product manager for automation systems at Lenze, and Momina Allawalla, (more...)

Whether a control cabinet installation or a decentralised version for use in the field – with its NORDAC product family, Nord Drivesystems says it is able to offer electronic drive technology for almost every application. The frequency inverters and motor starters cover a wide power range of (more...)

With the introduction of the new AX-8 series, Delta has extended its capabilities in motion control. Thanks to the embedded multi-core technology and real-time extension, this powerful IPC controller based on the CODESYS platform is said to guarantee high performance in a compact fan-less design. (more...)