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Smart Manufacturing Week 2025 - Drives&Controls
Oct 14, 2024 · More than 450 exhibitors and 13,500 visitors are expected at the two-day event that includes the Drives & Controls show, Smart Factory Expo, Maintec, the Air-Tech exhibition, Fluid Power & Systems and the Design+Engineering Expo. Running concurrently are the Manufacturing Digitalisation Summit, the Industrial Data and AI Summit, and the Automation & Robotics Accelerator Symposium.
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About Us This is the Web site of the UK-based magazine, Drives & Controls, which, for more than 35 years, has been the publication that readers turn to for news and information on the worlds of motion control, automation and mechanical power transmission.It also provides comprehensive coverage of allied subjects such as machine safety, industrial communications, hydraulics, pneumatics and sensors.
Danfoss and Innomotics form drives and motors partnership
Dec 5, 2024 · Danfoss Drives and Innomotics have formed a strategic partnership. Danfoss Drives is entering into a cooperative agreement with Innomotics, the motors and medium-voltage drives specialist that was spun out of Siemens in 2023 and was acquired by KPS Capital Partners in 2024 for €3.5bn.By combining their strengths, the two companies are aiming to increase competitiveness and provide their ...
64-axis controller promises ‘industry-leading cycle times’
Oct 3, 2024 · Kollmorgen has announced a programmable motion controller based on a 1.5GHz quad-core processor that, it claims, delivers industry-leading cycle times. The PCMM2G controller supports applications from small, simple machine modules, to complex automation systems with up to 64 axes of synchronised motion, including S-curve and other complex paths.
Danaher buys Thomson Industries for $165m - Drives&Controls
Sep 1, 2002 · The Danaher Corporation is buying the privately owned linear motion giant Thomson Industries for $165m, plus an extra amount depending on Thomson`s future performance. Danaher plans to merge Thomson with its own linear component and actuator businesses to create a new division called Danaher Linear Motion Systems. Thomson, which employs around 2,600 people and had
Brammer succeeds BSL - Drives&Controls
Feb 1, 2007 · On 1 January, the distributor BSL Brammer became plain Brammer, with a single trading organisation and a single name uniting 11 previously separately-named companies across Europe. The move completes a programme started in 2004, when the Brammer Group began the transition from a series of wholly-owned national businesses to a pan-European company supplying more than
UK tax hikes ‘could spark rush to automation and outsourcing’
Nov 27, 2024 · Tax measures announced recently by the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in her Budget, could trigger a wave of spending on automation and outsourcing, according to Tony Hague, CEO of the outsourced manufacturing specialist, PP Control & Automation. He believes that the £25bn annual rise in employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs) will …
Doughnut motor could power everything from drones to robots
Nov 25, 2024 · Oruga is using the Donut Labs’ motors to power its all-terrain vehicles that combine the characteristics of a snowmobile and a motorcycle. A Finnish company has come up with a modular kit of parts that it says can be used to create almost any form of electrically powered transport, from drones and motorbikes to buses and boats, rapidly and at low cost.
Parker Hannifin buys SSD/Eurotherm Drives - Drives&Controls
SSD was founded in 1974 as Shackleton System Drives, and became Eurotherm in 1992. In 2002, its management bought the company from its previous owner, Invensys, and last year it reverted to the SSD name.The company employs about 1,000 people, and has manufacturing plants in France, Germany and the US, as well as its …