OMRON’s first Automation Center in Europe has recently received a major redesign and now includes an extensive demonstration area for innovative automation applications. Visitors can experience OMRON’s full industrial automation solutions including robotics, quality control, flexible manufacturing and AI, and learn how to adapt their business to meet the changing needs of their customers and the society. The real-life demonstrations lead the way to the factory of the future.
The CAF Group has secured new contracts to supply electric buses in Europe. Namely, it will supply 14 24-metre units for the Danish city of Aalborg, 30 electric units for the Italian city of Genoa and 24 units for Barcelona These contracts amount to a value of approximately 45 million euros.
The operator of a car wash line in Germany repeatedly had to replace bearings in the rotary unions of the system’s wash heads, leading to over €12,000 per annum for spare parts alone. However, maintenance costs were reduced to zero after replacing the bearings with NSK Molded-Oil deep groove ball bearings featuring DDU seals.
A new single-speed model for loads of from 125 to 2000 kg is now available In VERLINDE's range of EUROCHAIN VX electric hoists. The VX-S hoist offers functions similar to the EUROCHAIN VX range but with new lifting speed advantages: design, robustness and safety for lifting.
Maintainers are often faced with obsolete equipment that is no longer manufactured. To fight against obsolescence, Actemium Adour Pyrénées manufactured a 3D printer, by using 80% of recycled materials, to create custom parts to replace broken pieces for industrial clients.
Dunkermotoren impressed the jury of Industrial Production magazine in this year's competition for the "INDUSTRIAL Production - handling award 2021". With the BG 95 dPro servo motor in combination with the NG 500 hub gearbox, Dunkermotoren achieved third place in the electrical automation category.
Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, will present a new ‘Expert Insights’ tech talk on Thursday 18 November 2021. International keynote speaker Mark Jeffries will moderate the discussion on the topic of mobile electrification with two Parker leaders.