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Nidec buys Mitsubishi machine tool business and expertise
The Japanese motors and drives manufacturer Nidec has acquired the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool ...
►Rexnord merger with Regal creates $5bn giant with new name
►UK joins pledge to double motor system efficiencies by 2030
►Is Siemens planning to sell off its large drives business?
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Schneider’s first UK smart factory pays for itself in under a year
Schneider Electric has invested £300,000 in its plant in Flint, North Wales, upgrading it to become its firs ...
►Belfast digital testbed will boost smart manufacturing
►Advanced Engineering show returns to NEC after two years
►UK could create 1.2m green manufacturing and construction jobs
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VW installs 5G network, paving way to smarter plants
Volkswagen has commissioned a standalone 5G wireless network at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, to test ...
►3D collision-avoiding sensor works like bat echolocation
►30-tonne rack-and-pinion is ‘world’s most powerful’
►Speckle-free laser doubles 3D image processing speeds
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Acoustic imager detects changes in sounds from plants
Fluke Process Instruments has announced its first acoustic imager – a device that can detect, locate and visualis ...
►Low-cost kit allows anyone to monitor machine OEE levels
►Multi-carrier digital twins will speed machinery set-ups
►I/O module is first based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip
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SPS 2019 Show Exclusive Report
Last November’s SPS automation show in Nuremberg, Germany, was the 30th in the series and the firs ...
►Hannover Fair 2019 Exclusive Show Report
►SPS IPC Drives 2018 Exclusive Report
►Hannover Fair 2018 exclusive show report
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Safety upgrade safeguards wet-wipe production
The soaring demand for hygienic products for use in the fight against Covid-19 means that machine utilisation ...
►India's largest car-maker makes the connection
►Automated tester puts the squeeze on tennis balls
►Robots help to give whisky barrels a new lease of life
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Scaling up to flatten the curve
Before and after Christmas, I was in discussions with DFA Media about joining its experienced editorial team ...
►EU: should we stay or should we go? A VSD repairer's view
►Keeping up with the changing face of EN safety standards
►Evolution v technology: influencing natural selection
