No matter if it’s a flashlight or a Tesla: They don’t work without a battery. maxon recently started a small but excellent workshop for manufacturing lithium-ion battery packs.

The CFT Group (CTF) designs and builds production lines and turnkey systems primarily for the food and beverage industry. One of its customers, Menz & Gasser, which specializes in producing and packaging preserves and honey in portions for hotels, restaurants and catering, had CFT develop a rotary filling plant to a very high specification. For this project, the CFT Group relied on motion control...

CONEC has expanded its portfolio of M12 connectors to include the series of L-coded variants. The compact connectors can transmit signals, data and power.

For more than 40 years CONEC has been developing and producing high-quality connectors and connecting cables as well as housing technology. In this article we present some connectors for automation.

The akYtec GmbH company has announced SMI200, a programmable compact controller which can be used either as an HMI in addition to a powerful PLC or as a local small PLC and HMI unit in combination with expansion modules.

Plant manufacturer’s product development relies on digitalization and solutions from Siemens. Tu­rate near Milan, Italy. Zani S.p.A. form­ing ma­chines (Zani) man­u­fac­tures me­chan­i­cal presses for cold form­ing sheet steel and has re­lied for years on Siemens as a tech­nol­ogy part­ner when de­vel­op­ing its presses. This was also the case for the Servo Mas­ter, the most re­cent press, and the...

With the UR55, ICP Deutsch­land is launch­ing an in­dus­trial

LTE cel­lu­lar router onto the mar­ket that of­fers a wide range of in­ter­faces.

Wilhelm Niemann Maschinenfabrik guarantees the reliable operation of their machines with safe and efficient Ex protection solutions from Turck, consisting of accurate sensors and fast compact interface devices. The manufacturer installs space saving isolating switching amplifiers and temperature measuring amplifiers from Turck's IMX12 interface series in the control cabinet. These send the signals...

Two KUKA KR 500 FORTEC robots manufacture innovative lightweight timber construction components for a pavilion for the Bundesgartenschau. The ICD of the University of Stuttgart has developed the robotic manufacturing solution in collaboration with system integrator BEC. Robotic solutions such as these have the potential to be a game-changer for the timber construction industry, which has only made...

Dynetics has cost-effective, efficient and high-quality complete solutions for drive technology in its portfolio – from standardized components to customer-specific solutions. The brushed DC motors of the DMN series have a service life of about 3000 hours in continuous operation.

Origami – the art of paper fold­ing orig­i­nated in Japan and is known world­wide. The art of robot-based cor­ru­gated board fold­ing can be ad­mired at Tri­cor Pack­ag­ing & Lo­gis­tics AG, which has its head­quar­ters in the south­ern Ger­man city of Bad Wörishofen. The com­pany spe­cial­izes in the con­struc­tion of heavy-duty cor­ru­gated board and pack­ag­ing. And the highly pro­duc­tive and...

Within about a year, TDK Corporation rolled out the new generation of its programmable power supply series TDK-Lambda GENESYS+™ and once again set new standards. In particular, the introduction of state-of-the-art DSP technologies (Digital Signal Processing) offers many new possibilities that the new GENESYS+™ power supplies translate into practical user benefits, such as doubling power density...