Due to the electrification of automotive fleets, there is no doubt among experts that growth in combustion technology will come to a halt. This will result in increased cost pressure on the current production capacities. A simple retrofitting solution by Liebherr for automated raw part input and finished part removal helps to make full use of productivity reserves.
At the SPS 2021 in Nuremberg, the German connectivity specialist ESCHA is giving an outlook on the coming trends and technologies that will shape the development of connectors in the coming years. The main focus will be on Single Pair Ethernet technology (SPE).
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced a new solution with Stratasys, a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, to help manufacturers in the aerospace sector boost confidence in the performance and safety of 3D printed plastic components and compress time to market.
Mitsubishi Electric controller boosts the performance of Blue Phoenix’s IBA recycling facility. A by-product of the power generation process at waste-to-energy plants, incinerator bottom ash (IBA) can be recycled into construction aggregates and metals.
TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) presents the new C35 type pressure sensor element, designed to measure a range of 0 to 100 mbar. It combines high sensitivity with extremely low dimensions of just 2.05 x 2.05 x 1.2 mm, enabling compact pressure sensor designs.
One of North America’s leading bottled water companies - dedicated to both providing customers with healthy hydration options and to keeping their employees safe - needed a solution to help optimize their asset life cycles. Their primary goal was defining cost-effective, consistent maintenance processes for their facilities, and adopting the technologies needed to support and sustain these processes throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Growing Adoption of Desktop Metal’s Shop System Is Enabling Affordable, Batch Production of High-Quality Metal Parts Throughout Europe. As Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) continues to advance Additive Manufacturing 2.0 (AM 2.0) to reshape the future of manufacturing with mass production and turnkey AM solutions, the company is seeing growing European demand for metal binder jetting, including the Shop System, the world’s first metal binder jetting system designed for machine shops.
The new safety card PMCprotego S3 expands the drive-integrated safe motion solution PMCprotego DS, adding further safe motion monitoring functions in accordance with EN 61800-5-2. With these functions it is now possible to configure an application-specific error reaction in advance, flexibly and individually via the engineering tool PASmotion. That reduces machine downtimes, so that plants always achieve maximum productivity, despite the most varied of safety requirements. This guarantees high plant availability.