The Board of Directors of ABB and its CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer (55) have mutually agreed for him to step down from his role, which he has held since 2013. Source…

The WAL 340 has a measurement range of 0 to 290°. Mechanical range is a continuous 360° with no stop. It accepts an 8 mm D-Shaped shaft. Source URL: Novotechnik…

The Institute for Supply Management recently just released the Manufacturing ISM Report on Business for the month of March 2019. The report tracks the manufacturing industry’s monthly performance according to…

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The Ford Livonia plant incorporated an automated transmission production line which illustrated the advantages and results of digitalization based on Ford’s goal of applying solid logic,…

The Scottish MATE ROV competition, coordinated and hosted by RGU, will see 11 school teams from around the country face off as they put their robots through a series of…

The WonderLogix platform allows users to define, visually and in plain English, how their facility should operate, and then automatically generate PLC code and the supporting documentation. Source URL: WonderLogix…

Complemented by peripherals such as the intrinsically safe Cube 800 thermal image video camera and the explosion-proof Smart-Ex Watch, the Smart-Ex 02 accompanies the mobile worker in a range of…

The latest release is intended to enhance automation by allowing the use of Tempest technology inside already established geoscience workflows. Source URL: Emerson releases Roxar Tempest 8.4 integrated reservoir engineering…

Typical industrial robots have accuracies of ±0.1 mm, with some models capable of even higher accuracy. Gear backlash can reduce this accuracy in robots and other precision servomotors, such as…

Advanced manufacturing (AM) is becoming increasingly important in the highly competitive aerospace market—and two leaders in the AM field, 3M and GF Machining Solutions, have developed a new technology that…