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Industry News

• Automate 2019 Show and Conference Comes to Chicago April 8–11
  Broadest Automation Event in North America to Explore How to “Win the Future” with Real-World Solutions and Technology Advances
• A3 Insider - Gift guides: How about a robot for the holidays?
  This year, there’s a lot of cool tech – from little toy robots to engineering kits to high-flying drones
• maxon motor opens Innovation Center at Lake Sarnen
  After two years of construction, maxon motor ag opened its new Innovation Center at the headquarters in Sachseln, Switzerland.
• Financial Year 2017/2018
  Lenze 2020+ growth strategy appears to be taking off: Lenze Group again achieves record revenue figures and EBIT
• POSITAL Ramps Up Production of Wiegand Sensors for Energy Harvesting
  POSITAL has upgraded its facilities for producing Wiegand sensors.

Technical Features

• Smart Conveyors Move Ahead
  Adding motion control produces conveyor systems with improved flexibility, functionality, and performance.
• The Biggest Trend in Controls is Choice
  PLCs manage motion control, motion controllers handle machine logic, drives work with distributed control—except when they don’t.
• New Trends in Drives
  Functions that enable OEMs & machine builders to boost performance, productivity, and usability, plus, the trend that anyone buying...
• Moving Toward Better Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is one of the hottest concepts going today.
• Recent Trends in Motors
  OEMs work to deliver equipment to end-users that delivers higher throughput and better operational equipment effectiveness (OEE) in a smaller

New Product/Service News

• Beckhoff Announces New TwinSAFE Logic Solutions for More Modular, Scalable Safety
  Reduced hardware and engineering costs for distributed safety applications via new generation of Beckhoff safety controllers
• Kollmorgen Launches New Dual-Axis AKD®2G Servo Drive
  Power-dense servo drive reduces wiring, fuses, and filtering to save panel space
• American Control Electronics Releases PML Series: Microcontroller-Based Brushless DC Motor Controls
  An onboard microprocessor allows for custom programming the PML Series for tasks as simple as changing the purpose of a
• New from Ruland: Schmidt Controlflex couplings
  Controlflex couplings have a compact balanced design, are electrically isolating, and have high misalignment capabilities, making them an ideal fit
• Kollmorgen Launches New Dual-Axis AKD®2G Servo Drive
  Power-dense servo drive reduces wiring, fuses, and filtering to save panel space