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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
• State of the Art – the next Generation NEMA23 Integrated Stepper Motors
  JVL Industri Elektronik A/S proudly announces a completely new generation of the NEMA23 integrated stepper motors.
• Electric drives are taking over in passenger planes
  Now Available: the latest issue of maxon’s driven magazine.
• 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.

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

• Applied Motion Products Introduces Internationally-Certified Stepper Motor for Operation in Hazardous Locations
  Applied Motion Products introduces the first commercially-available step motor internationally-certified for use in hazardous locations throughout the USA, Canada, Europe,
• Beckhoff Extends EtherCAT Measurement Module Portfolio with ELM314x Economy Line
  System-integrated and inexpensive, precision measurement I/O technology enhances highly efficient machines and test benches
• A Growing Family: POSITAL Adds to its Range of Kit Encoders
  POSITAL is expanding its line of kit encoder solutions for motion control applications to satisfy a wider range of needs.
• PowerPlus Stepper Motors from Moons’ Industries Serve as High-Torque Direct Replacements for NEMA 23, 24 & 34 Frame Motors
  PowerPlus Hybrid Stepper Motors from MOONS’ Industries eliminate the hassles of resizing motors by providing 25% to 40% more torque.
• Beckhoff Reveals CX7000 Embedded PC as New Entry-Level PC-Based Controller
  Compact control hardware for TwinCAT 3 enhances scalability with 400 MHz processor and integrated multi-functional I/Os