Intelligent plant concepts are taking hold in all kinds of industrial operations. Comprehensive drive solutions provider Nord Drivesystems offers “NORD 4.0 ready” components designed to facilitate and further this development.
Motion control components do exactly what they say on the tin – they move things “in and out, up and down, round and round” – to coin the phrase used often by one of the UKs leading manufacturers and distributors of motion control products, LG Motion.
Superconductors could offer tremendous potential for industrial automation, enabling clean and low power contactless handling and transporting of objects.
Compactness and dexterity were two important features of the anthropomorphic Fanuc LR Mate 200iD robot selected by FlexLink for a cutting-edge medical assembly line located in Italy.
While the cost of linear bearings is low, their performance is essential to the accuracy, throughput and reliability of critical production machines.