Automation and controls

NORD DRIVESYSTEMS presents DuoDrive, a gearmotor with a revolutionary hygienic wash-down design: the IE5+ synchronous motor and the NORDBLOC.1 single-stage right-angle gearbox are integrated in a single housing.

Maximum productivity, process reliability and extreme compactness. These are the advantages of the WITTENSTEIN alpha servo actuator series, which are ideal for integration in primary packaging applications (e.g. on blister machines) and secondary packaging applications (on shrink wrappers or Delta robots, etc.).

Oriental Motor introduces its new BMU and BLE2 series brushless speed control systems. Complete with dedicated drive, they are often used for the movement of conveyor belts, screw conveyors and other applications where constant torque, small size, low heating and stable speed control are essential prerogatives for proper operation. 

The planar motor system XPlanar combines the advantages of conventional transport technologies with magnetic levitation. The levitating product transport enables a wide range of new options for handling products within a machine and also between several machines.

During B&R Industrial Automation’s Innovations Day 2021 we were catapulted into an artfully created virtual world, with spaces designed to encourage interaction between people and present many highly concrete technological innovations, starting from the ACOPOS 6D system, up to mechatronic solutions, robotics, to motion controls, advanced software functions...

The Refrigeration Division (RT) of GEA, a leading supplier to the process industry, has adopted the IXON Cloud platform, which provides an advanced user management system. The platform has made it possible to improve customer service, fully meeting the needs of the company, which has decided to equip each of its new solutions with an IXrouter.

ABB is expanding its cobot offering with the introduction of the 6-axis GoFa™ CRB (Collaborative RoBot) 15000, with a load capacity of up to 5 kg, the highest in its portfolio.

cyber® dynamic system is the complete industrial drive system from WITTENSTEIN cyber motor consisting of cyber® dynamic line servo motors and the brand new compact servo actuators cyber® simco® drive 2 drives, which are up to 30% more compact than previous models.

Sipro Srl present its innovative line of Delta geometry robots, which completes the portfolio of hardware and software solutions for machine automation and controls/PLC.

Exlar®, the Actuator Division of Curtiss-Wright - whose products are distributed in Italy by Servotecnica - has announced the release of ASSIGN™, the new program for assembling motors on Exlar® FTX and FTP series actuators.

Under pressure to improve productivity, agility and resource utilisation, the packaging sector is turning to advanced automation solutions. Paolo Napolione, country manager of Ewellix Italia shares a secret weapon for the sector - high precision electromechanical linear motion.

Industrial production is always on the lookout for quality control systems that use the simplest possible technological solutions that are easy to integrate, innovative and highly flexible, able to manage multi-format and, above all, allow cost savings. Maurizio Cacciamani   

The most recent ANIE publication, entitled “Artificial Intelligence - Technologies and Industrial Applications”, provides pragmatic and directly usable indications with hints of possible operational use..
Maurizio Cacciamani

For the myPNOZ safety module, Pilz has created a complete, automated system, from ordering to commissioning. With the simple and intuitive myPNOZ Creator online tool, customers can configure the solution to their specific requirements and myPNOZ is then delivered in one-off batches, pre-assembled, tested and ready for installation.

Based on the principle of magnetic levitation, B&R’s ACOPOS 6D opens up a new dimension in adaptive manufacturing. The suffix “6D” in the name stands for “6 Degrees”, i.e. the degrees of freedom the system can offer.

Oriental Motor’s new EH Series electric gripper is driven by a rack and pinion mechanism, run by a stepper motor with integrated absolute mechanical multiturn encoder and a 24 VDC Series AZ drive.

The solutions developed for the packaging industry by SIPRO to automate Pick & Place cycles involve the use of Delta geometry robots.

Many are the strengths of IOT technologies, but it is not easy to build the infrastructure that is able to allow the business to make a forward leap. The role of Competence Center, suppliers, OEM, system integrator and end user.

When a world-renowned converter and automatic machine builder with over 170 years of history meets a young hi-tech startup, a win-win collaboration is born, which gives rise to a new service proposal. Open innovation and servitization are the key factors of a change, which allows machine users to improve productivity and quality. Camillo Ghelfi and Marco Bressanello, respectively CEO of 40Factory…

A young start-up specialized in applying deep learning techniques to machine vision (ARGO Vision) and a company expert in vision, traceability and industry 4.0 systems for drug packaging (SEA Vision) are the protagonists of an all-Italian story about the future and industrial innovation.