Machine Building

IDS achieves sales increase well above industry average

The sales growth of IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH remained above average at around 20 per cent even in 2018. Sales rose particularly strongly with approximately 50 per cent in Asia, but the company also recorded growth of about 20 per cent in the USA and Europe. The company is planning numerous investments for 2019, including at the headquarters in Obersulm.

8th February 2019

PLCnext Store provides easy access to automation software

Phoenix Contact now offers the PLCnext store for its open control platform PLCnext. This software store provides software applications (apps) that users can utilise to add technical functions to the PLCnext Control controller. Depending on the app, the user does not need any deep knowledge of programming to create their application directly using the software.

8th February 2019

Video showcases AWS Electronics' rapid prototyping capabilities

AWS Electronics Group is unveiling its latest company video showcasing AWS Fast Track - a dedicated stand-alone manufacturing facility offering small batch assembly, rapid prototyping and New Product Introduction (NPI) services.

8th February 2019

Mouser publishes industrial automation All Things IoT eBook

Mouser Electronics has published a new eBook centred on industrial automation as part of All Things IoT, the latest series in Mouser's award-winning Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the third and final eBook in the series, industry experts explore the innovative technologies and trends that cities are applying to emerging smart infrastructure projects.

7th February 2019

Lee Spring publishes Centenary Catalogue of ex-stock springs

Lee Spring's new Centenary Catalogue issue 25 includes a full new section of DIN-Plus parts 2 and 1 compression springs. This extensive 525 series of new parts in end-closed passivated stainless steel wire, or end-squared and ground plated spring steel, provides manufacturers with a welcome resource for rapid delivery of standard parts, as well as a springboard for specification of custom units to suit those slightly different installations. DIN part 2 covers the Compression Instrument DIN (CID) standard, while DIN part 1 makes up the LCD - Lee Compression DIN standard series.

6th February 2019

Video shows how energy chains guide and protect cables and hoses

igus has released a new video that shows how its energy chains can guide and protect cables and hoses using the example of a vehicle-mounted crane.

5th February 2019

Rockwell Automation acquires Emulate3D

Rockwell Automation has acquired Emulate3D, an innovative engineering software developer whose products digitally simulate and emulate industrial automation systems. By using accurate simulation models to improve systems planning and decision-making, followed by emulation trials that test the control system before installation, Emulate3D's software enables customers to virtually test machine and system designs before incurring manufacturing and automation costs and committing to a final design.

5th February 2019

Digi-Key to stock Navitas GaNFast power ICs

Navitas Semiconductor and Digi-Key Electronics today announced a distribution agreement to provide worldwide, 24-hour availability and accelerate market penetration and revenue ramp of GaNFast power ICs.

4th February 2019

RS Components launches comedy podcast series

RS Components has started production of its second comedy podcast series following the 5-star rating of its popular History Makers series, released in 2018. With a brand new title for 2019, to reflect its originator, The DesignSpark Podcast will feature a cocktail of fun facts, exuberant stand-up, outlandish sketches and foot-tapping songs, giving a comedic look, in the style of BBC Radio 4's Now Show, at some of the hottest topics in technology.

4th February 2019