Worm gearboxes and worm geared motors can transmit very high torques in a small installation space. This allows for a very compact, yet powerful machine layout, explain the experts at Lenze Selection.

Mitsubishi Electric has announced the global launch of its GOT3000 Human-Machine Interface (HMI), which is designed to support the manufacturing sector's accelerating digital transformation (DX) with powerful new capabilities that enhance connectivity, usability, and system integration.

Festo has added the first edge device to its range of AX Controllers. CEPE is a high-performance industrial PC and control unit designed for industrial motion and IoT applications. It uses the Festo AX operating system (OS), which is based on PLCnext Technology and offers an open ecosystem for modular automation and easy programming.

Southco has launched the EC damping hinge, a soft-close hinge with the strength to bring ergonomic safety to industrial applications.

LEMO announces the launch of the REDEL SP IP68 Series, the next generation of high-performance connectors engineered for medical, test and measurement, and UAV applications.

Since the 1980s, frequency inverters have been an integral part of the modular products offered by the NORD DRIVESYSTEMS for drive solutions. Today NORD's drive electronics portfolio meets the requirements of numerous industry applications and always stays close to the market with its developments.

Rockwell Automation has announced the launch of SecureOT solution suite, a comprehensive industrial cybersecurity offering designed to help manufacturers and critical infrastructure protect critical operations and build secure environments.

PI (Physik Instrumente) offers a new 6-axis variant of its successful F-141 PINovAlign automated fibre alignment system. The F-141 is a compact, cost-optimised high-performance alignment solution providing precision motion in 2, 3, 4 and degrees of freedom for the industrial test and assembly of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), fibres and fibre array units (FAU).

With decades of precision measurement expertise, HBK is helping robots "feel" and interact with their environment safely and intelligently. We spoke to Ryan Young, Global Head of Engineering - OEM Sensors, who heads up development of customised 6-DoF force/torque sensors for OEMs to find out more.

Achieving equivalent forces to hydraulic designs, electric linear actuators are more precise and reliable, and they're also less expensive to run. When upgrading to an electric linear actuator, accurate sizing of the existing application is crucial to achieve the most efficient and cost-effective specification, as Gerard Bush, engineer at INMOCO, explains.