FOLLOWING ITS ACQUISITION BY NIDEC AND APPOINTMENT OF A NEW PRESIDENT, CONTROL TECHNIQUES IS SET FOR A FRESH START IN THE DRIVES MARKET
At a press conference in London this month, Anthony Pickering, who was appointed last December as president of Control Techniques, announced that the company has ambitious plans to return to the top table of drives manufacturers. This comes almost a year after the company was acquired by Japan’s Nidec group of companies. Control Techniques has been manufacturing
drives since 1973 (coincidentally the same year Nidec was established). As well as offering an enhanced product range that will be simplified in order to meet market demands, Control Techniques will be re-branding its products, which will return to the green colour most of you will be familiar with. The products will be under four families: Unidrive – performance drives; Digitax – servo
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AUDI CENTRE IN GERMANY TO USE 3D PRINTING TO ACCELERATE DESIGN VERIFICATION
The Audi Pre-Series Centre in Ingolstadt, Germany, which features a Plastics 3D Printing Centre, is to use the Stratasys J750 full-colour multi-material 3D printer to innovate its design process and accelerate design verification. Before a new vehicle goes into production, the Centre builds
physical models and prototypes to evaluate new designs and concepts thoroughly. This requires allocation of most parts of the vehicle in an early stage of product development – everything from wheel covers and door handles to radiator grills. 3D printing has now become an integral part of the automotive design process. In the case of tail light covers, the team traditionally used milling
or moulding to produce individual parts, but the multi-coloured covers of the tail light housing were a challenge. 3D printing will enable production of entirely transparent, multi-coloured, tail light covers in a single print, the company explains.
YOKOGAWA UNVEILS NEW BRAND FOR ITS IA AND CONTROL BUSINESS
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced OpreX, an all-new comprehensive brand for the company’s industrial automation (IA) and control business. The brand comprises five categories: OpreX Transformation: Comprehensive solutions that take the broad view in driving excellence throughout an enterprise’s business activities, from production through to supply chain optimisation, and risk and business management.
www.stratasys.com
STOBER BUILDS ROBOTIC SYSTEM TO MANUFACTURE ITS NEW DRIVE
2018 is proving to be
a very busy year for exhibitions. With Subcon taking place just a couple of weeks ago, we now have a short break over the summer before launching back into the next lot of events. Coming up are: Sensors &
Instrumentation, plus the PPMA - Processing Packaging Machinery - show in September (NEC, Birmingham); the Engineering Design Show in October (Ricoh Arena, Coventry); and then Advanced Engineering on 31 October to 1 November (NEC, Birmingham). Information on all these shows will be included in the pages of Design Solutions over the coming months.
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STOBER Drives has used products from its own range to design and build a robotic component mounting system to manufacture the new LeanMotor encoderless drive. According to the company, LeanMotor is a brand new energy- efficient drive system that ‘bridges the gap between a synchronous and an asynchronous drive’. The new automated production
system used to produce LeanMotor couples STOBER’s newest technology with its existing STOBER AS6 Automation Control Suite. This cost effective piece of production plant has enabled the company to significantly streamline its manufacturing processes.
www.stober.co.uk
OpreX Control: Reliable control systems that respond quickly to changes in management and operations and establish the foundation needed for high efficiency, high quality, safety, and stability in plant operations.
OpreX Measurement: Field instruments and systems that enable high precision measurement, data acquisition, and analysis.
OpreX Execution: Flexible, agile project implementation services, built on a strong global track record
OpreX Lifecycle: Maintenance and development services designed to deliver optimised operations over the entire plant lifecycle whilst working side-by-side with customers.
www.yokogawa.com/oprex
SOUTHCO EARNS UL RECOGNITION
Southco has collaborated with UL to complete testing of a select portfolio of its hinge and latch products according to the newly released FTTA2/FTTA8 Recognition Certification. This evaluates their resistance to corrosion and performance degradation due to environmental conditions and usage over time.
TR Fastenings (TR) has opened a new Technical and Innovation centre in Gothenburg, the heart of Sweden’s automotive industry. The site will allow the company to
achieve two main objectives: to form and enhance working relationships with key customers in the region, and to provide a showroom-style location where customers can visit, view fastener products and discuss design and manufacturing options.
www.trfastenings.com
TT Electronics has acquired Precision, a designer and manufacturer of precision electromagnetic product solutions for critical applications. Based in Minneapolis, US, Precision has around 160 employees that support customers in a range of markets. Richard Tyson, CEO, said: “The
acquisition of Precision is an excellent fit with both our business and our strategy for growth and higher margins. It has a strong position in markets where the proliferation of electronics is increasingly important and will extend our capability for power electronic solutions in the important medical, industrial, and aerospace and defence markets in the US.”
www.ttelectronics.com
Delta Equipement, a French supplier of automation, robotics and additive manufacturing technology, will partner with Solvay to offer advanced additive manufacturing (AM) solutions for demanding high-performance applications. Christophe Schramm, business
manager AM for Solvay’s Specialty Polymers GBU, said: “Partnerships such as the one with Delta Equipement are part of our strategy to develop and become a world-wide leading supplier of advanced AM-ready polymer solutions for 3D printing technologies. Together, we will work to deliver next- generation processes and solutions combining Delta Equipement’s custom-tailored 3D printing knowledge with Solvay’s expertise in high-performance filaments.”
www.delta-equipement.fr
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drives & motors; Commander – general purpose drives; and Integration – products and software. A refurbishment of the company’s plant
in Wales is also set to take place which will transform areas that customers will visit. It is also taking on ten new apprentices this year, bringing the total to 21 and helping to make the company “an employer of choice” in Mid Wales.
http://acim.nidec.com/drives/control-techniques
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