Survey reveals plans to invest in automation, and Aussie motor 'doubles' speed record
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The latest survey of skills issues in the UK manufacturing sector reveals that there are now 95,000 vacancies in the sector, costing the economy ￡7.7bn every year – a ￡21m daily loss to UK GDP. The survey, by the manufacturers' organisation Make UK and the accountancy firm Sage, shows that 58% manufacturers are planning to recruit engineering technicians while 61% are prioritising production and process engineers. But it also highlights the changing nature of the manufacturing sector as it digitalises, with 27% of companies saying they now need data analysts. Manufacturers will have to compete with the financial sector and other high-paying parts of the economy to find people with the necessary digital skills.
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Parker Hannifin has announced a pair of multi-axis motion controllers that combine machine logic, real-time motion control, safety functions and visualisation in a scalable format. The PAC120 and PAC340 controllers offer differing memory capacities, CPU performance, communication options and CNC fu ...
The UK’s largest and most advanced r&d facility for robotics and artificial intelligence, the ￡22.4m National Robotarium, has opened its doors at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The centre has also announced an applied engineering and research collaboration with the multi-billion ...
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e new KCI 120 Dplus dual encoder from HEIDENHAIN delivers motor feedback and position measurement in just one rotary encoder. By measuring the position downstream from the gearbox, the KCI 120 Dplus compensates for inaccuracies inherent in highly mobile and dynamic robots. This is necessary because, in order to achieve the desired mobility, articulated robots, operate with serial kinematics and up to six axes. Each of them influences the accuracy. In order to perform its dual functions, the KCI 120 Dplus encoder has one central scanning unit and two separate circular scales. It is thus very compact and easy to integrate. The purely serial EnDat 2.2 interface with functional safety permits its use in safety-related applications such as human-robot collaboration.
ABB is taking a 10% stake in Samotics, a Dutch specialist in analysing the health of rotating machines, and has entered a long-term strategic partnership with the company to provide enhanced condition-monitoring services. They aim to reach the next level of condition-monitoring by co-developing adv ...
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An ABB survey of business leaders in Europe and the US has revealed that most are planning to invest in automation and to re-shore their manufacturing operations in the next few years. But another survey, also conducted by ABB, has discovered a lack of investment in the education and training neede ...
Australian researchers have built a high-speed electric motor that, they claim, is much more robust that other IPMSMs (interior permanent magnet synchronous motors), while using far fewer rare-earth materials and being cheaper. The prototype motor has achieved speeds of 100,000 rpm, more than doubl ...
The SPS (Smart Production Solutions) automation megashow will return to its Nuremberg venue in Germany in November for its first physical show since 2019, with the organisers hoping to attract around 1,100 exhibitors, compared to the 1,585 in 2019. Last year, the exhibition had to be cancelled at t ...