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The QNP3 series XYZ piezo positioning stages from Areotech combine sub-nanometer resolution, high dynamics, and excellent geometric performance in a compact three-degree-of-freedom (DoF) package.They come with a 40x40mm clear aperture with closed-loop travels up to 100x100x10µm (open-loop travels to 120x120x12µm).

Functional safety can be improved for cranes, industrial elevators and woodworking machines, by capitalising on unused, standard I/O channels, and this even applied to the countries not using international standards. In a new report from ABB it states that by using the spare, standard I/O channels within ABB’s AC500 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), the functional safety of machine applications can be cost-effectively enhanced.

The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, will play host to ABB Customer World on 13th-16th March. On the second day of the event, the automation and robotics specialist will deliver several keynote speeches and panels to discuss the technological challenges and developments in food manufacturing, processing and packaging as part of its ABB Food and Beverage day.

Chosen to provide the UK market with maintenance and repair services for ABB medium and high voltage motors and generators, Sulzer has signed an agreement which provides ABB customers with direct access to the specialist skills and extensive facilities of Sulzer’s service centres in Birmingham and Falkirk.

A rising demand for energy efficiency and security, technology advancements, and power demand-supply gap is driving theglobal alternator market. Growing industrialisation in the Asia-Pacific region, the shift toward renewable power generation, and investment in distributed energy will drive market revenues to $5.19bn by 2020. In a highly fragmented market dominated by relabels, alternator suppliers must look to integrate with power generation Ori...

In Anchorage, Alaska, USA,ABB will provide a microgrid, combining battery and flywheel based storage technologies, designed to test scalability and improve power stability for around 300,000 people.

ABB has energised a major substation that will help evacuate power from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MBR) Solar Park, a key element of the vision to generate 7%of Dubai’s power from clean energy sources by 2020; 25%by 2030, and 75%by 2050.The 400/132 kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substation has been built for Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA), the UAE’s leading power utility, to connect the second phase of the M...

At this year’s Advanced Manufacturing, users of the 3-axis machining centres will find on the 1st Machine Tool Accessories stand an array of Kitagawa rotary table options for adding fourth and fifth CNC axes.They are capable of raising versatility of production, reducing the number of separate machining operations and increasing the complexity of parts that can be produced.

London’s Abbey Road Studios is one of the most famous recording studios in the world – and of course, is also the setting for one of the most recognisable album covers (The Beatles’ Abbey Road). It has also been witness to countless other landmark recordings over the past 85 years, from Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Oasis to Adele, Frank Ocean, Ed Sheeran and Amy Winehouse, Abbey Road has also been the destination for 100s of iconic...

element.com andPanasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe, together with a number of engineering schools from the UK and Germany, have launched a research project looking at innovative infrared people detection software in combination with the world’s first ever surface mount thermopile sensor – the Panasonic Grid-EYE Infrared Array Sensor.