Power management company Eaton announced it has completed the sale of its Automotive Fluid Conveyance Division to Quantum Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Universal Robots (UR), the most trusted and widely-deployed collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer in the world, today announces that Carlsberg, a global beer brewer, has significantly improved staff safety and taken steps towards achieving zero accidents since integrating cobots into its Fredericia-based factory.
The Han® 1A offers a compact, robust and universally deployable rectangular connector system for transmission in all lifelines of Industry 4.0 (data, power, signals). Users can use it in conjunction with low inventory to produce all necessary interfaces, e.g. for small to medium-sized drives.
Walter, a division within Sandvik Machining Solutions, has reached an agreement to acquire the privately owned US based company Melin Tool Company, a manufacturer of solid carbide tools.
Eiffage Énergie Systèmes’ expertise brand Clévia specializing in HVAC and energy engineering is to mobilize its underground ventilation experts in order to equip the future tunnel on Lyon Metro Line B with a major smoke extraction system.
The good news is that renewables account for nearly 50 percent of electricity generated in Germany. The bad news is that they lack the flexibility to adapt to the day’s fluctuating electricity demand. They only furnish electrical energy when the wind blows or the sun shines. In a perfect world, engineers would find a way to store the vast amounts of energy generated by renewables and coordinate power production and storage. And that is exactly what ES-FLEX-INFRA, a joint project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, aims to do.