Author: DINESH G
Portescap has launched a new line of standard prototype motors for surgical applications. These 15 motors represent the company’s new SM series of surgical motors designed to meet the demanding requirements for surgical devices at a more cost-effective price point. These motors have been optimized for Powered Staplers, Large and Small Bone Orthopedic Tools, Arthroscopic Shavers, ENT Microdebriders, and High Speed Neuro Drill applications. They are also well-suited for traditional surgical tools,as well as for robotically assisted surgical devices and can be paired with a Portescap sterilizable controller for battery powered applications. The SM motors have been designed and tested…
BFW unveiled a new technology centre at Aurangabad. Renowned industrialist and chairman of OMR Bagla Group and director of Aurangabad Electricals, Rishi Bagla, inaugurated the technology centre at Aurangabad at a gathering of scores of entrepreneurs from the city. The Managing director of BFW, Ravi Raghavan and senior leadership team of BFW was also present on the momentous occasion. There was live demonstration of star performance machines, cutting edge application engineering and smart Automation solutions to enhance productivity, quality and to serve global competitiveness Setting up of the Technology Center is a step forward by BFW in being close to…
With global uncertainty looming large over international business and finance even the most adventurous manufacturers and exporters are dithering in making any business plan. However, a more pragmatic analysis of our economic environment shows us that, despite the geopolitical troubles, there are many foreign opportunities for the machine tool industry. Roland Feichtl, President of CECIMO, stated, “The MT market appears to be slowing down, due to the increasing difficulties in the international political scenario.” Total orders for Q2 in 2019 have gone down 19% with respect to Q1 and around 24% if compared to Q2 in 2018. Economic factors are,…
Grundfos, an advanced pump solutions and water technology provider, in collaboration with Hand in Hand India, an international nonprofit organization will provide clean drinking water to more than 1450 villagers residing in Maiyur Panchayat, Tamil Nadu. The villagers in Maiyur Panchayat consisting mostly of labourers have struggled to get water daily, some of them even walking more than two kilometers a day to fetch water.This Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by Grundfos has sponsored a complete drinking water system, including the erection of drinking water bore well, installation of solar operated pump and storage tank arrangement for controlled water use.…
Taiwan is ranked 2nd, in terms of the numbers of exhibitors participating at EMO and 3rd in regards to exhibition space. As the 4th largest exporter of machinery tools and components in the world, it has averaged $4 billion in exports for each of the last few years from a network of more than 1,000 precision machinery manufacturers and more than 10,000 upstream suppliers. Walter Yeh, the president and CEO of TAITRA stated that in 2018, the Taiwan machinery industry saw its annual production rate rise to a record setting high of roughly $39.2 billion USD. At the same time,…
Messe Muenchen India (MM India) and India International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous research and development centre of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India will together host a two-day conference – CALM 2019, at the upcoming edition of LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA, taking place from 17 to 19 October 2019 at the Bombay Exhibition Center (BEC) in Mumbai. CALM 2019 – International Conference on the Application of Lasers in Manufacturing – will focus on laser as a vital manufacturing tool and give an outlook on its various applications.…
Bosch Power Tools India is enabling users to get hands on experience of the cordless range through mobile van demonstration vehicles. An extension of the recently launched user campaign, ‚Cordless Matlab Bosch. Bosch power tools will campaign across multi-cities starting 9th of September across for six months. The company already caters to 40 cities by the ‘Cordless Matlab Bosch’ demo zones through channel partner outlets, Bosch power tools plan to expand its outreach to 50 more cities in India by the end of the month with the product experiential mobile vans campaign. The mobile campaign will kick-start this September in…
Indradev Babu, Managing Director, UCAM Private Limited was elected as the new President of The Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) at its 73rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC).Indian Mr Babu will succeed P. Ramadas, Managing Director, Ace Manufacturing Systems Limited as IMTMA’s President.. Ravi Raghavan, Managing Director, Bharat Fritz Werner Limited was elected as the new Vice President of IMTMA. The new Executive Committee of IMTMA for the year 2019-2020 was also formed. Earlier, in a special session at the AGM, Mr. Kamal Bali, President and Managing Director, Volvo Group India Private…
DMG MORI and Jungheinrich will exhibit their development partnership for driverless transport systems for the first time at EMO Hanover from 16th to 21st September 2019.The DMG MORI PH-AGV 50 heralds a new era of flexible automation solutions in intralogistics. The driverless transport system enables fully automated loading and unloading of workpiece pallets on machine tools. “The “Automated Guided Vehicles” – AGVs– are another important innovation element for the “Digital Factory” of the future. With automated transport systems we offer our customers a further product for automation and digitization,” says Christian Thönes, Chairman of the Executive Board of DMG MORI…
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, company dealing in niche peristaltic and sinusoidal pumps and fluid path technologies will present its broad range of positive displacement pumps and liquid filling technologies at the PPMA Total Show 2019, including the Flexicon PF7, shortlisted for the PPMA Group Industry Awards. This year the stand will include one of the latest additions to Flexicon’s range of peristaltic filling machines, the PF7. The PF7 benchtop aseptic liquid filling machine has also been shortlisted for this year’s PPMA Group Industry Awards in the Innovative Processing System category. “In a field of benchtop fillers where differentiation between competitor…
CUI’s Motion Group announced the addition of the AMT13, a new series, to its AMT incremental encoder family designed to support larger motor shaft sizes from 9 mm to 15.875 mm (5/8 inch). The AMT13, based on CUI’s proprietary capacitive ASIC technology, brings the same levels of durability, accuracy, and immunity to environmental particulates as current AMT encoder models. Ideally suited for a variety of robotics, industrial, and automation applications, the series offers 22 programmable resolutions from 48 to 4096 PPR, CMOS voltage or differential line driver outputs, and low current consumption of 16 mA at 5 V. Available in…
Continuously variable automatic transmissions are used in both fuel-powered and partially electrically powered vehicles. In studying the growing market for hybrid vehicles, the IHS market researchers forecast a 4% increase in their global market share from 15% today to 19% in 2023. BUDERUS Schleiftechnik, manufacturer of multi-functional hard fine machining equipment,has specialised in making highly accurate CVT components.Based on its grinding technologies, the DVS affiliate focuses on core components of continuously variable transmissions, and pairs of taper discs in particular, which meet very strict surface quality and production cost requirements. And all of this in one single setup. Especially in…
Coping efficiently with new challenges in parts cleaning is of ever more importance for all manufacturers aiming to stay competitive. parts2clean puts them in touch with all the latest trends, solutions and expertise they need to stay ahead of the competition. The leading international trade fair for industrial parts and surface cleaning, parts2clean puts them in touch with all the latest trends, solutions and expertise they need to stay ahead of competition. It runs from 22 October to 24 October, 2019 in Stuttgart. Parts2clean is the world’s biggest technology showcase for consistently reliable and efficient parts cleaning,” said Olaf Daebler,…
The 14th ENGIMACH, to be held from December 4 to 8, 2019, strives to go a step ahead of its previous editions. Products, processes, technology, emerging innovations, active participation of national and international companies, knowledge exchange with world leaders ample investment opportunities,business tie-ups and much more will be the highlights of the event. The focus sectors this year include machine tools & machine tool accessories, automation & robotics, tooling systems, hydraulics and pneumatics,pumps & valves, fasteners & hardware, automobile, enabled services, electrical & electronics, fabrication & welding, SPMS & pipe technology among others. Scheduled to be organized at a world…
DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT reported a high level of steady business development in the first six months of 2019 despite an increasingly difficult market environment. As planned, order intake achieved € 1,412.3 million (-10%; previous year: € 1,577.1 million). Sales revenues hiked by 5% to € 1,276.4 million (previous year: € 1,215.1 million). EBIT increased by 11% to € 103.4 million (previous year: € 93.0 million). The EBIT margin improved to 8.1% (previous year: 7.7%). Free cash flow rose by 22% to € 81.9 million (previous year: € 67.2 million).“The first half of the year went well for DMG MORI –…