SKF has closed its roller bearing manufacturing plant in Luton, UK, with loss of around 300 jobs, after more than a century ...

Siemens has announced a new version of its Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal, focusing on performance and efficiency enhancements, and supporting the company’s latest PLCs. Version 20 of the ...

ABB is buying Aurora Motors, the US-headquartered supplier of vertical pump motors, which has an engineering operation in Shanghai, China, and customers in 30 countries. Financial terms have not been ...

The German-headquartered bearings-maker Schaeffler has announced a series of moves designed to bolster its financial position which has been badly affected by the downturn in the automotive sector, as ...

WEG’s axial-flux motors allow users to downsize systems, cut costs and lower their carbon footprints The Brazilian motor-maker WEG has launched an axial-flux motor that will allow OEMs (original ...

Emerson Electric is offering $6.53bn for the 43% of the industrial software vendor AspenTech that it does not already own.

Siemens is buying the industrial simulation and analysis software developer Altair Engineering for around $10bn. It says the ...

Thousands of smaller UK manufacturers could benefit from a £16m expansion of the Made Smarter Adoption programme that the ...

SKF has teamed up with the machine tool manufacturer DMG Mori to use SKF’s Insight Super-precision bearing system to push the performance of machine tool spindles, while maintaining or improving their ...

The sensor-maker Sick has joined forces with the wireless IO-Link specialist CoreTigo to offer a series of plug-and-play IO-Link products that communicate wirelessly. Sick says the products will ...

Nidec Drives claims that it the first variable-speed drives manufacturer to offer a five-year warranty as standard across all of its drives, including high-performance and high-power ranges. It is now ...

Schneider Electric has dismissed its CEO Peter Herweck with immediate effect and replaced him with Olivier Blum “to accelerate the execution of its strategy and engage into the next phase of its ...