With its unique concept, the SPS 2025 (Nuremberg, Germany) covers the entire spectrum of smart and digital automation – from simple sensors to intelligent solutions, from what is feasible today to the vision of a fully digitalized industrial world. The SPS is the highlight event of the automation industry. It is a source of inspiration and a platform for innovation. Topics include control technology, drive systems, components, software, sensors, industrial communication and more.
The 2025 EASA Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville took place in July 2025. The event focused on companies involved in the service and sale of electric motors, pumps, drives, controls, gearboxes and other rotating machinery. Highlights included market trends, economic outlook, harnessing AI, rotor testing, new motor technologies, supply chain and more.
RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, added two new suppliers to its portfolio — Automation Components, Inc. and Teltonika — further expanding its selection of high-quality, field-proven sensor and networking solutions optimized for today’s increasingly interconnected and automated industrial environments.
A broad line of standard and custom shaft collars, couplings, and mounting devices for building automation, robotics, and packaging equipment has been introduced by Stafford Manufacturing Corp. of Wilmington, MA.
Kollmorgen has introduced the new SFD-M (Smart Feedback Device, Multi-Turn). It allows machine builders to achieve high-resolution multi-turn feedback with absolute positioning information available at system startup.
The Timken Company recently announced that Christopher A. Coughlin, executive vice president and president, industrial motion, will retire at the end of the year after 41 years with the company.
Siemens’ annual event Realize LIVE Americas never fails to disappoint on the technology front. Automation, AI, IIoT, the Industrial Metaverse, additive manufacturing—you name the technology—Siemens has it covered. The factory of the future is no different. The company spends a great deal of time discussing smart manufacturing, analytics and services examining what a typical shop floor might look like in 15–20 years.
Applied Motion Products introduces the CPBD-A-C remote control module that connects to the back of the CSM34 Conveyor Smart Motor and can be mounted where conveyor operators can easily access it.
Atlanta now offers “digital” gear racks and a smartphone website that when used together can optimize the assembly of a multi gear rack system to minimize the cumulative pitch error and maximize positioning accuracy over the complete axis travel length.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will invest approximately 2.2 billion Indian rupees, or 3.1 billion yen, in its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. to establish a new factory in India. Expected to start operations in December 2023, the new factory will manufacture inverters and other factory automation (FA) control system products, expanding the company’s capabilities to meet the growing demand in India.