August 13, 2006 Siemens VDO engineers are working on plans to integrate the drivetrain, steering, shock absorbers and brakes directly into the wheels of future cars. This concept, called eCorner, is ...

(Bloomberg) — Japan’s Nidec Corp. and private equity firm KPS Capital Partners are competing to acquire Siemens AG’s Innomotics large motors business, which could fetch about €3 billion ($3.3 billion) ...

It is an engineering truism that there is no such thing as a perfect solution—just the best solution for the problem at hand. That holds particularly true for servo motors and stepper motors. Both are ...

It’s tough to make a splash in a business as mature as AC electric industrial motors. But that’s exactly what Siemens, the German-based industrial giant, is hoping to do with a new line of ...

MUNICH, Germany — Siemens announces the immediate availability of the SIMOTICS SD200 severe-duty motor in frame size 440 as its latest offering in the low-voltage SIMOTICS motor family. Providing high ...

The primary feature of stepper motors is listed right within their name: their ability to ‘step’ forwards and backwards, something which they (ideally) can do perfectly in sync with the input provided ...

The stock market can be unforgiving. Shareholders of Siemens Ltd were upset after the company announced the sale of its low voltage (LV) motors and geared motors businesses to an arm of its German ...

Researchers at Siemens have created a new prototype electric motor specifically designed for aircraft that weighs in at just 50 kg (110 lb) and is claimed to produce about 260 kW (348 hp) at just ...

Step motors provide accurate position control without the need for feedback, traditionally in open-loop control schemes. A stepper motor’s shaft normally makes discrete angular movements of ...

The [Denki Otaku] YouTube channel took a look recently at some stepper motors, or ‘stepping motors’ as they’re called in Japanese. Using a 2-phase stepper motor as an example, the stepper motor is ...