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CNC WEST February/March 2018 www.CNC-West.com 57 Industry News According to Huegin, “Ross did a great job and will be missed, but we’re excited that John will lead our efforts in a very important region for Pferd, the West area of the U.S. He brings organizational and leadership skills to solidify our working relationships with both customers and prospects alike.” Heidenhain Acquires AMO Recently, Heidenhain acquired AMO, an Austrian specialty encoder company. This recent acquisition has resulted in the AMO sales operations and products to be coordinated at Heidenhain Corporation in the U.S. for North America. AMO encoder production and engineering will re- main in Austria. AMO is well known for meeting the precision feedback requirements in applications where high resolution is needed, particularly in highly con- taminated machine environments, such as in automation, medical, & semicon- ductor applications, as well as some metal forming, bending, and manual machine tool applications. The AMO encoders are inductive based, and can survive many types of rough environments including cool- ants, slurries, heavy dust particles, high vibration and still maintain accuracy and high resolution. AMO offers both linear and angular encoders available with many lengths and diameters. TheAMO linear encod- ers come in an exposed kit style, or bearing-guided versions. The angular encoders are produced with either a thin tape with no joining seam or a drum type where both allow for easy installation onto various sized shafts. The encoders are available in absolute versions with Biss C, Fanuc, Mitsubi- shi, Yaskawa, and EnDat interfaces, and incr emental versions with 1 Vpp & TTL. Cincinnati Incorporated Acquires New Valence Robotics Corporation Cincinnati Incorporated (“CI”) and New Valence Robotics Corporation (“NVBOTS”) announced in Decem- ber the closing of CI’s acquisition of NVBOTS. All employees of NVBOTS will be retained and the base of opera- tions will remain in Boston, MAfor the foreseeable future. Other terms of the C M Y CM MY CY CMY K CNC WEST-FEB-MAR 2018-CGTech-PRINT.pdf 1 1/30/2018 1:39:35 PM