On November 2-6, Science, Technology and Innovation Week was held, organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV) in all three Basque capital cities (Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastián). Workshops, scientific stands, educational itineraries, exhibitions, contests, samples, excursions, guided tours and much more were all part of the 16th edition of Science Week.
Fagor Automation collaborates in two open houses organized by the Intaima Group
Fagor Automation has collaborated in two open houses organized by the Intaima Group (Taiwan) in Mexico City and Stuttgart.
The Intaima Group is currently made up by three Taiwanese companies: L&L, Jainnher and Millstart. This alliance of companies has been created to promote the development of the companies in the areas of R&D, production and sales and marketing.
José Pérez Berdud, new CEO of Fagor Automation
Following the retirement of Pedro Ruíz de Aguirre after 8 years in the position, Jóse Pérez Berdud has been chosen to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer of Fagor Automation, as of July 1, 2016.
Power-OM Project Completed
After four years of research, the Power-OM project, led by the IK4-Tekniker center, is complete, having featured the participation of Fagor Automation and others. The companies that make up this consortium are Goratu (Basque Country), Artis (Germany), Predict (France), Monition Limited (United Kingdom), and the Luleå University of Technology (Sweden).
Presentation of Fagor Automation in the Marinha Grande Development Center (Portugal)
Last June, a presentation was held on the new features of Fagor Automation’s CNC 8065M and Industry 4.0 of was held in the CDRSP Marinha Grande Development Center, in Portugal.
Fagor Automation’s Android mobile app is now available
Fagor Automation has developed a mobile app for instant access to all the information on its products and services.
The company tasked with designing the interface was Irontec, one of the Basque Country’s free software and open source pioneers. Simple browsing was the priority on designing the app interface, which was developed using the Ionic framework, ideal for HTML5 developments in record time.
FATIMA Project led by AOTEK
The Basque Government has approved the FATIMA Project, which, within the ELKARTEK call, leads AOTEK, the corporate R&D unit of Fagor Automation, in cooperation with the IDEKO and ETIC technology centers and the MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY.
The free Fagor Automation simulator at the CNC championship in Valencia
The first Valencia Autonomous Vocational Training CNC Championship was held last February at the IES Molí del Sol, in Mislata (Valencia) and Fagor Automation was one of the partner companies at the event.
Fagor Automation, Reborn project’s official partner
Fagor Automation is involved in the ReBorn European project, as end user to demonstrate the project developments. This consortium consists of 17 partners from around Europe and is working to demonstrate strategies and technologies that support a new paradigm for the re-use of production equipment in factories.
Large spring with CNC 8070
USTB HEXING TECHNOLOGY CO. designs and manufactures special machines for making large springs that are used for high speed trains, subways, large construction machinery etc.
They have manufactured about 30 spring machines so far and they are all equipped with Fagor CNCs (most of them with CNC 8037).
Checkmate with Fagor CNCs
This time, the students from 1PFM (Higher Technician in Mechanical Production programming) of the IMH (Machine Tool Institute) in Elgoibar (Spain) have given us this chess board that they have created as their final project of their first academic year.