Richard Vaughn, automation engineering manager at Bosch Rexroth, said the emergence of electric vehicles (EV) creates interesting opportunities for the actuator market. “I see it playing real heavily already, actually, and it's on the starting side, the battery manufacturing that goes into the EVs,” Vaughn told Power & Motion. “That's an area where there's a lot of linear actuators being utilized right now, and it's anything that's a simple single axis all the way up to more complex multi axis systems and working together as they go and then on the other end, the assembly of the vehicles themselves.”
Senior Content Director, Power & Motion and Machine Design
Bob Vavra is the Senior Content Director of Power & Motion and its sister publication Machine Design. Vavra has had a long career in publishing, media and events. He has covered all aspects of manufacturing for the past 20 years and is a regular attendee at events such as IMTS and Hannover Messe. Vavra is also a sought-after webcast moderator and event emcee, and has presided over events in the U.S., Germany and China.