- Toshiba closes its UK automation office 01 April, 2000
- Fenner sells its hydraulic arm to SPX for £40m 01 April, 2000
- Meiden slashes its inverter prices 01 April, 2000
- Briggs & Stratton puts Lynch motor into mass production 01 April, 2000
- One encoder disc fits all applications 01 April, 2000
- Digital servo targets cam profiling 01 April, 2000
- Inductive position sensor challenges potentiometers 01 April, 2000
- Industrial PC offers deterministic "slot PLC" 01 April, 2000
- Yaskawa enters the 1.5-axis motion market 01 April, 2000
- WorldFIP sees its future on the Net 01 April, 2000
- Swedes shrink servomotors `by more than two thirds` 01 April, 2000
- ABB will sell only highest efficiency motors 01 April, 2000
- IEC field bus standard `infringes patents` 01 April, 2000
- Tip-driven fan is `twice as efficient` 01 April, 2000
- Toshiba and GE form drives joint venture 01 April, 2000
- Rockwell buys machine monitoring specialist Entek 01 April, 2000
- Dana sells bulk of Warner Electric to Colfax 01 April, 2000
- Denison buys Valmet hydraulic motors for £10.5m 01 April, 2000
- Omron and Rockwell join forces 01 April, 2000
- Key suppliers `preparing to back Lonworks` 01 April, 2000