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Sierramotion acquired by Allient

Allient Inc. (formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc.) has acquired Sierramotion Inc., a privately-owned company specializing in designing and engineering turnkey motion components and mechatronic solutions for robotic, medical, industrial, defense, semiconductor, and other precision applications.

“Sierramotion excels at providing rapid product development, prototyping, and low-volume production to improve speed-of-play for its customers. As part of the Allient family, we see the potential to enhance these capabilities by providing larger scale production capabilities for Sierramotion customers by leveraging the Allient global manufacturing footprint,” comments Dick Warzala, Allient chairman and CEO.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Loomis, California, Sierramotion has experience and know-how designing and applying products in electro-mechanical systems with moving magnets or moving coils for rotary, linear, and arc shaped applications.

The company provides customized design and integration capabilities, testing, performance simulations, prototype development, and low-volume production for a variety of high precision and custom critical applications.

https://allient.com

ANSI/A3 R15.08-2 Safety Standard for IMRs

R15.08-2, the American National Standard for Industrial Mobile Robots (IMRs) - Safety Requirements – Part 2: Requirements for IMR system(s) and IMR application(s) is now available from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). This is the second installment of its safety standard for IMRs, providing safety requirements for deploying IMR systems into an industrial environment, specifying requirements for integrating, configuring, and customizing an IMR or fleet of IMRs into a site.

“With the rapid development of mobile robot capabilities, it’s more important than ever for the safety of human workers to have common safety requirements and expectations for IMR systems and system integrations,” says Carole Franklin, director of robotic standards development at A3. “The R15.08 Part 2 is much-needed guidance toward ensuring safe integration practices for IMRs and will be a solid foundation for future work in this area.”