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Bodine Electric at Automate 2026

Bodine Electric Company exhibited at the Automate trade show in Chicago at McCormick Place on Monday, June 22, through Thursday, June 25. Automate, North America’s largest robotics and automation event, celebrated its most successful show to date. The 2026 show marked the 10th Automate event and featured 1,230 exhibitors drawing more than 50,000 registrants. Our

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EASA Conference Spotlights Motor Industry

EASA Conference Spotlights Motor Industry

The Electrical Apparatus Service Association, Inc. (EASA) is an international trade organization of more than 1700 electromechanical sales and service firms in nearly 70 countries. Many of Bodine Electric Company’s authorized distributors and service centers are members of the organization. EASA held their annual convention in Orlando, Florida from June 13 through June 16, 2026. Bodine

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Bodine Electric’s Spring Sales Meeting

Bodine Electric Company held their 2026 Spring Sales Meeting in Iowa last week, from Monday, May 18, through Wednesday, May 20. The meeting began at Bodine’s headquarters in Peosta, Iowa where our sales team got updates from our manufacturing team on various continuous improvement projects. This was followed by a tour of Bodine’s main factory

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Bodine Electric Names New President

Bodine Electric Names New President

Please join us in congratulating Jeff Bodine on his retirement as President of Bodine Electric Company effective April 10th, 2026. Jeff has been with the family-owned company for almost 48 years, serving as president since 2017. When announcing his retirement, Jeff stated, “When I first walked through Bodine’s doors more than five decades ago, I

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Motors & Magnets Discussed at MDSM

Motors & Magnets Discussed at MDSM

Terry Auchstetter, Director of Marketing & Product Development at Bodine Electric Company, attended the 2026 Motor, Drive Systems & Magnetics Conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee on March 4 & 5. Auchstetter has now attended this conference five times and noted that the presentations each year, whether intentionally or not, have an overarching theme.

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Bodine Electric at MD&M West 2026

Bodine Electric at MD&M West 2026

Bodine Electric Company exhibited for the second time at the MD&M West trade show in Anaheim, California from February 3 – 5, 2026. The show floor was divided into four areas of interest: Medical Design & Manufacturing, General Design & Manufacturing, Plastics, and Automation/Packaging. Bodine Electric chose to relocate from the Automation/Packaging area to the

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Bodine Electric Wins 2025 “Leadership in Engineering” Award

Each year for the last 19 years, beginning in 2007, Design World magazine has celebrated outstanding manufacturers with their “Leadership in Engineering” awards. Nominees are announced each January and Design World readers are given the opportunity to vote online at any time during the year. There are currently 17 product categories and the winner in each category

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Bodine Wins Bronze in 2025 LEAP Awards

Design World’s Editor-in-Chief Rachael Pasini and Managing Editor Mike Santora presented the winners of the 2025 LEAP Awards on October 29, 2025 in an online broadcast. LEAP stands for Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program and the awards span four of the WTWH engineering brands: Design World, Fluid Power World, Engineering.com and EE World. The winners

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Bodine Electric at Motion Automation Summit

Bodine Electric at Motion Automation Summit

Bodine Electric Company participated in the Motion Automation Summit at Motion’s headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. While the event spanned the whole week for the approximately 30 product specialists at Motion, Bodine’s participation was limited to Wednesday, October 1, only. Mike Gschwind (VP of Sales & Marketing), Scott Seeley (Customer Service & Distribution Channel Manager), and

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Put an Encoder on it!

Put an Encoder on it!

I contributed a column for the June 2025 issue of Tech Brief’s Motion Design supplement about putting encoders on motors. Titled “Encoders on Motors Fix Motion Disorders”, the column summarized several options for adding an encoder to a motor. For this blog article, I created an extended version of that column that includes additional photos,

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