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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!

Author’s note: I contributed a column for the June 2025 issue of Tech Brief’s Motion Design supplement about putting encoders on motors. Because it was supposed to be a technical article, and not a sales pitch for Bodine Electric products, I had to keep the content “generic”. For our Bodine Blog, I created an extended



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120th Anniversary Celebration

On Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Bodine Electric Company held their 120th Anniversary Celebration at the company’s headquarters in Peosta, Iowa. Current and past employees from both the Peosta factory and the Northfield, Illinois factory – along with their family members – were invited to attend the event. Fun was had by all! Even in



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Introducing Ryan Powers

Join us in welcoming Ryan Powers to Bodine Electric’s Sales & Marketing Team. He is our new Territory Sales Engineer. Ryan comes to Bodine with over 17 years’ experience in B2B sales, primarily in the steel industry. In his previous positions, he worked directly with OEM customers that are similar to Bodine’s diverse customer and



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Bodine Wins Silver for 2024 LEAP Awards

2024 LEAP Awards by Design World Design World’s VP, Editorial Director Paul J. Heney and Executive Editor Lisa Eitel presented the winners of the 2024 LEAP Awards on October 30th, 2024, in an online broadcast. These brands cross four of the company’s design engineering brands: Design World, Fluid Power World, Engineering.com, and EE World. This year’s winners



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Bodine Electric Company Celebrates 115-Year Anniversary

More than a century ago, two Swedish immigrant brothers, Carl and Paul Bodine, recognized that industrial machinery required stronger, more reliable motors than those on the market. Our company was built on the principles of providing the highest quality gearmotor and motor solutions in the industry. 115 years later, our mission is still to deliver



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How to Connect a 3-Wire-Reversible 1-Phase PSC Gearmotor or Motor

In this How-To video, we explain how to connect and wire a run capacitor to one of our stock PSC (single-phase), 3-wire-reversible AC (fixed speed) gearmotors (type WX & FX). Permanent Split Capacitor (PSC) gearmotors require a run capacitor to be connected to the winding at all times. Copyright Bodine Electric Company © 03/2020. All



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