To provide customers with the latest technology, WEG has expanded its operations to the Eastern Europe and southwestern Asia market with the opening of a new facility in Dilovasi, Kocaeli, Turkey.

When a meat processing plant operator needed a solution to check that transportation bins had been emptied prior to being sent to an automated wash station, it turned to Contrinex. An ultrasonic sensor mounted above a conveyor looks down into the bins and diverts contaminated bins from proceeding to the wash station.

See Copa-Data at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 64

At EMO Hannover, Kistler will present its solutions for cutting force measurement in development and production. While its rotating cutting force dynamometer (RCD) with a piezoelectric sensor simplifies R&D activities, the Piezo Tool System in combination with the maXYmos process monitoring system ensures optimised, transparent machining processes.

With unprecedented rising costs and global component shortages, Rittal understands your needs. Rittal is committed to providing you with reliable solutions that meet your demands, while ensuring a hassle-free experience.

Even the finest hairline cracks on engine components can lead to failures. That’s why components at MTU Aero Engines pass through an extensive crack testing facility provided by Rhode + Wagner Anlagenbau as part of their production process – a testing system that integrates the tamper-proof PITmode fusion safety solution from Pilz.

Festo is excited to be attending MachineBuilding.Live, highlighting its latest innovations in factory automation. Festo’s focus is on reducing your design and build times with its automation remote IO control architecture, valve terminals and servo drives.

Omron has set up a bespoke Skills-Up Safety Training program for selected European Omron Safety Solution Partners to ensure that they have the full and latest knowledge regarding all the safety aspects of industrial automation. One of the first companies to complete this training program is Tecno-Elèctric Girona (TEG), based in Spain.

SMC UK will be debuting its new Air Management System that it says saves thousands of pounds in electricity consumption at this year’s PPMA Show (Stand D70, NEC, Birmingham, 26-28 September).

Engineers from igus are now using a simple, in-house technology for heat recovery. It uses the waste heat from machinery to heat factories and industrial units, saving energy costs and CO2 emissions. Now igus has made the details of the technology available online to industrial companies, for free.