MTC Training is set to expand into the North East with the launch of MTC Training Tyneside, a new training centre offering apprenticeships as well as upskilling and reskilling training programmes.

ReeR Safety's long-standing commitment to protecting people in industrial automation extends well beyond the design of its safety devices. The company has increasingly turned its attention to the environmental footprint of its own operations, examining everything from materials selection to logistics.

At Machine Building Live, SICK UK portfolio sales manager David Hannaby discusses the company's safety offering, including devices that provide intelligent muting. This enables businesses to optimise productivity while still assuring safety.

FANUC UK's vice managing director, Andy Armstrong, has highlighted the importance of sustainability and automation in driving a resilient, smart and globally competitive UK manufacturing sector.

Essentra has been recognised by CDP, the global environmental non-profit, for its leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change, forest and water security, securing a place on CDP's respected annual 'A' List.

Reducing energy consumption in industrial environments is today strategic imperative. Whether driven by cost, compliance, or climate goals, energy efficiency projects can deliver substantial returns. In this workshop presented at Machine Building Live, Lenze internal sales manager Connor Bing zooms in 10 top tips to ensure your next energy reduction initiative is a success.

New digital skills courses are aiming to help SME manufacturers in Yorkshire embrace and capitalise on AI to boost productivity and drive growth. Made Smarter Yorkshire & Humber is offering fully funded training to help companies develop leadership capability as advanced technologies become increasingly central to competitiveness and innovation.

PI (Physik Instrumente) released a new brochure introducing PI as a long-term OEM partner for cutting-edge solutions in semiconductor, photonics, laser processing, industrial automation, microscopy and life sciences applications.

In hot-dip coating plants, steel strips are coated with molten zinc, zinc alloys and aluminium alloys in a continuous process. Inductive eddy current sensors are used in electromagnetic systems for strip stabilisation. Due to the high speed of the belts, vibrations occur. To minimise this, electromagnetic stabilisation systems from market leader EMG are used, in which 10 to 16 EU40 inductive sensors from Micro-Epsilon are installed.

Due to strict compliance regulations, packaging for medical products must be correctly labeled before it is delivered to customers. Chinese company Shenzhen Jiangrun Xuneng Technology has developed a machine vision solution that automatically reads character codes using OCR. The heart of the application is the standard machine vision software MVTec HALCON.