Testing aerospace fuel pumps requires highly controlled environments that replicate real-world operating conditions, while also meeting strict hazardous-area compliance requirements. Beckhoff helped Futura Systems develop a flexible test rig platform capable of supporting multiple pump variants within a single architecture.

Charcroft Electronics has been named Channel Partner of the Year by Sensata Technologies, after achieving the highest percentage growth in industrial components of all Sensata distributors across Europe.

Camozzi Automation UK has announced dates for the rest of the year for its Safety & Energy Saving Course in Pneumatics. This one day course provides focused pneumatic safety training and practical methods for improving pneumatic system energy efficiency.

Technidrive has expanded its offering with the integration of WEG's programmable logic controllers (PLCs), including the PLC500 series, to help customers simplify automation projects and maintain reliable control in demanding operating environments.

The updated IEC 60034-30-1:2025 standard has introduced IE5 as a defined motor efficiency classification, giving manufacturers, engineers and end users a clearer benchmark for specifying high-efficiency motors. WEG is supporting customers through the transition with an application-led portfolio that includes motors capable of meeting or exceeding IE5 efficiency levels, alongside engineering support to assess compatibility, payback and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Europe is leaning harder on food imports at the exact moment those imports face tighter compliance checks. Supply chain visibility and regulatory readiness have converged into a single challenge, one that next-generation industrial intelligence is now equipped to solve, says Neil Smith, CPG President, Schneider Electric.

Machine vision offers a wide range of opportunities to support automation. An exciting use case in which the technology delivers significant added value can be found at the Swiss company Endress+Hauser, with machine vision software from MVTec.

Regal Rexnord has announced a strategic collaboration with robotics and automation leader FANUC to deliver a fully integrated collaborative robotics solution that combines expertise from many of its brands.

Mark your diary. On Wednesday 14th October, MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live land side by side at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park, for one jam-packed day of industrial automation insight. The event is free to attend for machine builders, systems integrators and manufacturing professionals.

Mouser Electronics is highlighting how its AI and Power Management Resource Hubs combine to help engineers address the central challenge in industrial edge AI deployment: designing power architectures that can reliably sustain production-grade inference at the edge.