An automotive manufacturer uses simple, low-cost inductive sensors from Contrinex to provide a robust and reliable system of identifying the product variant of a vehicle body as it enters an assembly area.

The Workshop Programme at MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, was expanded to include a series of Machinery Safety Masterclass talks. Here, David Dearden, director at Euchner UK, explores a case study from a major retailer's distribution centre, highlighting improvements from electronic key exchange systems and networked safety hardware.

MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, Matthew Harris, business development manager at Lenze UK, unveils a new motor driven roller technology that could address key challenges in conveying and logistics.

CC Link Partner Association (CLPA), will be showing its industry leading open industrial Ethernet technology CC-Link IE TSN at this year's SPS fair in Nuremberg, Germany from 12-14 November, 2024 on stand 5-108.

Nidec Drives has deployed an automated solution to overcome the complexities of manual handling at its Newtown manufacturing site. In particular, variable speed drives have proved pivotal to the installation of a new conveyor system.

Textile handling machines push the boundaries of speed and precision, making a fit with the speed, precision, long range and reliability of Contrinex's analogue Inductive sensors. The sensor's accuracy of a few microns is used to measure the small changes in the position of a 'dancer' roller or 'follower', which tracks the fabric web's position and so indicates the web's tension.

WEG has agreed to form a collaborative partnership with Applied Maintenance Technology (AMT) to promote and use its wireless WEGscan monitoring system in the UK.

The Workshop Programme at MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, was expanded to include a series of Machinery Safety Masterclass talks. Here, Jason Reed, account manager at Pilz, speaks on keeping machinery safe in a digital world, offering advice on protecting industrial automation and control systems against manipulation and keeping them secure from the outside world.

Producing several million sustainable beverage cans per hour across its European plants, a can manufacturer needed to avoid unplanned machine downtime. Turning to Schaeffler's OPTIME condition monitoring solution has helped to prevent 360 hours of downtime.

The introduction of a long-term industrial strategy is set to bring a surge of offshore manufacturing production back to the UK according to a major annual survey on the investment landscape for UK industry published today by Make UK and RSM UK.