Motion Control Products (MCP) has introduced a machine-building solution with integrated IoT functionality, designed to streamline and enhance equipment management and operations across various applications.

Greaves 3D Engineering builds collapsible simulator with 45 igus components such as maintenance-free drylin linear and drive technology.

MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, SICK UK's Charlie Walker, digital solutions consultant, and David Hannaby, market product manager, look at how sensors provide the foundation for the next step in the digital journey.

Emerson will exhibit its latest Floor to Cloud packaging solutions at PACK EXPO Chicago. Advancing the boundless future of automation, Emerson factory automation solutions and its Floor to Cloud approach empower smarter packaging lines and more efficient processes that make it possible for manufacturers to continuously improve plant productivity, sustainability and safety.

New research by ABB, in collaboration with Sapio Research, has surveyed nearly 2,400 global businesses to gain insight into the state of the market around energy efficiency, sustainability, digitalisation, and the key role played by electric motors.

Three large, travelling-column bed mills at the Swansea factory of subcontractor Afon Engineering have been retrofitted with a Heidenhain TNC 320 control and new drives to improve their reliability and performance.

In times of great challenges, it is crucial for machine manufacturers to strengthen their resilience and develop new competitive advantages. At SPS in Nuremberg, Lenze will be showcasing solutions that OEMs can use to sustainably increase their productivity and efficiency despite a lack of resources, IT expertise, high costs and pressure to innovate.

Rubix has obtained an EcoVadis gold medal for the third year in a row. This reflects the company's continuing progress on environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics.

In a secondary packaging operation, bags of products like confectionery are often 'shingled', a process of layering them into a cardboard shipping box in alternating overlapped layers. Photoelectric sensors with background-suppression from Contrinex have provided a reliable means of checking the correct quantity of bags in each box.

Nabtesco's high-tech gears guarantee dynamic, pin-point motions and enable substantial cost optimisation in combination with increased performance. Nabtesco will demonstrate this technology in action at SPS in Nuremberg from 12-14 November, 2024.