Machine Building

myNORD customer portal speeds drive selection

Nord Gear is promoting its myNORD customer portal, which is described as efficient, transparent and available 24/7 at www.mynord.com. Customers can configure and order drive products online from the standard Nord Drivesystems portfolio (gear units, motors, drive electronics).

1st August 2019

Free guide to EPDM versus silicone

Responding to customer feedback, Essentra Components offer a simple guide to help clear up confusion over the use of EPDM vs. Silicone. So, what is the difference and when should one be used over the other?

1st August 2019

Exhibition of the month

If you are thinking of attending Northern Manufacturing and Electronics as an exhibitor or visitor, find out more with our show preview.

31st July 2019

FANUC to launch new robots at EMO 2019

FANUC will be sharing the knowledge garnered from over 590,000 industrial robot installations at EMO 2019, with a series of on-stand demonstrations profiling the easy integration of robots into a wide range of industrial applications.

31st July 2019

Mouser signs global distribution agreement with Wilcoxon

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies, an Amphenol company, to distribute its brand of Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies vibration monitoring and sensing products. A trusted brand since the 1960s, Wilcoxon has a strong legacy of success in vibration monitoring. Companies and organisations across many industries depend on Wilcoxon to meet their application requirements for the highest quality, reliability, and best value in vibration monitoring products.

31st July 2019

Mouser signs global distribution agreement with Formerica

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Formerica Optoelectronics, a provider of optical interconnect products. Using innovative technologies that offer higher energy efficiency, greater reliability, and superior performance, the Formerica portfolio consists of a broad range of optical transceivers, active optical cables (AOC)/fanouts, optical bypass modules (OBM), fiber channel products, and serial digital interface (SDI) transceivers.

31st July 2019

Schneider: founding member of ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance

Schneider Electric has joined the newly formed ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance as a Founding Member. The International Society of Automation (ISA) created the Global Cybersecurity Alliance to advance cybersecurity readiness and awareness in worldwide manufacturing and critical infrastructure facilities and processes. Bringing together end-user companies, technology and systems vendors, IT infrastructure vendors, services providers, system integrators and other organisations, the Alliance will proactively address growing and emerging cyber threats.

30th July 2019

Kawasaki Robotics is finalist in Plastics Industry Awards 2019

Warrington-based Kawasaki Robotics has been shortlisted as a finalist in the prestigious Plastics Industry Awards 2019. The news comes following the success of an innovative robot installation at UK moulders SynthoTec, who are using a Kawasaki robot to boost production of plastic bearing cages. Unusually, SynthoTec chose to install and commission the new robot unit itself, rather than follow the traditional path of having either an integrator or the robot supplier themselves do it for them.

30th July 2019

Stemmer Imaging and MVTec co-operate in UK and Ireland

Stemmer Imaging AG and MVTec Software GmbH are expanding their co-operation for the distribution of Halcon and Merlic machine vision software to include the United Kingdom and Ireland. This will take effect from 1st September 2019, and further builds on the current distribution agreement between the two companies which already covers 14 European countries.

30th July 2019

Insight into Sick's Industry 4.0 smart sensors factory at PPMA

Sick is inviting PPMA Total Show visitors to gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into its new Industry 4.0 smart sensor production facility in Freiburg, Southern Germany.

30th July 2019