Machine Building

How high-performance polymer parts are used in utility vehicles

igus has produced a short video showing how utility vehicles, including buses, telescopic loaders and commercial good vehicles, have to withstand very tough working conditions and need to work reliably even in bad weather. igus makes this possible with its energy chains, chainflex cables, linear systems and polymer plain bearings that are characterised by their outstanding resilience and long service life.

23rd January 2019

Renishaw: official partner of Cardiff Blues Community Foundation

To continue the success of Renishaw's education outreach programme, the global engineering company has become an official partner of the Cardiff Blues Community Foundation. The three-year partnership will see the Guinness PRO14 rugby club's community team deliver a new secondary school programme to raise the aspirations of year 8 and 9 pupils in the local area.

22nd January 2019

ID and traceability at Southern Manufacturing and Electronics

Pryor Marking Technology will be displaying its range of identification and traceability products at the Southern Manufacturing Show. Visitors to the show will be able to view three of the company's latest marking products as well as discuss marking systems, traceability and tracking software; be it for integration within existing operations, portable equipment or bespoke designs.

16th January 2019

Nord Drivesystems at the Tire Technology 2019

At Tire Technology 2019 in Hannover from 5 to 7 March 2019, Nord Drivesystems will present safe and efficient drives for the tyre industry. Among other products, the North German drive specialists will be showing its LogiDrive systems, special extruder flanges and the NORD SK TU4-PNS PROFIsafe interface module.

16th January 2019

New large-scale coiling machine for European Springs & Pressings

Exploding in to the New Year, European Springs & Pressings, supported by their parent company Lesjofors, have invested 1 million euros in a new spring coiling machine, the first of its kind in the UK. The Wafios FUL166 is one of the latest large-scale, high-end spring coiling machines to come out of Wafios's German based powerhouse and European Springs & Pressings are one of only two manufacturers in the world to have one.

10th January 2019

Renishaw celebrates 40th anniversary of apprenticeships

Renishaw is recruiting for a record 68 apprentices across its Gloucestershire and South Wales sites. The 2019 intake will be the 40th round of apprentices to join Renishaw, which has taken apprentices every year since 1979. Applications for a range of roles including engineering, software, embedded electronic design and development, and IT are now open until Friday March 1st, 2019.

7th January 2019

Free white paper: A Machine Builder's Guide to CAN-bus

Control Technologies UK has published a new white paper, A Machine Builder's Guide to CAN-bus. This 15-page illustrated white paper is a 'must' for anyone in the fields of machine building, mobile machinery or factory automation who is considering using CAN-bus or who has recently embarked on a CAN-bus project for the first time.

21st December 2018

Digital technologies to optimise cutting and welding operations

To help fabricators and manufacturers drive continuous improvement in traceability, documentation, asset management, productivity and quality, ESAB Welding & Cutting Products demonstrated its new ESAB Digital Solutions platform at EuroBLECH which took place in Hannover, Germany.

21st December 2018

Schaeffler, CMBlu to develop larg"scale energy storage systems

CMBlu Projekt AG and Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG have announced the signing of a joint development agreement (JDA) to cooperate in the production of larg"scale energy storage systems. Over the past five years, CMBlu - in collaboration with research groups from German universities - has developed the novel and renewable Organic Flow Storage Technology for power grids up to prototype scale. On this basis, Schaeffler and CMBlu will jointly develop and industrialise commercial products to be marketed by CMBlu. The goal of both partners is to make a substantial contribution to a secure, efficient and sustainable power supply worldwide.

20th December 2018

New e-book from Mouser and Texas Instruments is about op amps

Mouser Electronics and Texas Instruments (TI) have published an e-book dedicated to the versatility and design power of operational amplifiers (op amps). In the e-book, titled Amplifier Solutions that Answer a Range of Design Needs, Mouser and TI experts delve into the many uses for the chips in the analogue signal chain.

20th December 2018