Machine Building

Free webinars offer a quick fix to keep skills up to date

As part of its latest series of free webinars, HBM invites participants to expand their skills and grow their knowledge. Designed to fit in with challenging time constraints, which can often make attending training courses difficult, HBM's November 2018 webinars will provide advice and focus on a variety of topics.

16th October 2018

PSIRT website supports IIoT security

Within the scope of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), network-based data transmission is becoming increasingly common. However, with the advantage of borderless communication there is also a greater risk of unauthorised access if appropriate precautions are not taken. Despite extensive experience and the utmost care being taken with all products, errors may occur during programming and these can result in security vulnerabilities. With this in mind, Phoenix Contact is one of the first companies to have established an international Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT).

16th October 2018

'Test drive' Rittal's Perforex machining centres

Rittal Perforex machining centres are a major advance for switchgear manufacturing. They are designed to automate the creation of bore holes, cut-outs and threads in mounting plates, enclosure doors and side panels. It means that the time-consuming and mechanical processing steps required for the preparation of enclosure panels can now be accomplished in a single work step to a very high degree of accuracy. The work can be simply programmed into the Perforex to be repeated multiple times for fast, effective batch processing.

15th October 2018

Major multinationals invest in autonomous machine vision

Leading multinational industrial companies from Germany and Switzerland have invested more than USD 10million into Inspekto. The company is the founder and developer of the Autonomous Machine Vision category - a visual system that allows manufacturers to set up, install and detect defects in production in minutes, without the help of any external experts or systems integrators. The start-up will meet the needs of a yearly multi-billion-dollar market across a broad range of vertical manufacturing sectors, including automotive and electronics.

15th October 2018

Pickering Switching Solutions to exhibit at ITC 2018

Pickering Switching Solutions, including Pickering Interfaces and Pickering Electronics, will exhibit at the International Test Conference, the world's premier event dedicated to testing of electronic devices, boards and systems from verification, test, diagnosis, failure analysis and process and design improvement, in Phoenix, Arizona. On booth 208, the company will showcase its high-density PXI and Ethernet LXI Switching & Simulation products along with Signal Routing Software, its 6U Modular Chassis and the world's smallest reed relays. Products highlighted include:

15th October 2018

Movie of the month

This month's video from Stemmer Imaging shows how a line-scan camera and telecentric lens are being used in a new type of surface inspection system.

15th October 2018

Improve product profitability and accelerate time to market

aPriori is supporting the Cost Insight conference in Amsterdam on 26/27 November 2018. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers and managers to learn how to improve product profitability while accelerating time to market. A detailed agenda will be available shortly but, meanwhile, key details are as follows:

13th October 2018

White paper outlines easy way to trial IoT and measure benefits

Adlink Technology has published a new white paper that describes how digital experimentation with the Internet of Things (IoT) leads to innovation. Entitled Culture of invention leads to IoT success, it looks at potential ways to create a clearer path to innovative IoT.

13th October 2018

Competition time! Engineering for People Design Challenge

Engineers Without Borders UK (www.ewb-uk.org) has launched the 2018-19 Engineering for People Design Challenge. The competition, which takes place across more than 30 Universities in the UK and Ireland, involves over 6500 engineering undergraduates and will help them develop their skills relating to how engineering can address real-world problems and how to communicate in an engaging way.

12th October 2018

White paper: the benefits of a Totex approach to project costing

A new guide from WEG shows how using a Totex (total expenditure) model when making investment decisions can help to reduce costs over the lifecycle of an asset, which offers significant long-term advantages compared with the conventional approach of purchasing from a capex (capital expenditure) budget and then paying the running costs out of an opex (operating expenditure) budget. While the WEG white paper focuses on the water industry, the Totex model will, at some point, surely become the preferred model when machinery and automation are being specified and purchased.

12th October 2018