Machine Building

New machinery safety consultancy with decades of experience

Astute Machinery Consultants Ltd is a new business established by Les Young, an experienced specialist who has spent the last twelve years working for some of the biggest names in the world of machinery safety. Alongside Les Young is Bill Raine, one of the most respected people in the machinery safety sector. Bill Raine is a non-executive technical director at Astute and applies his skills when Astute is called upon to work with bespoke - and sometimes 'weird and wonderful' - machines that need assessing or certifying. The third member of the Astute team is Jim Davis, an Associate Consultant and Engineer. Jim Davies is a fully qualified industrial automation control and instrumentation engineer with over 20 years' experience with the paper, packaging and high-speed machinery.

7th June 2018

Southco earns UL Recognition Certification FTTA2/FTTA8

Southco, Inc. recently collaborated with UL to complete testing of a select portfolio of its hinge and latch products according to the newly released FTTA2/FTTA8 Recognition Certification, which evaluates these components' resistance to corrosion and performance degradation due to environmental conditions and usage over time.

6th June 2018

Yokogawa unveils OpreX brand for industrial automation portfolio

Yokogawa Electric Corporation is announcing OpreX, an all-new comprehensive brand for the company's industrial automation (IA) and control business. The OpreX brand name stands for excellence in the technology and systems that Yokogawa cultivates through the co-creation of value with its customers, and encompasses the entire range of the company's IA products and services. With the new OpreX brand, Yokogawa will deliver integrated systems that support a customer's transformation and growth through the lens of its business needs.

6th June 2018

Renishaw hosts event for International Women in Engineering Day

To encourage female secondary school students to pursue a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), Gloucestershire-based engineering company Renishaw is hosting an International Women in Engineering Day event at its New Mills headquarters. On Saturday June 23rd, 2018, students aged from 11 to 18, with their parents/guardians, are invited to visit Renishaw to learn more about the opportunities open to females in this exciting field.

5th June 2018

Free webinar: Alarm System Performance KPIs

M.A.C. Solutions is hosting an educational webinar on "˜Alarm System Performance KPIs' on 13 June 2018. The webinar session will be hosted by Lieven Dubois, Principal Consultant at Manage4U and an international authority on alarm management. To register to attend the webinar, please visit www.processvue.com.

1st June 2018

Movie of the month

Watch this video from Burkert to see how an all-in-one controller, sensors and valve reduces operating costs and improves productivity for pneumatic conveying.

31st May 2018

IDS delivers its millionth camera

1,000,000 - a figure of particular importance for IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH this year. Only three years after the production of the 500,000th camera, the company delivers the millionth IDS camera in the second quarter of 2018: a milestone that confirms the visionary strategy of the people of Obersulm.

31st May 2018

Co-founder and CTO of Universal Robots wins Engelberger Award

The American Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has announced Esben Østergaard, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Universal Robots, as the recipient of the Engelberger Robotics Award 2018. Østergaard spearheads the development of Universal Robots' collaborative robot arms, representing one of the most significant technology breakthroughs coming out of the robotics community in decades. The Engelberger Awards Dinner and Ceremony will be held at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany as part of Automatica 2018 and the International Symposium on Robotics.

31st May 2018