Machine Building

Procter apprentice wins Learner of the Year award

Ryan Williams-Griffiths, an Apprentice Press Operator at Procter Machine Guarding, has been named Learner of the Year in the Warehousing/PMO & BIT category at ACT's Apprenticeship Awards 2017.

17th November 2017

Diamond Electronics at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Show

Diamond Electronics will be featuring a wide range of dishwasher safe, antimicrobial coated, easy to clean keyboards at the 2018 Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition. The keyboards and accessories are intended for use with clean industrial applications including food processing, semiconductor manufacturing, laboratories, POS systems, public area data input and control and clinical and home use medical systems.

17th November 2017

How the new drylin SHT configurator can help save the day

igus has produced a short video that shows how the drylin SHT configurator can be used to specify linear actuators quickly and easily.

16th November 2017

New Yaskawa mobile apps & wizards

Yaskawa is releasing two new mobile apps, Drive Wizard Mobile and the Yaskawa Manual App which eliminate the need for carrying a PC or printed manuals. The Drive Wizard app simplifies set-up, monitoring and diagnosis of the GA700 range of drives while the Manual Reader provides users with full access to the latest GA700 manuals via a mobile device.

15th November 2017

Renishaw, Identify3D collaborate on secure digital manufacturing

Renishaw and Identify3D are announcing a collaboration to offer an end-to-end, secure digital manufacturing process. Identify3D will provide data protection coupled with contractual and manufacturing licensing from design to production on Renishaw AM systems. By choosing to secure all digital data in the engineering phase, the technology enables users of Renishaw systems to protect their digital intellectual property (IP), enforce production rules and provide traceability in the digital supply chain at the industry's highest standard.

15th November 2017

ABB earns Frost & Sullivan 2017"Ž Company of the Year Award

ABB is named Frost & Sullivan's 2017 Company of the Year thanks to its visionary innovation embodied by its distributed control system (DCS) offering and its impact on customer performance. The award recognises ABB's digital leadership, not only when compared with other industrial automation suppliers, but also against non-industry peers. The award highlights how ABB meets customer needs for improved performance in tough market conditions, at a time when process and power industries' production assets have never been larger or more complex.

15th November 2017

Submersible connections from Hylec at LuxLive

Hylec-APL is exhibiting its connection systems for the lighting industry on Stand B2 at LuxLive, Europe's biggest lighting event. Stunning lighting demands robust, safe and reliable connections - Hylec offers connector systems for internal and external applications, including IP68-rated, completely submersible underwater connectors and the UK's original, first completely tool-free terminal block.

14th November 2017

Panduit to exhibit at SPS IPC Drives exhibition 2017

Panduit will be exhibiting at SPS IPC Drives exhibition 2017 from 28th to 30th November in Nuremberg, Germany in Hall 10.0 on Stand 630. At Europe's leading exhibition for electric automation, Panduit will be showing its Industrial Solutions that simplify robust network and IIoT deployment. These products help customers develop, enhance and care for a future-ready plant infrastructure to reduce uncertainty and increase productivity, profitability and reliability. Visitors can learn and find out if their infrastructure is ready for Industry 4.0.

14th November 2017

Intelliconnect now a member of the British Cryogenics Council

Intelliconnect (Europe) Ltd has become a member of the British Cryogenics Council in order to extend the market reach of its cryogenic cables and components and to participate in the rapid development of this growing field.

14th November 2017

Rockwell invests in AI for industrial automation

Rockwell Automation today announced its investment in The Hive, a Silicon Valley innovation fund and co-creation studio, to gain access to an ecosystem of innovators and technology start-ups with a focus on applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to industrial automation.