Machine Building

HBM offers cloud-based structural health monitoring packages

HBM is announcing its capabilities of offering complete customised, end-to-end cloud-based structural health monitoring (SHM) packages. The packages include all associated hardware, software, installation, and monitoring requirements, along with cloud-based data access for each customer.

25th September 2017

Free data security webinar for engineers and developers

Mouser Electronics will host a special one-hour webinar on data security on September 27 at 11 a.m. CDT. Data Security: Think Like a Hacker will address the very latest in cyberthreats, precautions, challenges, solutions and safeguards. Registration is now open at mou.sr/anitianweb.

25th September 2017

Procter Bros apprentice shortlisted for prestigious EEF award

Rae Goman, a talented apprentice working for Procter Bros Ltd, based in Caerphilly, has been shortlisted for a prestigious regional apprentice award as part of the EEF Future Manufacturing Awards 2017.

24th September 2017

Mitsubishi show human-orientated machine operation at EMO 2017

Mitsubishi Electric is providing a glimpse of the future with human-orientated monitoring and training for CNC-machines at EMO 2017, using smart devices offering direct integration with machine control systems. Developed as a pilot project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT, the demonstration on the Mitsubishi Electric stand shows how smart tablets and smart glasses can be used as the user-interface with a CNC controller on a 5-axis CNC machine to support the user on a new digital level.

22nd September 2017

Girls get into STEM engineering at Renishaw

Renishaw has hosted a series of Girls into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) engineering days in June, 2017 at its Miskin site in South Wales. These three activity days for local school girls, on June 19th, 22nd and 29th, aimed to inspire the female engineers of the future with hands-on activities and provided an introduction to career opportunities in the sector.

22nd September 2017

Insights: Performance monitoring for Universal Robots

The Robotiq team just launched Insights, a web application that measures Universal Robots performance. Insights gives a real-time view of the robot's key performance indicators in operation.

22nd September 2017

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group at PPMA 2017

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group will present highlights from its broad range of positive displacement pumps and liquid filling technologies at the 2017 PPMA Exhibition. Visitors to Stand G56 will see at first hand a range of products and solutions from three distinct parts of the Group:

21st September 2017

Online course 'Risk Assessment 101' for machine builders

Compliance inSight Consulting says its new online training course for machinery risk assessments provides 'Everything You Need to Know about Risk Assessment.' The following topics are covered in the 12-week Risk Assessment 101 course:

21st September 2017

One week to go until the biggest PPMA Show in 12 years

In just one week, more than 350 exhibitors representing 1500 brands will descend on the NEC, Birmingham for the biggest PPMA Show in 12 years. Taking place from 26-28 September 2017, co-located with Interplas, TCT show and Sensors and Instrumentation, the PPMA Show 2017 promises to deliver insights into the latest machinery products, technologies and materials, building on its reputation as the UK's unmissable, free-to-attend processing and packaging machinery exhibition.

20th September 2017

John Clarke is new Spelsberg Area Sales Manager for West region

Spelsberg UK is supporting its continued growth with the appointment of John Clarke as Area Sales Manager for the West region. John's recruitment is the latest in a series of appointments that has grown the external and internal sales teams in response to growing demand from new and existing customers for customised enclosures at industry-beating lead times.

20th September 2017