When the Central Organisation for Radioactive Waste (COVRA) in the Netherlands was looking to upgrade its safety systems with a digital access management solution to replace mechanical keys and simplify processes, it turned to Pilz.

SIGMATEK Automation business development manager, Ross Fenion, discusses the company's standard automation range, motion controllers, HMIs and I/O slices, as well as the company's capability to custom design bespoke systems to meet individual requirements.

FLIR will partner with sister brand Teledyne TapTone and its patented range of inspection equipment at the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry: Drinktec 2025. The pair will demonstrate how machine builders and integrators can help beverage plants take their production and quality performance to the next level.

Tom Parker sales manager, Seb Cole, highlights the key brands from around the world for which the company is a UK distributor. The company represents over 70 leading brands, including Aignep, Camozzi, CDC Pneumatics, CEJN, Colder Products Company, E.MC Pneumatics, FasTest, Festo, Master Pneumatic, Oetiker and Sicomat.

Renishaw sales manager Dan Scully talks about the company's ranges of open and closed encoders, incremental and absolute, rotary and linear. In particular, he highlights FORTiS enclosed encoders that have been designed to meet the needs of position monitoring in the harsh environmental conditions of machine tools.

OMRON market development manager David Breckell discusses the company's new range of motor condition monitoring products. These can check vibration, temperature, that the load is in balance, insulation resistance and monitor the condition of the motor bearings.

Motion29 founder Steve Fisher discusses the company's industrial connectivity range, as well as LED lighting (including ATEX products) for machines to indicate status and enhance safety. Typical applications for the company's components include industrial automation, food manufacturing and automotive manufacture.

A clever collaboration between the system integrator and the safety specialist ReeR has resulted in a highly efficient automated production line. Key to this is that any issues within the 14-metre-long production line are localised and don't cause the entire production process to halt.

Following a highly successful showing at Subcon 2025, held at the NEC Birmingham in June, Cross Manufacturing Company has announced increased capacity to produce high-precision machined components.

B&R Industrial Automation managing director, Andy Norcliffe, discusses the company's ACOPOS 6D transport system which uses magnetically levitating shuttles to carry products and materials to processing stations, eliminating mechanical wear, and speeding up transit times.