The education programme for Smart Manufacturing and Engineering Week has been announced with nearly 150 free-to-attend sessions taking place across eight solutions theatres during the live events from 5-6 June 2024 at Birmingham’s NEC.

In a dynamic convergence of industry experts, innovators, and enthusiasts, igus, recently hosted the RBTX Low-Cost Robotics Live Workshop. This event, held at the North of England Robotics Innovation Centre (NERIC), brought together numerous users of low-cost robotics as well as automation novices.

In the last of this week’s previews for May’s FoodManufacturing.Live, we look at some of the engineering products specifically developed to address the manufacturing challenges within this demanding sector, and their applications, focusing on track rollers from Schaeffler, sensing solutions from Baumer, robot dress packs from Murrplastik and flow meters from ifm electronic.

Rockwell Automation has announced a successful collaboration with Swedish OEM Hax Technologies to upgrade and optimise the human-machine interface for Kinnareds Well, helping to improve productivity and operator experience with the Allen-Bradley OptixPanel Standard Graphic Terminal.

Neura Robotics and OMRON Robotics and Safety Technologies are excited to announce their strategic partnership which aims to revolutionise the manufacturing industry by introducing cognitive robots into factory automation, leveraging advanced AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and safety.

Industrial automation specialist Festo and systems integrator QM Systems have collaborated on the evolution of a new automated laboratory system that fills, caps and labels test vials at speeds of up to 3000 vials per hour.

In the latest in our series of previews for FoodManufacturing.Live, we look at the topic of efficiency, and the solutions that will enable businesses to boost their productivity while saving energy. In particular, we focus on food portioning technology from Telsonic, energy efficiency solutions from Spooner Industries, vision systems from IDS and digital panel meters from London Electronics.

Apex Hydraulics was approached by a client that had been partnering for many years with a local steel rolling mill. As machine designers, they had been commissioned to redesign, manufacture and install a new steel plate shear press with cutting plate.

Fully aware of the complexity of the topic, TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP says it has been successful with a comprehensive sustainability strategy.

In the second in our series of previews for FoodManufacturing.Live, which opens its doors at the National Motorcycle Museum on 1 May 2024, we look specifically at the issue of safety within food and beverage production, highlighting solutions from SKF, Pilz and MachineSafe Compliance.