Machinery safety standards are updated regularly to keep up with changing technologies and approaches. The next webinar from Fortress Safety, on 18 June, will cover the changes released in ISO 14119:2024 Safety of machinery - Interlocking devices associated with guards - Principles for design and selection, and how these changes are affecting regional standards.

Specialist drive system supplier and FAULHABER distributor EMS is exhibiting at Smart Manufacturing Week at the NEC in Birmingham from June 4 to 5, 2025. At stand D166, EMS will showcase a range of advanced micromotors and motion solutions, including the new FAULHABER GXR and SXR motor families and planetary gearheads with 22GPT and 32GPT HT.

In a new whitepaper, ABB has set out the scale of the challenge facing the global industrial sector and emphasises the critical role of industrial energy efficiency in meeting rising energy demand while strengthening energy security and affordability and driving industrial competitiveness.

In the food, beverage and packaging industries, space for conveyor systems is limited. A Swedish machine manufacturer uses the advantages of drive technology from NORD DRIVESYSTEMS to realise a compact design with reduced drive variants for chain conveyors.

One of the most important objectives for companies in the field of machine and plant engineering today is to realise all available optimisation potential. Lenze and Rittal have signed a technology partnership and will be working together to shape the future of power distribution and drive technology.

FANUC UK has announced an agreement with Reeco Automation to incorporate the FANUC CRX range of collaborative robots into the RB series of robot palletisers. As manual loading becomes an increasingly harder role to recruit, Reeco's automated end-of-line RB Palletiser systems have grown in popularity, particularly among food and beverage producers.

Bedfordshire-based mechanical power transmission specialist Drive Lines Technologies is proudly celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025. Founded in 1985, the company has spent four decades representing leading international component manufacturers across the UK and Ireland. To mark this significant milestone, Drive Lines has unveiled a brand-new website to better support its customers.

Precision drive system manufacturer maxon is exhibiting at Manufacturing Solutions Ireland on 11 and 12 June, taking place at Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Coonagh Cross Campus, in Limerick. On Stand G33, maxon will present its high-performance DC and brushless DC motors (BLDC), as well as complete drive systems including motion control.

HMS Networks has released its annual analysis of the industrial network market, revealing key trends and developments. After an exceptional surge in 2023, the market experienced a slight slowdown in 2024, with a decrease of approximately 10-11% in newly installed nodes.

At automatica 2025, Kistler will be presenting a broad product portfolio for automated manufacturing processes - or those on the way to being automated - at booth 205 in hall B5. Among other things, innovations for the manufacture of medical technology and pharmaceutical products will be on display.