Marcus Schneck, CEO of Norelem, explores the standard components that are already available to the engineering and manufacturing industry, that can push forward the creation of flexible solutions and facilitate prototyping and product development.

As more customers, governments and businesses look to reduce their environmental impact, sustainable manufacturing is becoming a higher priority. The experts at Essentra Components look at which green manufacturing technologies companies can use to help them meet their sustainability objectives.

mk offers a range of extremely robust modular belt conveyors that can be used in a multitude of ways for almost every transport application. They are available in widths from 164-1,000mm, lengths from 400-10,000mm, and can carry loads up to 250kg.

The FDB Online store provides a convenient single source for enclosure hardware both ex-stock and for urgent delivery, and typical of these components is its recently expanded range of bridge handles.

ABB has extended its all-compatible family of machinery drives with the new ACS180 variable speed drive (VSD) for applications up to 22 kW. This easy-to-use and compact VSD brings reliability and performance for machinery builders.

Igus has taken a further step towards sustainable plastic production by using residues of the high-performance plastic xirodur B180 from injection moulding production to produce a sustainable variant of the popular xiros deep groove ball bearing. The recycled version has almost the same technical properties and load limits as a virgin xiros bearing.

Maxon is launching five new products at the SPS trade fair in Nuremberg. All products are designed with particularly efficient use of resources and compactness in mind.

Pepperl+Fuchs says its AS-Interface 3 gateways are opening up completely new opportunities, with a sophisticated design, modern operating concept, multi-protocol capability and IIoT capability.

Rencol Components has been designing, manufacturing and supplying hand wheels since the 1950s. Today, Rencol’s range of handwheels includes injection moulded plastic hand wheels, stainless steel hand wheels and aluminium hand wheels.

Yaskawa says its latest YRC1000 robot controls provide an important solution for the recovery of robot braking energy, and is offers this feature as standard on its larger Motoman robots with a payload upwards of 50kg.