Southco has introduced a next-generation 4D Captive Screw, featuring a self-aligning knob and increased tolerance.

Procter Machine Safety has updated its ever-popular guide to machine safety and guarding standards. The 14th edition is an essential free download for anyone with an interest in machine safety, including designers, specifiers, production engineers, health and safety managers, and maintenance managers.

With IndustrialPI, Pilz is introducing an open, modular industrial PC. It has freely available open source software and offers numerous input and output modules. As a result, the industrial PC can be used as a gateway in Industrial Internet environments (IIOT) or as a Soft PLC in the widest range of applications.

Nuts are an essential component in many assemblies. However, they challenge automation systems because of their low metal content for detection with inductive sensors or because the variety of angles and reflections that nuts can present to photoelectric sensors are problematic. Contrinex offers a solution.

Alongside motors and gears, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS points to the importance of its NORDAC frequency inverters for applications where movements must be intelligently controlled.

Micro-Epsilon has extended its capaNCDT range of high precision capacitive measurement systems with a new high precision system for fast, offline thickness measurement of very thin electrically conductive film such as that used in production of batteries.

TDK Corporation announces push-in wire terminations for models in the high-reliability, TDK-Lambda HWS-A family of AC-DC power supplies. The HWS-A/E models are available with either vertical or horizontal orientated terminals, simplifying cable harnessing.

Providing affordable, effective monitoring for smaller machinery, Sensonics has developed the PZDC accelerometer. The 2-wire (+screen) loop-powered 4-20mA sensors are available in a number of options.

Easy to install and with quick payback, the igus ReBeL Move autonomous mobile robot enables a cost-effective entry into an automated logistics operation.

Stephen Hayes, managing director at Beckhoff Automation UK, looks at magnetic levitation and its revolutionary potential for manufacturing.