Automation and digitisation are advancing in the food industry, particularly in the area of inline quality management where continuously monitoring packaging production with machine vision increases efficiency and significantly reduces the number of recalls. With the support of MVTec Software, PackCheck has developed a modular solution for ensuring packaging quality.

Apex Dynamics UK has been praised by Cambridge Dynamics for the "seamless and transparent" implementation of its products into a new custom machine the specialist company produced for one of its customers.

When bakery industry machine supplier Wymbs Engineering set about upgrading an existing design for improved productivity, it set actuator supplier Ewellix a challenge: to deliver a motion solution that would enable the new generation machine to operate a third faster than the previous one.

An automotive manufacturer uses simple, low-cost inductive sensors from Contrinex to provide a robust and reliable system of identifying the product variant of a vehicle body as it enters an assembly area.

Nidec Drives has deployed an automated solution to overcome the complexities of manual handling at its Newtown manufacturing site. In particular, variable speed drives have proved pivotal to the installation of a new conveyor system.

Textile handling machines push the boundaries of speed and precision, making a fit with the speed, precision, long range and reliability of Contrinex's analogue Inductive sensors. The sensor's accuracy of a few microns is used to measure the small changes in the position of a 'dancer' roller or 'follower', which tracks the fabric web's position and so indicates the web's tension.

Producing several million sustainable beverage cans per hour across its European plants, a can manufacturer needed to avoid unplanned machine downtime. Turning to Schaeffler's OPTIME condition monitoring solution has helped to prevent 360 hours of downtime.

Greaves 3D Engineering builds collapsible simulator with 45 igus components such as maintenance-free drylin linear and drive technology.

Three large, travelling-column bed mills at the Swansea factory of subcontractor Afon Engineering have been retrofitted with a Heidenhain TNC 320 control and new drives to improve their reliability and performance.

In a secondary packaging operation, bags of products like confectionery are often 'shingled', a process of layering them into a cardboard shipping box in alternating overlapped layers. Photoelectric sensors with background-suppression from Contrinex have provided a reliable means of checking the correct quantity of bags in each box.