When Designed Architectural Lighting (DAL) was contracted to design and manufacture specialist luminaires for the cross-passage tunnel lighting in several of the newly built stations on the Crossrail Elizabeth Line, it turned to Southco for a solution to enhance the safety and performance of the luminaires.

As an example of how a smart factory can use Contrinex’s smart inductive and photoelectric sensors, we look at a smart inductive sensor embedded within the spindle of a CNC machining centre at the start of a manufacturing cell.

When Orisol, a leading provider of automated systems for footwear production, wanted to futureproof its offering to drive its customers’ and its own competitiveness, CC-Link IE TSN offered the ideal technology. The resulting innovation delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness as well as the connectivity required for smart manufacturing operations.

See Schaeffler at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 69

Installing a robotic pick-and-place and integrated conveyor solution has increased productivity for a pharmaceutical manufacturer while maintaining regulatory compliance. Combining a vision system optimised for accuracy that assures end-to-end traceability, a single controller from Trio manages both the robot and conveyor axes, increasing reliability for the end user.

See Omron at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 44

Expert Technologies Group’s customers get remote access for free during the project delivery phase thanks to Ixon Cloud. And after project delivery they are selling remote access as a service.

A high speed automatic code reader from Identify Direct in use on 26 food production lines in the UK is saving the food manufacturer over £2,000,000 per year.

When a large retailer needed help to rectify a bonding failure on the component it was importing from China, it turned to Advanced Adhesives for a solution.

See HMS Networks at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 96