In a large laminating unit by SAUERESSIG Engineering for laminating steel strip on both sides, rubber rollers press a protective PET film onto hot steel strip. Despite cooling, these rubber rollers do wear down and need to be replaced regularly. Four profiled rail brakes from mayr power transmission ensure that the laminating process, which takes place 24 hours a day, only has to be interrupted briefly to replace the rollers.

What's the best way to cut expensive downtime and maintenance for repairs on machine comms cables? Get rid of the cables! Go wireless, with help and advice from SMC.

How could SMC help a UK-based OEM to cut manufacturing costs for an overseas customer? The answer is SMC's global network and its Air Management System - helping manufacturers worldwide adopt its Four Bar Factory principles.

The CuMaster from BOSCHERT is a highly dynamic, high-precision copper punching machine that processes long copper, aluminium and steel bars. The machine manufacturer relies on right-angle planetary gearboxes and right-angle servo gearboxes from STOBER, as well as on the drive specialist's new rack and pinion drives.

Hanover Displays, a UK-based manufacturer of passenger information systems for the public transport sector, has reached a major manufacturing milestone: the completion of its 1,000,000th automated quality test of printed circuit boards (PCBs) using Techman collaborative robots from LG Motion.

Servo drives, motors and PLCs from Inovance have enabled packaging machinery OEM Spiraltech to automate a machine capable of cutting cardboard cores from 60 mm up to 1,250 mm in diameter.

Automation solutions provider Eberle Automatische Systeme has developed a breakthrough in quality control with a focus on the cheese-ripening process, combining AI with machine vision software from MVTec.

Precision planetary gearboxes from Apex Dynamics have been selected by UK packaging machinery company T. Freemantle for use in its new S01 pre-glued sleever.

Cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems are at the heart of a new, automated system in Germany that enables intelligent sorting of used textiles.