In many production environments, cleaning processes are run conservatively because cleanliness may be hard to verify. The result is frequent cleaning fluid changes, unnecessary downtime, and higher operating costs, all justified in the name of risk reduction. Hydraulic cylinder manufacturer Burnside Hydracyl worked with Dyne Testing, an Intertronics brand, to replace assumption with measurement in its cylinder washing process.

When in 1998 the Royal Opera House in London needed help with a cable management solution for its lighting trusses, it turned to igus. Some 27 years later as part of refurbishment project, the Royal Opera House engineering team needed another novel solution: an energy supply system that had to meet new requirements in terms of load, smooth running and weight. igus was happy to help out again.

The PSENradar safe radar system from Pilz is ensuring safety for personnel on woodworking processes at Unilin's production site in Izegem, Belgium.

Danube Dynamics and Aspock Systems automate complex lamp inspections using adaptive AI and IDS industrial cameras to ensure accuracy, flexibility and full traceability under real production conditions.

Belgian machinery manufacturer Texprofin developed a range of automated towel-folding machines using products from industrial automation specialist Inovance.

Rockwell Automation reports that Italian and Swiss household brand Orphea has deployed a new, custom-made end-of-line packaging system, designed by Rockwell Automation and automation specialist Vimco, that will accelerate production, reduce error rates and enable Orphea to expand and scale.

In hot-dip coating plants, steel strips are coated with molten zinc, zinc alloys and aluminium alloys in a continuous process. Inductive eddy current sensors are used in electromagnetic systems for strip stabilisation. Due to the high speed of the belts, vibrations occur. To minimise this, electromagnetic stabilisation systems from market leader EMG are used, in which 10 to 16 EU40 inductive sensors from Micro-Epsilon are installed.

Due to strict compliance regulations, packaging for medical products must be correctly labeled before it is delivered to customers. Chinese company Shenzhen Jiangrun Xuneng Technology has developed a machine vision solution that automatically reads character codes using OCR. The heart of the application is the standard machine vision software MVTec HALCON.

With the support of Mitsubishi Electric and the engineering firm ATINA, German machine manufacturer BHB Waschanlagen Vertriebs has built a new tram washing system, designed to help save resources for Zurich's public transport operator, Zurcher Verkehrsverbund.

Automation specialist Hambi Maschinenbau, part of Terhoeven, has developed a world-first system that automates the cutting, handling, and stacking of heavy reinforcing steel mesh - a task that previously required up to six human operators. By integrating Mitsubishi Electric's drive and control technologies connected via CC-Link IE TSN, Hambi has achieved millimetre-level precision and seamless synchronisation across motion, safety, and vision systems in a single, unified network.