Enhancing Efficiency in Material Handling
TodayWDS Components offers an extensive portfolio designed to enhance material handling across various industries, offering a versatile collection of wheels and castors, levelling feet, conveyor parts and tube inserts.
Pneumatic and hydraulic safety valves and control systems
TodayFounded in 1921, ROSS designs and manufactures pneumatic and hydraulic safety valves, control systems, and is universally recognised as a global leader in fluid power safety solutions. It will highlight its capabilities at MachineBuilding.Live.
Grippers, robot accessories and rotary and linear modules
TodaySCHUNK, a seasoned expert in engineering solutions with over 70 years of experience, has a portfolio that features more than 11,000 standard components, providing a comprehensive range for your automation projects.
Servomotor brakes with ISO 13849-1 Functional Safety Certification
TodayNexen Group now provides servomotor brakes with Functional Safety Certification to international safety standard ISO 13849-1. Industry 4.0 compatible, the NexSafe servomotor brakes, offering bidirectional braking capabilities offer safety to Category Level 4 and Performance Level e.
Performance analysis ratchets up a gear with dual parameter cross-referencing
1 day agoSimultaneous measurement of a shaft's torque and angular position or rotational distance is now possible thanks to a new development by Sensor Technology, a combined torque sensor and angular position encoder. The company's R&D Manager James Gilkes explains how engineers in various fields can use the new SGR523 to improve their machines and systems whilst reducing their workload and speeding up development cycles.
8 things you need to know about confocal displacement sensors
19 days agoWhen specifying a non-contact confocal displacement sensor, several factors need to be considered including measuring speed, resolution, type of material and surface, the operating environment and whether thickness measurements are required, says Glenn Wedgbrow, Business Development Manager at Micro-Epsilon UK.
Eichenberger leadscrews - refined for the future
22 days agoUtilising a simple idea of converting rotary motion to linear motion, leadscrews give quick, efficient, accurate and precise linear motion control with small to large lifting capacities. The biggest change in leadscrew technology over the years has been in how the thread itself is formed, as Moore International CEO Mark Moore explains.
European Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 is replacing Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Technically, it has already come into force but there is a transition period during which machinery is still being CE marked to the old Directive. You can download a free copy of the Guide to the New Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 by completing the form here.
The MachineBuilding.net Guide to Food and Beverage Industry Machine Design provides information, hints and tips to help designers create state-of-the-art yet cost effective systems that meet applicable regulations and standards, while also providing the necessary levels of productivity, quality and reliability.
Spiers Engineering Safety publishes the ultimate guide to PUWER
414 days agoGetting your head around PUWER inspections and PUWER planning can be difficult when you have many other things to be thinking about too. Spiers Engineering Safety has created the Ultimate Guide to PUWER which will walk you through the basics, and help you make informed decisions. This guide will also support learners working towards their Certified PUWER Assessor Qualification (CPA).
White paper sheds light on the challenges and solutions when using optical sensors
454 days agoA free-to-download white paper from sensing and instrumentation specialist Baumer considers all the challenges of why ambient light has such a significant influence on the performance of optical sensors and provides some practical solutions.
