Schneider Electric has announced its patent to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the likelihood process safety hazards. The innovation automatically, or semi-automatically, analyses potential process hazards and validates protection mechanisms in an industrial process.

With cabinet real estate a key consideration in many automation projects, decentralised and control cabinet-free automation offers huge benefits, so it is particularly exciting for Machine Building North to welcome Beckhoff product specialist Neil March to present a workshop on the topic at the event.

Rockwell Automation is working with Toronto, Ontario-based silicon anode active materials company, NEO Battery Materials. The collaboration aims to deliver solutions to aid the battery material manufacturer on its first North American facility, a 240-ton facility with the capacity to grow up to 5,000 tons of silicon anode material per year in Windsor, Ontario.

In another exciting speaker announcement for Machine Building North, SICK digital solutions consultant Charlie Walker will present on the topic of IO-Link. Join Charlie for his workshop titled '5 minutes to a green light' at Machine Building North on 10 April 2025 at the Concorde Centre in Manchester.

WEG has achieved GOLD rating by EcoVadis for the second consecutive year, placing it in the top two per cent of enterprises evaluated globally. The achievement provides an external trustmark to reinforce WEG's global ethos of driving efficiency and sustainability.

An important workshop announced for Machine Building North will focus on machinery safety legislation, with Pilz machinery safety specialist Alex Bryce guiding us through machinery safety legislation. Join Alex for his workshop presentation at Machine Building North on 10 April 2025 at the Concorde Centre in Manchester.

Yamaha Robotics FA section has agreed with Raveo to expand its sales territory to Slovakia. Effective immediately, the move endorses Raveo's successful achievements since becoming Yamaha's official distributor for Czechia in 2024.

A more diverse engineering workforce is essential to propel collaboration and innovation - and advancing gender equality is at the heart of Renishaw's equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) efforts. In this article, Sarah Chappell-Smith, Process Improvement Engineering Manager at Renishaw, looks at how women can make a difference on the shop floor.