MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, Festo product marketing manager, Josh Roberts, discusses selecting the optimal field-level machine control architecture.

Rotor, part of the WEG Group, has contributed to a major subsea cable-laying project. Working closely with Remacut, part of the NOV Group, Rotor supplied 54 highly specialised motors for a vessel that will lay energy cables across the ocean floor.

The Workshop Programme at MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, was expanded to include a series of Machinery Safety Masterclass talks. Here, Miklos Bakos, machine solutions offer manager at Schneider Electric, explores machinery safety with robotics.

BCN3D has secured a pivotal investment round to fuel its growth in the light industrial additive manufacturing (AM) market. The funding aligns with BCN3D's recent move to a state-of-the-art production facility, which is now fully operational after a successful ramp-up phase.

Pennine Pneumatic Services (PPS), a compressed air distributor in Yorkshire, UK, has become part of Atlas Copco Group, after being acquired by Atlas Copco UK Holdings.

Parker Hannifin announces the creation of a comprehensive network of Certified Pump and Motor Service Centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The initiative is designed to meet the demands of customers in both mobile and industrial sectors, offering quick delivery of hydraulic pumps, as well as expert repair and refurbishment services.

Apex Dynamics UK has been praised by Cambridge Dynamics for the "seamless and transparent" implementation of its products into a new custom machine the specialist company produced for one of its customers.

DigiKey has expanded in both supplier partners and new product introductions (NPI) during the third quarter of 2024. This includes the addition of 139 new suppliers and more than 611,000 products across its core business, Marketplace, and Fulfilled by DigiKey programs.

Nidec Drives is launching a change to its warranty program. Effective immediately, customers will now receive a 5-year warranty as standard on all Control Techniques global drives, option module and keypad product lines.