MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, Matthew Harris, business development manager at Lenze UK, unveils a new motor driven roller technology that could address key challenges in conveying and logistics.

Designed to make life easier for hard-working healthcare professionals, NSK will showcase its latest advances in robotic solutions at Medica 2024. Appearing for the first time in Europe, a motorised stretcher assistance robot will provide the display's centrepiece.

CC Link Partner Association (CLPA), will be showing its industry leading open industrial Ethernet technology CC-Link IE TSN at this year's SPS fair in Nuremberg, Germany from 12-14 November, 2024 on stand 5-108.

Nidec Drives has deployed an automated solution to overcome the complexities of manual handling at its Newtown manufacturing site. In particular, variable speed drives have proved pivotal to the installation of a new conveyor system.

Textile handling machines push the boundaries of speed and precision, making a fit with the speed, precision, long range and reliability of Contrinex's analogue Inductive sensors. The sensor's accuracy of a few microns is used to measure the small changes in the position of a 'dancer' roller or 'follower', which tracks the fabric web's position and so indicates the web's tension.

WEG has agreed to form a collaborative partnership with Applied Maintenance Technology (AMT) to promote and use its wireless WEGscan monitoring system in the UK.

Global engineering technology company Renishaw's FORTiS encoders and laser calibration products have helped precision technology specialist HEAKE machine tools to produce consistently high-quality parts.

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, Jason Reed, account manager at Pilz, speaks on keeping machinery safe in a digital world, offering advice on protecting industrial automation and control systems against manipulation and keeping them secure from the outside world.

Producing several million sustainable beverage cans per hour across its European plants, a can manufacturer needed to avoid unplanned machine downtime. Turning to Schaeffler's OPTIME condition monitoring solution has helped to prevent 360 hours of downtime.

Motion Control Products (MCP) has introduced a machine-building solution with integrated IoT functionality, designed to streamline and enhance equipment management and operations across various applications.