Many small steps are helping reduce carbon emissions, but if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming giant leaps are urgently required. Torque measuring specialist Sensor Technology is helping one of the key green tech players develop and test technologies critical for a sustainable future.

A ‘smart’ ultra-compact profile sensor from Baumer is proving key on a newly developed space- and time-saving electroplating robot.

Farnell has received the prestigious 2023 Selling Value Award at the highly anticipated NI Connect Partner Forum. The Selling Value Award is one of the most prestigious awards presented at the forum and is only given to partners who demonstrate a commitment to providing exceptional customer service.

When a photovoltaic cell manufacturer needed tiny inductive sensors to ensure a robot gripper could reliably pick up fragile silicon wafers without damaging them, it turned to Contrinex.

See Maxon at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 34

Rockwell Automation has published a report – Five Key Operational Pathways to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonisation – that looks at how the industrial sector can leverage data-driven technologies and insights to help accelerate the energy transition.

See Igus at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 20

When a manufacturer wanted to optimise the transfer of packaged goods onto an AGV, to improve cycle time and availability, it turned to Contrinex for a sensing solution.

To continue its support of the communities in which it is based, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, is now a sponsor of national governing body, Hockey Wales. The partnership complements Renishaw’s extensive science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) outreach programmes.

For the last five years, WEG has been developing its digitalisation portfolio to fulfil growing demand for predictive maintenance technologies. Here, we examine the deployment and success of its predictive maintenance platform, WEG Motion Fleet Management (MFM) at the company’s own facilities.