Rising labour costs and mounting workforce shortages are a growing global concern for automotive manufacturing, according to a new survey commissioned by ABB Robotics.

Sustainability efforts create entirely new markets, lead to attractive business models, and offer great opportunities for the key technology that is robotics and automation. Automatica, held in Munich from 27 to 30 June 2023, presents the opportunities of sustainable production.

SKF has received validation of its Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets from the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi). The SBTi has verified SKF’s net-zero target by 2050, validating both SKF’s near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets.

See Scorpion Vision at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 35

Mouser Electronics announces a new distribution agreement with Astrocast, offering engineers Astrocast's Satellite IoT (SatIoT) technology to customers in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

See Festo at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 27

See Schaeffler at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 69

Intertronics has supported Bulk Tainer Telematics with material and dispensing equipment for a specialist GPS device.

When gas turbine powered generator package manufacturer Centrax needed protection monitors to replace other obsolete, failed or unreliable products in the field, it turned to Sensonics and the cost-effective, compact DN26 G3.

Analog Devices has announced that Envision Energy, the subsidiary of Envision Group providing world-leading green technology, is adopting ADI’s MEMS sensor technology in the company’s new generation of smart wind turbines.