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Safety rotary encoders from Siko solve civil engineering challenge

Safety rotary encoders from Siko solve civil engineering challenge

Heavy machinery in specialist civil engineering requires precise and reliable components in order to be able to perform the respective functions reliably. When specialist civil engineering company Stump-Franki Spezialtiefbau needed to reliably detect the positions of the elements attached to winches on its pile drivers, it turned to Siko for absolute rotary encoders as part of the safety concept.

14th February 2022
Belzona celebrates its 70th anniversary

Belzona celebrates its 70th anniversary

Established in 1952, Belzona is celebrating 70 years as a pioneer in polymeric solutions, breathing new life into assets across numerous application areas and industries all around the world. Indeed, Belzona now hosts a network of 140 international Distributors operating in over 120 countries.

14th February 2022
Automation line for automotive motor block assembly

Automation line for automotive motor block assembly

mk has helped an automotive supplier that manufactures and assembles motor blocks and cylinder heads. The customer had various motor components that needed to be flexibly supplied for feeding the main assembly line so that they can be subsequently assembled

14th February 2022
Abbey cuts fluid costs with Rocol

Abbey cuts fluid costs with Rocol

Abbey Tool and Gauge has invested in cutting fluid from Rocol. Taking up the reasoning behind switching its fluid provider, Abbey Tool and Gauge Director, Mr Iain Reid says: “At first, we were a little sceptical when Rocol came in to see us because they said they could run our oil consumption at 2% - and we were running at somewhere between 6 and 8%. Alistair and I thought long and hard about it, and we filled two machines with the product. We ran the two machines for six weeks - and we were delighted.”

14th February 2022
Reliance apprentices shortlisted to compete for Nanosat Challenge Fund

Reliance apprentices shortlisted to compete for Nanosat Challenge Fund

Reliance Precision is delighted that its third- and fourth-year apprentices have been chosen to compete for part of a £600,000 Challenge Fund in LaunchUK’s Nanosat Design Competition. The competition challenges young people to design a nanosat (a small satellite with a mass of between 1 kg and 10 kg) capable of being sent into space to support the UK’s climate change and decarbonisation efforts.

14th February 2022
Stadler Rail selects NSK condition monitoring subsidiary B&K Vibro

Stadler Rail selects NSK condition monitoring subsidiary B&K Vibro

Brüel and Kjær Vibro (B&K Vibro), part of the NSK Group, has signed a long-term agreement with Stadler Rail to install its state-of-the-art VCM-3 condition monitoring system (CMS) on 606 rail carriages for the Berlin Underground (U-Bahn). The VCM-3 CMS will serve to optimise maintenance schedules, maintain uptime and reduce operating costs.

11th February 2022
Subscription software accelerates AI development with thermal imaging

Subscription software accelerates AI development with thermal imaging

Teledyne Flir has announced the release of Conservator, a cloud-based dataset development subscription software for perception engineers using thermal infrared and visible image datasets to train neural networks.

11th February 2022
Light detection grids deliver poka-yoke automotive bracket assembly

Light detection grids deliver poka-yoke automotive bracket assembly

When an automotive first-tier supplier needed to be able to guarantee that an assembly was welded correctly before it was despatched, and to implement a Poke Yoke control system, it turned to Contrinex.

11th February 2022
Moving energy made easy with Igus energy chains

Moving energy made easy with Igus energy chains

Who said moving energy had to be difficult? Igus says that its energy chains not only make it easy, but also make it possible to go circular. Whatever the movement you need, horizontal, vertical or circular, you’ll find it all in this latest Igus video.

11th February 2022

Analog Devices at Mobile World Congress 2022

Analog Devices at Mobile World Congress 2022

From February 28 to March 3, Analog Devices (ADI) will participate in Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona, Spain, with an exhibition stand (#2F25, Hall 2) that will showcase the company’s leading technologies and platforms for 5G Radio Units (RU). The series of demonstrations delve into advanced topics such as OpenRAN platforms and validation, massive MIMO, and software defined radio – reaffirming the company’s commitment to innovation, optimising performance and efficiency.

11th February 2022
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