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Elmo Motion Control targets demand from UK

Elmo Motion Control targets demand from UK"s smart manufacturing

Elmo Motion Control has expanded its UK operations with the opening of a dedicated sales and service centre in Burntwood Business Park, West Midlands. The company has been supplying its specialty servo drives and motion control solutions to the UK market for several years. The new centre is targeting the UK’s burgeoning automation sector, as well as printing and packaging, machine builders, medical, robotics, automated guided vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, inspection machines and harsh environment applications.

23rd May 2017
Elesa breather caps and level indicators hit the mark for Sarum Hydraulics

Elesa breather caps and level indicators hit the mark for Sarum Hydraulics

Elesa filler breathers and level indicators have been an important part of specialist hydraulic hand pumps, pressure testing units and dispensing equipment from Sarum Hydraulics for 30 years. This is a long term relationship based on quality components, leading design style and reliability of supply, which has enabled Sarum Hydraulics to produce equipment for a wide range of applications requiring very reliable high performance actuation, pressure testing and system charging pumps such as their Micropac hand pump series.

22nd May 2017
Elesa breather caps and level indicators hit the mark for Sarum Hydraulics

Elesa breather caps and level indicators hit the mark for Sarum Hydraulics

Elesa filler breathers and level indicators have been an important part of specialist hydraulic hand pumps, pressure testing units and dispensing equipment from Sarum Hydraulics for 30 years. This is a long term relationship based on quality components, leading design style and reliability of supply, which has enabled Sarum Hydraulics to produce equipment for a wide range of applications requiring very reliable high performance actuation, pressure testing and system charging pumps such as their Micropac hand pump series.

19th May 2017
Phoenix Contact takes over specialist for industrial communication technology

Phoenix Contact takes over specialist for industrial communication technology

Phoenix Contact is to take over Taiwanese company Etherwan System, a manufacturer for Ethernet communication technology in automation. The takeover enrichens the position of the Phoenix Contact Group in the area of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0, which was already strengthened by the take-over of the Canadian Perle Systems in 2016.

18th May 2017
With demonisation, the devil is in the detail

With demonisation, the devil is in the detail

I’ve learned over the years from watching numerous cookery programmes on TV that seasoning essentially means adding salt. And a pinch of salt is more or less a handful. Of course, we are continually told that salt is very bad for us; in particular, it is one of the principal causes of high blood pressure. As part of an annual health check, I have recently had my blood pressure taken for the umpteenth time, and for the umpteenth time told that it was on the higher side of optimal. Along with that came the advice to cut salt out of my diet, to get my readings away from the amber and firmly back into the green.

17th May 2017
Festo offers free advice on pneumatic valve selection

Festo offers free advice on pneumatic valve selection

Festo, the leading supplier of automation equipment, is offering free advice to help engineers designing and specifying pneumatic systems to select the best valve for their application. The intention is to give confidence when choosing from the company's Blue Star Core Range of products, which are available for next day delivery and combine proven Festo quality with attractive pricing.

10th May 2017
Reliance head of metrology meets Lord Prior at NPL event

Reliance head of metrology meets Lord Prior at NPL event

Reliance’s Head of Metrology, David Torr, was part of a select group of delegates invited to meet with Lord Prior of Brampton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he launched the UK Measurement Strategy at the National Physical Laboratory’s (NPL) North of England base in Huddersfield.

2nd May 2017
Verotec helps Abbey Road Studios continue to expand and innovate

Verotec helps Abbey Road Studios continue to expand and innovate

Abbey Road Studios is the most famous recording studios in the world and has been witness to countless landmark recordings over the past 85 years. From The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Oasis to Adele, Frank Ocean, Ed Sheeran, Amy Winehouse and Kanye West, Abbey Road has also been the destination for 100s of iconic film scores.

26th April 2017
Up close with Blue Diamond in new microscope video

Up close with Blue Diamond in new microscope video

Blue Diamond Technologies, the Hampshire-based engineering firm specialising in the design and manufacture of bespoke mechanical components, has added a new video - “A Closer Look” - to its YouTube channel to demonstrate the effectiveness of its Optimax Evo-Cam full HD digital microscope.

25th April 2017
Critical components cleaned to the most demanding quality standards

Critical components cleaned to the most demanding quality standards

William Hughes, the specialist manufacturer of springs and bent wire components for the global automotive and aerospace industries, now offers an expanded range of ultrasonic and non-ultrasonic cleaning techniques for critical components to the highest international and governmental approval standards. These include military and electronics specification components for applications that include LOX, Oxygen critical parts and hydraulic hoses.

25th April 2017
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