Industrial Technology

Renishaw 3D prints gift for HRH The Princess Royal

Global engineering technology firm Renishaw has 3D printed a special gift fit for royalty. The company additively manufactured a replica of its nineteenth century Mill headquarters building and gave the unique piece to Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, when she officially opened Renishaw's new Innovation Centre and presented the company with its eighteenth Queen's Award. The visit came 35 years after HRH The Princess Royal opened an extension to the company's first commercial premises.

7th September 2015

First Fanuc MC410iC/185 robot in the field at Askew & Barrett

The first FANUC M410iC/185 universal palletising robot has been installed in the UK at pulse processor Askew & Barrett, where it has helped to boost productivity by 15-20% and eliminated a potential health and safety risk factor by automating a manual palletising operation.

4th September 2015

Bridging the 'valley of death' between research and bringing products to market

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is launching a new fund, Stephenson LP, aimed at helping companies overcome the investment hurdle between Research and Development and bringing a product to market.

3rd September 2015

Harting joins OsnabrÃ¼ck University's racing team to verify RFID detection speeds

Harting has joined forces with the University of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany, in an experiment to verify the ability of the company's RFID (radio-frequency identification) systems to detect objects moving at high speeds.

3rd September 2015

JMFC sees a future with Mitutoyo Vision

There comes a time when older inspection equipment gets to the stage where its performance threatens to create a bottleneck in production. This was the situation reached with a 10-year-old Vision Measuring System at Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells (JMFC) in the fuel cell component manufacturing facility at Swindon, a facility built to give the company a leading position as a producer of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) to the highly demanding quality requirements of fuel-cell customers.

2nd September 2015

Astec supply a further high speed carton conveyor system

Astec Conveyors, a leading specialist in the design and manufacture of integrated materials handling systems has supplied a further high speed carton conveyor system to a major UK cereal manufacturer.

1st September 2015

Verotec contributes to THAAD systems

Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) is a US Army anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach. The interceptor missile carries no warhead, but relies on the kinetic energy of the direct impact to destroy the incoming threat.

27th August 2015

Aerotech introduces RCP-DELTA robot and controller

Aerotech has combined a delta robot with a scalable, open-architecture controller based on its proven A3200 machine controller, to provide the RCP-DELTA. The RCP-DELTA is available in four models that support payloads up to 3 kg, with X/Y operating ranges of 500/800/1100/1300 mm, and an optional continuous rotation about the Z axis (yaw).

26th August 2015

33 ways 3D printing is transforming the world

RS components has conducted some research over the past 12 months to understand what engineers are most interested in when it comes to technology, and the findings have shown that 3D printing has dominated online conversations. From these findings, RS Components has developed this interactive and responsive infographic.

25th August 2015

Steel maker improves roller table reliability with AC drives

The roller table has 80 rollers to transport finished steel billets at Celsa Manufacturing's plant in Cardiff. Each drive controls four banks of 20 roller motors. Celsa's existing roller table drives were obsolete as the company's electrical engineer, Nicholas Drane, explains: "The existing drives could not be interrogated to discover what they are doing or what condition they are in. It was also getting difficult to source spares for them.

24th August 2015

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