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Cable protection at your fingertips with new flexicon app

Cable protection at your fingertips with new flexicon app

Specifying cable protection is now possible wherever you are thanks to Flexicon's new find-a-conduit app. Tim Creedon, sales and marketing director for Flexicon,  says: "Specifying the correct conduit system for cable protection depends on the hazards faced by the system.   Often this assessment is most easily done on site, so having a mobile tool that enables you to explore different solutions on your phone or tablet is a big benefit."

25th February 2015
SICK brings plug-in safety light curtains to a wide user base

SICK brings plug-in safety light curtains to a wide user base

Expanding SICK's ground-breaking range of safety products, the SICK deTec2 Core  type 2 light curtain brings enhanced standards in performance efficiency, installation ease and reliability for PL c and  SIL 1 applications for FMCG goods handling and packaging.

24th February 2015
Browse robot videos by company, technology or industry

Browse robot videos by company, technology or industry

A new feature on the Robotics Update website means anyone thinking of adopting an industrial robot can now browse videos by different categories, giving them an additional resource as part of their evaluation process.

23rd February 2015
Renishaw's new pioneering encoder boldly goes into space

Renishaw's new pioneering encoder boldly goes into space

Renishaw has deployed its products in space for the first time. The European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite was launched from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, with Renishaw's new space-encoder technology installed on the advanced Optical Communications Payload (OCP) of the satellite; part of a revolutionary inter-satellite laser communication system. The OCP provides an optical Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) communications link via a pair of Laser Communication Terminals (LCT) by space telecommunications company Tesat-Spacecom (Tesat) of Backnang, Germany. The GEO LCT is currently accommodated on Europe's AlphaSat.

23rd February 2015
RS Components makes it easier to find and order products online

RS Components makes it easier to find and order products online

RS Components has made a number of important enhancements to its website to make the customer purchasing journey quicker and simpler. The upgrades, which include a redesign of the website header, facets of search and product pages, are all based on customer feedback to make it easier to find products and place orders. By helping to increase the conversion of visitors to the website, the changes are expected to drive the Group's online sales and help us on our way to achieving our medium-term target of 70% of our business to be transacted online.

23rd February 2015
Waters sees high-end Mitutoyo metrology make a difference

Waters sees high-end Mitutoyo metrology make a difference

More than a decade ago Waters Corporation, the scientific laboratory instrument and software manufacturer, started introducing high-end metrology equipment to its several sites in the South Manchester area to help cope with the increasing demands of advanced product development and manufacture. The results over the next few years provided a resounding vindication of this investment philosophy, particularly as regards production of leading-edge mass spectrometers. Recently the company enhanced this capability with major Vision/Coordinate Measuring Machine acquisitions from Mitutoyo UK, the company's long-time metrology partner.

23rd February 2015
Linear drive technology aids PCB production throughput

Linear drive technology aids PCB production throughput

Demand for advances in the design, development and manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCB) is ever increasing. As a result PCB production equipment manufacturer Rainbow Technology Systems has developed a new machine that is designed to help increase the speed at which circuit boards are printed, with a higher accuracy for detail, increased right first time yield, and a reduction in process waste.

23rd February 2015
Manufacturing growth picks up speed

Manufacturing growth picks up speed

Activity in the manufacturing sector picked up pace in February, and output is expected to grow faster still in the next three months, according to the latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey.

22nd February 2015
2015 PPMA Show plans unveiled

2015 PPMA Show plans unveiled

The Processing and Packaging Machinery Association Group (PPMA) has unveiled plans for the 2015 PPMA Show, with a focus on the industry-wide issues of a lack of apprentices and the skills shortage in general.

21st February 2015
Zen and the art of jimmying out the backup battery

Zen and the art of jimmying out the backup battery

I was rudely awakened in the small hours of this morning by the persistent 'peep' of a smoke alarm. Not one of those terrifying 'get out of the house, NOW' moments I'm happy to report, with an alarm shrilly sounding its warning and alerting me to fire. No, this was a single 'peep' at random intervals of between 30 seconds and three minutes. It's one of those things where you just feel that if you could only get back off to sleep, you could probably ease your way through the rest of the night, but then another 'peep' jars you awake again, and you then proceed to count down 30 seconds to see if it will happen again.

20th February 2015
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