The machine builder of the future is a service provider. It’s essential to optimise your service offerings in the coming years, so your customers will see you as a valuable partner throughout the entire lifecycle of your machines. The new IXON Marketplace offers over 25 apps that can help you to step up your service game.

From the treatment of narrowing arteries through to circulatory support, miniature motors act as the heart of medical devices used to treat cardiovascular disease. When selecting motor solutions for such applications, compact size and precision control are crucial factors, as the experts and Portescap explain.

Responding to market demand for higher load, HepcoMotion is expanding its range of guidance solutions for Beckhoff’s XTS with the new GFX-r – a system providing movement in rectangular paths. Based on the existing GFX design and incorporating the inherent flexibility and precision of GFX/XTS technology, the curved segments have been removed, enabling transportation of payloads up to 40kg.

The new compact EMpro DC energy meter from Phoenix Contact enables the space-saving, precise, and tamper-proof direct measurement of currents and voltages of up to 650 A/1,000 V DC.

John Browett, general manager at the CLPA Europe, looks at how CC-Link IE TSN solutions are being implemented to advance manufacturing facilities around the world.

Siemens Digital Industries Software says it has set the benchmark for innovation in the field of engineering simulation with the launch of two groundbreaking solutions – HEEDS AI Simulation Predictor software and Simcenter Reduced Order Modelling software.

With dedicated products and solutions for the likes of power generation and transmission, to energy storage and consumption, Rittal and sister companies EPLAN and German Edge Cloud offer the right solutions for the entire process, from design and engineering to construction and plant management.

RA Rodriguez will be bringing its range of quality engineering solutions to Southern Manufacturing and Electronics 2024. The three-day event will be taking place from 6-8 February 2024, at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre in Hampshire.

With the susietec toolset, Kontron offers a combination of software, hardware and expertise that enables companies to implement holistic digital transformation solutions. The Connect IoT bundle combines a powerful industrial computer platform with a low-code interface integration solution, which in the new release v3.1 offers additional versatile functions for machine manufacturer and operators.

Review Display Systems (RDS) has introduced a broad range of compact, high-performance OLED displays from Wisechip Semiconductor. RDS can supply and support a full and extensive portfolio of Wisechip OLED displays including dot matrix modules, character modules, circular display modules, transparent displays and flexible, plastic displays.