Stephen Hayes, managing director at Beckhoff UK, explores why companies need to evaluate what mix of traditional and additive manufacturing makes sense for their business.

Idec has released a series of Safety Commander products that can be attached to commercially available tablets to enhance safety, robustness, and reliability by adding mechanical switches such as emergency stop switches and 3-position enabling (3PE) switches, as well as wired LAN communication (HT4P version).

Ensuring engineering is accessible and enjoyable, Igus has introduced the term ‘enjoyneering’. This encapsulates the fun element of learning and experiencing all about engineering in the metaverse, the iguverse.

SNAP SIGNAL by Turck Banner is a uniquely versatile, complete suite of products to facilitate the collection of data from machines that were never designed with data in mind.

With PROFIenergy, PIUK is now making its own contribution to environmental protection through the careful management of automation resources. PROFIenergy actively contributes to lasting competitive advantage.

Last year was also reported to be the hottest year on record by the Met Office. Without being alarmist, that is a serious issue that we cannot ignore. Rising temperatures are a global trend and they will have a major impact on your electrical equipment, says Christian Westwood, service manager at Rittal UK.

Mechan Controls is now launching a new range of Grabwire safety switches to fulfil the requirements of any machines where physical guarding is not possible. Made to the highest quality standard, the SL4 Grabwire is the future of conveyor guarding.

To better serve applications in mobie machinery, Micro-Epsilon has expanded its wireSENSOR WPS-MK88 and wireSENSOR WPS-K100 series of draw-wire sensors with larger measuring ranges and CANopen interface.

CC-Link IE TSN is the first open industrial Ethernet to combine gigabit bandwidth with TSN functions. As such, it has been adopted by leading development platform suppliers.

RS has launched a new circuit simulator tool for use by the 1.3 million members of the DesignSpark engineering community. The announcement coincides with the 13th anniversary of DesignSpark, which was initially launched on 5 July, 2010.