A challenge in automated assembly systems is ensuring the protection and safety of the operators without compromising high product throughput or quality. Assembly benches provide many manufacturing businesses with flexible and efficient processes, but they can be challenging to implement with robust automation and machine safety solutions, as the experts at PLUS Automation explain.

Lenze Selection pursues one overriding goal with its SELENA engineering platform: Making a mechanical designer's life a little easier.

Fortress Safety participated at SPS - Smart Production Solutions 2024 in Nuremberg. The event provided a platform to connect with customers, channel partners and safety professionals, transforming the company's booth into a vibrant hub of interaction, learning and innovation.

Nuts are an essential component in many assemblies. However, they challenge automation systems because of their low metal content for detection with inductive sensors or because the variety of angles and reflections that nuts can present to photoelectric sensors are problematic. Contrinex offers a solution.

Molex has completed its acquisition of AirBorn, a global manufacturer of rugged and highly reliable connectors and electronic components designed for mission-critical applications across aerospace and defence, commercial air, space exploration, medical and industrial markets.

Recently launched by MOONS' and available in the UK from its UK distribution partner Mclennan, the new AW series 'Industrial Protective Stepper Motors' are aimed at harsh environment motion control applications in food and beverage production, medical industries and arduous industrial environments.

The smooth and continuous transmission of power, data, and signals between rotating and stationary parts is crucial across many applications. Bearings are a critical part of this equation, and advancements in their design, such as the integration of Slip Rings and Thin Section Bearings, have made them indispensable. Carter Manufacturing, in collaboration with Silverthin, excels in integrating thin section bearings into slip rings.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Jason Reed, account manager at Pilz about the new Machine Regulation and how it addresses security.

IMI has released a series of on-demand webinars, providing an overview of electric motion solutions so that engineers assessing their own application need can gain a better understanding of the product selection process and the primary technical considerations.

New optical sensors feature enhanced detection capabilities and faster commissioning thanks to Leuze's Power PinPoint LED technology.