Nidec Drives has deployed an automated solution to overcome the complexities of manual handling at its Newtown manufacturing site. In particular, variable speed drives have proved pivotal to the installation of a new conveyor system.

Textile handling machines push the boundaries of speed and precision, making a fit with the speed, precision, long range and reliability of Contrinex's analogue Inductive sensors. The sensor's accuracy of a few microns is used to measure the small changes in the position of a 'dancer' roller or 'follower', which tracks the fabric web's position and so indicates the web's tension.

WEG has agreed to form a collaborative partnership with Applied Maintenance Technology (AMT) to promote and use its wireless WEGscan monitoring system in the UK.

Global engineering technology company Renishaw's FORTiS encoders and laser calibration products have helped precision technology specialist HEAKE machine tools to produce consistently high-quality parts.

The Workshop Programme at MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, was expanded to include a series of Machinery Safety Masterclass talks. Here, Jason Reed, account manager at Pilz, speaks on keeping machinery safe in a digital world, offering advice on protecting industrial automation and control systems against manipulation and keeping them secure from the outside world.

Producing several million sustainable beverage cans per hour across its European plants, a can manufacturer needed to avoid unplanned machine downtime. Turning to Schaeffler's OPTIME condition monitoring solution has helped to prevent 360 hours of downtime.

Motion Control Products (MCP) has introduced a machine-building solution with integrated IoT functionality, designed to streamline and enhance equipment management and operations across various applications.

The introduction of a long-term industrial strategy is set to bring a surge of offshore manufacturing production back to the UK according to a major annual survey on the investment landscape for UK industry published today by Make UK and RSM UK.

Greaves 3D Engineering builds collapsible simulator with 45 igus components such as maintenance-free drylin linear and drive technology.

MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, SICK UK's Charlie Walker, digital solutions consultant, and David Hannaby, market product manager, look at how sensors provide the foundation for the next step in the digital journey.