Novotek UK and Ireland has furthered its growth into the UK market with the opening of its new site in Leeds, Yorkshire. The new site provides much-needed expansion space that will accommodate a doubling of Novotek’s team, and features an innovation lab where customers’ engineering, IT (more...)

The automotive industry is moving fast into an era where electric power is used as the primary power source with hydrocarbon fuels in a supporting role. The use of the “Plug-in Hybrid” concept presents challenges to powertrain designers that demand new technologies to define the (more...)

Huco has launched an e-commerce service that allows end users to order precision couplings direct from its manufacturing headquarters. The online platform has been created to allow small-volume orders to be delivered globally, with next day shipping on standard orders. Huco offers a variety of (more...)

A new seminar theme is launching at this year’s UKIVA Machine Vision Conference. Both robotics and vision have made immense contributions to the automation of manufacturing processes, and this year our new seminar is set to provide you with a lot more information. The seminars will focus on (more...)

OEM Automatic has entered a new partnership with Sony for image sensing solutions. The new partnership offers customers a wide range of cameras, thereby providing a reliable, dependable total machine vision solution from one source encompassing lenses, lighting, cameras, industrial PCs, software and (more...)

The CLPA has announced the completion of the specification for “CC-Link IE TSN” –a next generation network based on the current CC-Link IE. CC-Link IE TSN was developed to meet future market demands and has added Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) technology, which are additional (more...)

KTR UK has appointed Mark Humphrey as its new business development manager in charge of distribution. The 28-year-old will be tasked with working on a national level with KTR’s existing distribution network, as well as identifying and developing opportunities with new business. Mark joins (more...)

Condition monitoring specialist Sensonics has delivered the final tranche of machinery protection systems to the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant project in the UAE. Following a five year design and manufacturing phase, the equipment delivery – made up of nearly 400 Sentry G3 4-channel protection (more...)

Here’s a challenge: build your own Hyperloop pod prototype and test it at Elon Musk’s SpaceX headquarters in California. Who said engineering can’t be fun? Engineering students from the University of Edinburgh who were accepted to participate in the exciting SpaceX Hyperloop Pod (more...)

This year the UK has seen brushfires rage across large areas of heath and moorland, a problem that may become increasingly common as climate change drives global warming. New techniques and increased levels of expertise will be needed to combat these. Here we look at the potential of some emerging (more...)