Further to detailed conversations with the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), and in the interests of health and safety for all concerned, the PPMA has taken the decision to postpone this year’s PPMA Show until 2021 (28-30 September). This decision has not been taken lightly. PPMA considered (more...)

Visitors to Nottingham Industrial Museum can now see firsthand how a diesel engine, used on a historic bus, operates following the donation of an ABB variable speed drive by Inverter Drive Systems (IDS). The 100-year-old diesel engine features cutaway sections that show visitors its internal (more...)

When it comes to selecting wear resistant tribo-polymers, the user is spoilt for choice at Igus. To find the right iglidur material for the appropriate application, Igus has now developed a new compact analogue configurator for 39 standard iglidur materials. Using overlay cards, the user can (more...)

CAE software provider EPLAN has re-launched its website (www.eplan.co.uk) to incorporate significant improvements that make it an even more valuable resource for current and prospective users of the EPLAN computer-aided engineering (CAE) software platform, as well for students and tutors in (more...)

RS Components has launched its latest initiative, tailored to all levels of education; from primary through to higher education. The series delivers aspirational online sessions to encourage innovative thinking and feed the students' creativity. ‘Friends of RS’ is a four-part series of (more...)

PTC and Rockwell Automation announced Factory Insights as a Service, a turnkey cloud solution that enables manufacturers to achieve unprecedented impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives. The new offering, unveiled during PTC’s Global Partner Summit event at the (more...)

An ABB drive installed to get a customer out of a tight spot is bringing a host of additional benefits, including more consistent end-product quality and enhanced fault finding. Framptons, a contract packing company, processes around 1.5 million litres of fruit juices and milk-based drinks each (more...)

Ruland and Reliance Precision have agreed to cooperate by offering Reliance designed and manufactured slit couplings through Ruland’s eCommerce platform and extensive worldwide distribution network. Ruland will stock and bore to size a wide selection of slit couplings in its Marlborough (more...)

Farnell is now stocking a wide range of pneumatic and electrical automation products from Festo. Festo is the performance leader in a range of industries including automotive, electronic equipment manufacturing, life sciences-, pharmaceutical and food processing and packaging. Farnell provides (more...)

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics has confirmed that it will be returning to Farnborough International next year on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of April 2021. The show has been rescheduled from its regular dates in February to avoid conflicting with other events postponed from 2020, and to (more...)