Michell Instruments has announced the launch of a ground-breaking new development for quality control in natural gas processing and transmission. The CDP301 hydrocarbon and water dew-point tester is a fully portable, manual-visual dew-point instrument that uses the chilled mirror technique for (more...)

Cobots are key to the future of manufacturing, enhancing production efficiency, flexibility and quality with the help of camera and vision technology, says Omron’s Peter Lange. Collaborative robots (cobots) have a key role in current and future trends in industrial automation and production. (more...)

Motor Control Warehouse, on behalf of Aberystwyth Cliff Railway, had a challenge to solve. The company realised the railway’s control system was becoming harder to maintain due to components being made obsolete. For a solution it turned to Control Techniques. Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, (more...)

ElectroCraft has expanded its MobilePower product family with the MPW wheel drive. The MPW wheel drive features a high torque-density brushless DC motor with a heavy duty integrated planetary gearbox mounted inside the hub of a lightweight aluminium wheel with custom tread. Designed for mobile robot (more...)

Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy once said that photography is simply painting with light. Light Revolution, a lighting and camera system manufacturer for the film, photography and photogrammetry industry, with the support of mechatronic drive motor specialist Electro Mechanical Systems (EMS), has (more...)

With the global market launch of the new MX 025H crossbelt sorter, Interroll has extended its portfolio of automatic sorting solutions to include a new high-performance system capable of handling up to 20,000 conveyed goods per hour. This new solution also allows much heavier and larger goods to be (more...)

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is the fourth industrial revolution, pushing industry towards a more automated, and sophisticated manufacturing process. As devices, systems and processes become increasingly digitised and interconnected, the Internet of Things (IoT) opens a wealth of opportunities for (more...)

Vola, a Danish manufacturer of luxury sanitary and kitchen fittings, has opened a new factory that incorporates a fleet of nine mobile robots from Omron. This represents one of the most ambitious industrial mobile robot projects in the Nordics. The new robot fleet works side-by-side with people and (more...)

The global manufacturing industry spends a great deal of time and effort discussing digitalisation and how it will affect production in the future. However, many of the ideas and principles remain abstract, and it is often difficult to portray the many facets of digitalisation in manufacturing in (more...)

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the TMF8801-EVM evaluation kit from ams. The TMF8801-EVM allows engineers to evaluate the operation of the ams TMF8801 1D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor for applications such as smartphones, industrial robotics, and autonomous appliances. The ams TMF8801-EVM, (more...)