To boost production in order to meet increased demand Clipper Teas invested in a specially designed system for packing the tea bags from the point where they exit the tea bag making machine. Frontline Packaging was chosen to design, manufacture or source all of the elements and it recommended the (more...)

With the introduction of openROBOTICS, partners COMAU and B&R are opening up new dimensions of robotics integration for machinery and production lines. The solution is based on a full line-up of COMAU robots that handle payloads ranging from 3 to 650 kilograms. “With completely uniform (more...)

RS Components has announced a significant extension to its range of pneumatic components from SMC. Targeting machine builders developing new pneumatics-based applications as well as maintenance engineers, the additions to the SMC pneumatic components range comprise more than 600 products including (more...)

The Loctite ‘Success Secured’ free webinar series has proved a very popular customer service during 2015 and Henkel is now extending its appeal with the introduction of new topics in 2016. The first is Structural Bonding which explores how this joining method outperforms mechanical (more...)

Routeco is very proud to announce that on the 10th November 2015 we have signed a UK distribution agreement with SMC Pneumatics (UK), which will further enhance our product portfolio offering to our OEM Machine Builder customers, as we continuously strive to enhance our position as our (more...)

Festo has developed a high level handling system for use in the new oKtopure DNA extraction robot from LGC. The fully-automatic robot has been developed for plant and animal breeders, and molecular biologists who often face technical challenges when analysing DNA. The oKtopure robot is designed to (more...)

RS Components is offering a special bundle that combines advanced 3D modelling software and 3D printing hardware, and which provides advanced and highly affordable 3D design and prototyping capabilities. RS is offering a 40% reduction in price of the RS IdeaWerk 3D printer (more...)

What happens when you are making a piece of kit, or even worse have designed, built and launched the machine, and the position sensor becomes unreliable? As frustrating as this issue is for engineers, when using traditional position sensing methods it does happen, particularly for applications in (more...)

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has developed a concept of segmentation in order to allow better focus on customer applications. By applying this approach across the entire company operation, it is expected to deliver an improved focus on solving application based problems and delivering (more...)

Mechanical power transmissions experts, Centa Transmissions, have launched a brand new flexible coupling specifically designed for testing within systems before they are installed or constructed. ‘CENTAWAVE’ is a torsionally stiff and homokinetic link coupling that facilitates for (more...)