John Jackson reports on an EtherNet/IP proof-of-concept system planned for process automation lab at Industriepark Höchst. ODVA announced activities with NAMUR, an international user association of automation technology in the process industries, to advance the adoption of industrial Ethernet (more...)

Basingstoke based LG Motion has designed and manufactured a customised beamline detector positioning system for Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. The system illuminates miniscule crystal samples with an X-ray beam and the detectors are positioned to a (more...)

November's digital issue of Industrial Technology incorporates the autumn edition of UKIVA's Vision in Action magazine, providing an extra 32 pages of vision industry news and application stories. Find out about smart cameras and vision sensors for robots, get help in choosing an embedded vision (more...)

Igus has introduced a new variant of its iglidur tribopolymer material, RW370, that complies with EU fire protection standard EN 45545 for railway vehicles. Resistant to harsh media and extremely durable, the new material is well-suited to a wide range of bearing applications within rail (more...)

An ISO assured manufacturer of quality wiring harnesses and cable assemblies attributes at least part of its on-going success to its relationship with electrical enclosure company Spelsberg UK. Birford Cable & Harness Ltd of Wolverhampton works closely with customers in a number of industries (more...)

Renishaw worked with the Jet Age Museum to additively manufacture (3D print) four sets of unusual cockpit brackets for a Hawker Typhoon aircraft, built almost exclusively in the UK city during the 1940s. Using original drawings from 1938, Renishaw’s engineers modelled each bracket from (more...)

The UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) has developed a brand new event for the imaging industry in the UK. The first ever UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition (www.ukiva.org/mvc) will take place at ArenaMK in Milton Keynes on 27 April 2017. With 50 technical vision seminars and 30 (more...)

Scottish Water has cut the risk of pump set failure at its Mannofield water treatment works in Aberdeen with the installation of an ABB motor and low harmonic variable-speed drive (VSD). The 560kW matched AC motor and drive replace a soft start and 30-year-old motor on a pump set at the treatment (more...)

Why is asparagus one of the most expensive vegetables in Europe? Because harvesters have to painstakingly pierce each stalk individually. A robot could change this, and engineers at the Bremen Centre for Mechatronics (BCM) are developing one. It works with harvesting tools, which run on precision (more...)

The Igus humanoid open platform robot, developed in conjunction with the University of Bonn, is powered by motor-driven, slewing rings. The humanoid open platform robot was developed in conjunction with Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems group, which conducts research in the areas of (more...)