A new plug-in connector from motion plastic expert Igus has won an ‘Excellent Product Design’ award in the prestigious German Design Awards 2021. The new Igus Module Connect Adapter, praised by judges for its innovation, has been designed to suit limited spaces where a large number of (more...)

Electrocomponents has reached an agreement to acquire Needlers, a leading UK supplier of PPE and hygiene products. Needlers will join the Electrocomponents portfolio of brands: RS Components (RS), Allied Electronics & Automation, RS PRO, OKdo, DesignSpark and IESA. Needlers is a leading (more...)

Just launched by Henkel is Loctite XPLORE, a new e-learning platform that ensures the brand’s unmatched expertise in engineering adhesive technology is available to assembly and maintenance professionals, anytime and anywhere. Although online support and tutorials are nothing new for (more...)

Providing the right vision sensor for robotic applications which provide maximum functional and operational flexibility combined with easy process integration has become an increasingly important focus for sensing and instrumentation specialist Baumer. Its expertise in this area of making robots (more...)

Bots UK is encouraging the use of collaborative robots by making them accessible to the UK market through a flexible hiring service. Businesses can hire and test the robots’ suitability and explore the benefits that automation can bring into the workforce. Bots Automation provides training (more...)

Messe München is expanding the Automatica portfolio in summer 2021 with a compact, new event format: While the regular Automatica will only take place again in 2022, Automatica Sprint will celebrate its premiere at the Munich exhibition center from June 22 to 24, 2021. With a clear focus on (more...)

UK bearing manufacturer Michell Bearings is celebrating a special milestone as this year marks its centenary. In 1905, prior to the incorporation of Michell Bearings, founder A.G.M Michell registered patents in Britain and Australia for his tilting pad bearing invention, a concept which is widely (more...)

The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA), which promotes the widespread usage of the CC-Link open industrial network family, has announced that Analog Devices (ADI) has become a CLPA Board Member. Through active participation in CLPA management, ADI aims to expand its business globally, especially in (more...)

TÜV SÜD UK has launched a UKCA Technical Advisory service to help businesses meet the new conformity assessment requirements for goods being placed on the UK market from 1 January 2021. Although the UKCA mark will replace the EU’s CE marking, different rules apply to different (more...)

November 2020 marks a significant milestone for the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA), as the organisation will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Over these two decades, the CLPA has been supporting automation vendors and end users worldwide by providing state-of-the-art open network solutions that (more...)