A flagship project by automation and measurement technology specialist Xactools from Germany demonstrates how artificial intelligence can help visual inspection make quantum leaps, with help from IDS Imaging Development Systems.

When a food manufacturing company needed an incline conveying system to replace an outdated paternoster lift on its packaging line, it turned to AdaptTech for a solution.

Apex Dynamics has been selected as the supplier of a key component by rotary measurement specialist Rotary Precision Instruments (RPI) UK because of the fast delivery, low backlash, low noise and good value offered by its AF Series precision planetary gearboxes.

Delta's automation solutions have played a pivotal role in enhancing the production capabilities of Tecnobox, a box forming machinery company in Spain. This transformation has not only fortified Tecnobox's position in a competitive market, but it has also set new standards in the industry for technological advancement and environmental responsibility.

Apex Hydraulics was approached by a client that had been partnering for many years with a local steel rolling mill. As machine designers, they had been commissioned to redesign, manufacture and install a new steel plate shear press with cutting plate.

When a supplier of injection moulded parts for the automotive industry needed a reliable method of checking that threaded inserts had been correctly mounted, it turned to inductive sensors from Contrinex.

A modern PLC with REST-API for a standard palletising system – this is what the robot automation company Robot ART was looking for. And it found it in the form of ctrlX CORE from Bosch Rexroth.

When HT Robotics was looking for a solution to regulate user access to a new mobile workstation for the efficient loading and unloading of CNC machines, it turned to Pilz, and the PITreader S modular access permission system.

Smart 2D profile sensors from Baumer are playing a key role in an automated sandwich and filled rolls production line at Germany company Weber Maschinebau. Baumer’s OXM 2D sensor provides precise edge control and positioning data, and delivers the calculated coordinates correctly in the units required.

When a customer required a pallet transfer system for the production of gate valves for water pipes, on which the valves could be assembled and buffered, it turned to mk.