Get ready for MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live this October
1 day agoMark your diary. On Wednesday 14th October, MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live land side by side at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park, for one jam-packed day of industrial automation insight. The event is free to attend for machine builders, systems integrators and manufacturing professionals.
Mouser AI and power management resource hubs help engineers deliver industrial Edge AI
1 day agoMouser Electronics is highlighting how its AI and Power Management Resource Hubs combine to help engineers address the central challenge in industrial edge AI deployment: designing power architectures that can reliably sustain production-grade inference at the edge.
Compact 3D stereo camera system for robotics and logistics
TodayThe Basler 3D Stereo mini camera from OEM Automatic offers a solution for price-sensitive applications in mobile robots (AMRs and AGVs), warehouse drones and compact automation solutions. As a compact 3D camera system, it enables reliable depth detection and precise object recognition.
Non-contact, RFID coded safety switch
TodayNorstat is now offering the ODNK, a series of standalone non-contact RFID safety switches.
Keeping things running smoothly in logistics and production
1 day agoWhether used in sorting plants, elevators or offshore cranes: Nothing would be moving in modern logistics and production processes without guide rollers. Guide rollers ensure precise movement along defined tracks and carry loads with perfect reliability - and they do so in continuous operation both indoors and outdoors. For this vast variety of applications, norelem offers four product series with different materials and degrees of hardness.
Right-sizing control and motion without compromising future flexibility
3 days agoWhile some machines require advanced motion control and high-performance hardware, many do not. Here, Karl Walker, business development manager at Beckhoff Automation UK, explains why right-sizing automation can reduce costs and provide a stronger foundation for future growth.
European Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 is replacing Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Technically, it has already come into force but there is a transition period during which machinery is still being CE marked to the old Directive. You can download a free copy of the Guide to the New Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 by completing the form here.
The MachineBuilding.net Guide to Food and Beverage Industry Machine Design provides information, hints and tips to help designers create state-of-the-art yet cost effective systems that meet applicable regulations and standards, while also providing the necessary levels of productivity, quality and reliability.
Free white paper supports compliance with machinery safety standard EN 60204-1
835 days agoSafe Machine has published a new white paper, 'EN 60204-1 for machine builders and panel builders – a guide to avoiding common errors'. Running to fourteen pages, the free publication presents many ways in which machinery often fails to comply with this safety standard's requirements.
Spiers Engineering Safety publishes the ultimate guide to PUWER
1199 days agoGetting your head around PUWER inspections and PUWER planning can be difficult when you have many other things to be thinking about too. Spiers Engineering Safety has created the Ultimate Guide to PUWER which will walk you through the basics, and help you make informed decisions. This guide will also support learners working towards their Certified PUWER Assessor Qualification (CPA).
White paper sheds light on the challenges and solutions when using optical sensors
1239 days agoA free-to-download white paper from sensing and instrumentation specialist Baumer considers all the challenges of why ambient light has such a significant influence on the performance of optical sensors and provides some practical solutions.














