Machine Building

Essentra Components cuts customer assembly time

The French company Conceptole specialises in the design and manufacture of standardised and custom metal parts and assemblies, and Essentra Components has just helped them save on their assembly costs

20th January 2021

Why use a fieldbus? New video explains key benefits

This video, published by the PROFIBUS Group, explains a dramatic evolution in industrial automation: the transition from 4-20 mA to digital fieldbuses. It compares the two and highlights key benefits and new business models arising from the implementation of fieldbuses

20th January 2021

One way hinges: the discreet way to hang machine doors

Wixroyd has a product in its portfolio that offers machine builders an interesting way to hang access panels and doors

20th January 2021

Henkel Loctite highlights advantages of threadlocker

There are various ways of securing threaded fasteners against vibration loosening in machines, and Henkel Loctite is highlighting this one

20th January 2021

New all-in-one industrial PCs

With its newly introduced all-in-one (AIO) solutions, Phoenix Contact now offers industrial PCs with a completely closed die-cast aluminum housing (IP65)

19th January 2021

Modular safety relay claimed to be world first

Pilz says that its all-new myPNOZ is the world’s first batch size 1 safety relay

18th January 2021

Edge computing hardware and software choices for machine builders

RDS and AAEON offer machine builders an even greater choice of hardware and software to build high performance, integrated solutions for smart applications that require vision data to be processed at the edge

18th January 2021

Certified Machinery Safety Expert course on 18th January

In conjunction with TÜV NORD, Pilz Automation UK is hosting its first CMSE Course of 2021. It starts on 18th January and lasts for four days

15th January 2021

Improving communication with (and between) machines

Lenze has published a White Paper discussing PackML, a programming standard defined by OMAC, the Organisation for Machine Automation & Control. Here, Lenze's Marc Vissers provides machine builders with an insight into the paper

15th January 2021

Danfoss buys Artemis Intelligent Power

Danfoss says it will allow them to begin the global commercial rollout of its Digital Displacement® pump technology, a disruptive low-carbon opportunity with applications in the industrial and off-highway markets

15th January 2021