Machine Building

Visit Elesa at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2020

Elesa (UK) Ltd will once again exhibit at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics, which takes place at Farnborough from 11-13 February 2020. Elesa will be on stand F250 displaying its range of high-quality machine components, used for production equipment and often incorporated into end products, including such items as: levelling feet, castors, measuring, alignment, e.g. bulls eye levels, linear and angular measurement.

15th January 2020

How to keep up to date with product changes at Phoenix Contact

In order to make it easier for customers to keep up to date product changes, Phoenix Contact has added a Product Change / Discontinuation Notification (PCN/PDN) section to its website. Here customers can easily register to receive email updates on the complete range, or emails can be tailored to cover only the product groups of interest.

15th January 2020

How igus' VR experience transports people to German test lab

When igus visits customers or exhibits at trade shows, the company now takes more than free product samples. Using VR glasses, igus can instantly transport you to its factory in Germany to explore the world's largest test lab for tribopolymers.

15th January 2020

New elobau sales engineer for industrial and off-highway sectors

elobau UK is appointing Alex Roberts to their team in a new role as sales engineer for industrial and off-highway vehicle applications.

15th January 2020

Pryor demonstrate laser marking at Southern Manufacturing show

Pryor will showcase its marking technologies and traceability offerings when it returns to Southern Manufacturing and Electronics in February. Southern Manufacturing and Electronics marks the first exhibition for the company in 2020. The theme for this year's exhibition is laser marking, so Pryor will have a range of products on display for visitors to determine the best one for their application and requirements.

9th January 2020

igus awards seek smart and cost-effective automation ideas

What innovative ideas do you have to automate your business? igus has produced a short video inviting engineers to enter the 2020 ROIBOT awards for clever return-on-investment ideas with robots. drylin delta robots, drylin linear robots or articulated robolink robotic arms from igus make low-cost automation possible. Enter for a chance to win up to €5000 in prize money plus an invitation to the award ceremony at automatica, the leading exhibition for smart automation and robotics, which is held in Munich 16-19 June 2020.

9th January 2020

Boost your measurement and analysis skills with HBM's courses

HBM has launched its 2020 training calendar, providing a range of theoretical and technical courses, designed to help engineers and consultants get the most from their tools.

9th January 2020

Renishaw inspires female engineers with work experience scheme

The UK faces a skills shortage in the engineering sector and, according to EngineeringUK, the country will need 1.8 million new engineers and technicians by 2025. With the industry still dominated by men, it's essential that we attract more female engineers to fill these roles if we're to close the gap. Renishaw is taking a proactive role in promoting careers in engineering by running work experience schemes each year for students in years 10 to 13. Here Rebecca Bound, an Education Outreach Officer at the company, shares how Evie Ford, a student at Barnwood Park school, Gloucester, was inspired by the 2019 work experience week.

8th January 2020

Progress on Profinet-over-TSN specification

Since the PROFINET specification V2.4 was released with integrated TSN functionality, PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International) has consistently been working on the implementation of further components for a successful market launch - thereby firmly upholding the PI motto, "Go digital. Go PROFINET." This makes it especially necessary to exercise close coordination and cooperation with partners from other organisations and the various stakeholders within the active PI community, so that the TSN technology and application can work smoothly together across all levels of industrial automation.

7th January 2020

See Nord Drivesystems' latest products at LogiMAT 2020

From 10 to 12 March 2020, Nord Drivesystems will be presenting intelligent drive systems and innovative products for intralogistics at LogiMAT. The latest energy efficient IE5+ synchronous motors (pictured), condition monitoring concepts and a mobile service tool for NORD drive systems are the most important topics.

7th January 2020