Machine Building

Kawasaki Robotics is finalist in Plastics Industry Awards 2019

Warrington-based Kawasaki Robotics has been shortlisted as a finalist in the prestigious Plastics Industry Awards 2019. The news comes following the success of an innovative robot installation at UK moulders SynthoTec, who are using a Kawasaki robot to boost production of plastic bearing cages. Unusually, SynthoTec chose to install and commission the new robot unit itself, rather than follow the traditional path of having either an integrator or the robot supplier themselves do it for them.

30th July 2019

Stemmer Imaging and MVTec co-operate in UK and Ireland

Stemmer Imaging AG and MVTec Software GmbH are expanding their co-operation for the distribution of Halcon and Merlic machine vision software to include the United Kingdom and Ireland. This will take effect from 1st September 2019, and further builds on the current distribution agreement between the two companies which already covers 14 European countries.

30th July 2019

Insight into Sick's Industry 4.0 smart sensors factory at PPMA

Sick is inviting PPMA Total Show visitors to gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into its new Industry 4.0 smart sensor production facility in Freiburg, Southern Germany.

30th July 2019

Sick launches SensorApp for programmable 2D vision sensors

Sick is launching Presence Inspection, a freely downloadable, easy to set-up SensorApp for its Inspector P family of programmable 2D vision cameras. The addition extends the performance and versatility of Sick's 2D offering for presence/absence quality inspection, validation and process control tasks.

26th July 2019

Show preview: Northern Manufacturing & Electronics 2019

Northern Manufacturing & Electronics returns to EventCity, Manchester on 2 and 3 October 2019. While uncertainty clouds the immediate prospects for manufacturing, there are still plenty of reasons why support for the show remains as buoyant as ever.

26th July 2019

Rittal Ltd celebrates 40th anniversary in Rotherham

2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Rittal Ltd in the UK. The company started its operations in Rotherham in July 1979, providing distribution, sales and marketing support for its customers.

25th July 2019

Universal Robots completes UK Cobot Automation Tour

Universal Robots has completed its six-month cobot automation tour. The events have introduced the power of robotics and automation to a new generation of UK manufacturers, demonstrating the potential to address current challenges around labour shortages and production efficiency.

25th July 2019

Harting ix Industrial connector wins German Innovation Award

Harting Technology Group has received the coveted German Innovation Award 2019 for their ix Industrial range. The connector impressed the German Design Council and won the award for "Excellence in Business to Business". The German Innovation Award acknowledges products and systems that clearly set themselves apart from conventional approaches, thanks to their user focus and added value.

25th July 2019

Video shows sub-zero testing of igus cables in energy chains

Only real long-term tests under realistic conditions provide useful information about the reliability and service life of cables in energy chains. igus has produced a video in its climatic test chamber in Cologne. Here chainflex cables move continuously in energy chains where they are subjected to temperatures down to -40degC; this is not done just once but millions of times.

25th July 2019

Free three-month trial of risk assessment software

RiskMach, part of the Spiers Group, is offering a free three-month trial of its RiskMach software, the objective of which is to provide a platform for achieving compliance in a way that is integrated into a business's normal ways of working so users barely know they are doing it. This is referred to as "˜invisible compliance'.

24th July 2019