WEG will exhibit at MachineBuilding Live and Food Manufacturing Live, held on October 14, 2026 at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park. Visitors will have the opportunity to speak with WEG experts about their machinery and production challenges, and discuss how motor, drive, gearboxes and digital technologies can improve efficiency, reliability and performance.

To further enhance the performance of its SmartDispense system, Heineken turned to long-term engineering partner IMI and its team of industrial automation engineers.

Comau has designed and validated an order preparation solution tested within Decathlon's e-commerce fulfilment operations as part of MASTERLY, a European initiative designed to accelerate the transition from traditional mass production to highly flexible, customised manufacturing systems.

ABB's Machine Automation division (B&R), will showcase innovative automation solutions designed to help packaging machine builders and manufacturers increase flexibility, improve performance, and accelerate time-to-market at PACK EXPO International 2026.

Siemens has entered a partnership with the German B2B platform Sparepartsnow to make refurbished Siemens automation products more easily accessible to industrial customers. Through Sparepartsnow's digital marketplace, customers can now purchase manufacturer-refurbished Siemens products.

Rockwell Automation has announced a new cybersecurity-focused season of ROKStudios, its thought leadership video series featuring in-depth interviews with customers and Rockwell Automation consultants.

Back for 2026, this November will see FANUC open the doors to its UK headquarters to demonstrate how automation is now accessible for every manufacturing business, large or small.

Westermo has been awarded an EcoVadis Platinum Medal after achieving a score of 89 out of 100. The result places Westermo among the top 1% of more than 150,000 companies assessed worldwide and provides customers with independent verification of the company's sustainability performance.

Zebra Technologies will debut new solutions across its AI and 3D machine vision portfolio at VISION, 6-8 Oct. in Stuttgart to meet the growing demand among logistics organisations that want to improve middle-mile operations.

Manufacturers are being urged to strengthen cybersecurity throughout their supply chains amid a sharp rise in attacks targeting trusted software providers, suppliers and third-party partners. The warning, from Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems Division UK, follows a recent supply chain attack involving disk imaging software that affected thousands of systems worldwide, including those within the manufacturing sector.