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Fieldbus, networking and safety solutions

Fieldbus, networking and safety solutions

Turck Banner managing director Tony Coglan discusses the company's ability to provide machine builders with turnkey solutions for automation, focusing on the company's range of fieldbus, networking and safety products, including its safety I/O module range.

27th August 2025

Pressure, level, temperature and flow instrumentation

Pressure, level, temperature and flow instrumentation

Total Pressure Solutions UK sales manager, Leon Anthony, discusses the company's range of pressure, level, temperature and flow instrumentation for a huge range of applications.

27th August 2025

Standard and custom automation components and systems

Standard and custom automation components and systems

SIGMATEK Automation business development manager, Ross Fenion, discusses the company's standard automation range, motion controllers, HMIs and I/O slices, as well as the company's capability to custom design bespoke systems to meet individual requirements.

26th August 2025

FLIR and Teledyne TapTone to provide cocktail of innovation at Drinktec

FLIR and Teledyne TapTone to provide cocktail of innovation at Drinktec

FLIR will partner with sister brand Teledyne TapTone and its patented range of inspection equipment at the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry: Drinktec 2025. The pair will demonstrate how machine builders and integrators can help beverage plants take their production and quality performance to the next level.

26th August 2025

Pneumatic and hydraulic components for machine automation

Pneumatic and hydraulic components for machine automation

Tom Parker sales manager, Seb Cole, highlights the key brands from around the world for which the company is a UK distributor. The company represents over 70 leading brands, including Aignep, Camozzi, CDC Pneumatics, CEJN, Colder Products Company, E.MC Pneumatics, FasTest, Festo, Master Pneumatic, Oetiker and Sicomat.

26th August 2025

Open and closed, incremental and absolute encoders from Renishaw

Open and closed, incremental and absolute encoders from Renishaw

Renishaw sales manager Dan Scully talks about the company's ranges of open and closed encoders, incremental and absolute, rotary and linear. In particular, he highlights FORTiS enclosed encoders that have been designed to meet the needs of position monitoring in the harsh environmental conditions of machine tools.

22nd August 2025

Motor condition monitoring

Motor condition monitoring

OMRON market development manager David Breckell discusses the company's new range of motor condition monitoring products. These can check vibration, temperature, that the load is in balance, insulation resistance and monitor the condition of the motor bearings.

22nd August 2025

Industrial connectivity and LED lighting

Industrial connectivity and LED lighting

Motion29 founder Steve Fisher discusses the company's industrial connectivity range, as well as LED lighting (including ATEX products) for machines to indicate status and enhance safety. Typical applications for the company's components include industrial automation, food manufacturing and automotive manufacture.

20th August 2025

Smart safety keeps automotive production in high gear

Smart safety keeps automotive production in high gear

A clever collaboration between the system integrator and the safety specialist ReeR has resulted in a highly efficient automated production line. Key to this is that any issues within the 14-metre-long production line are localised and don't cause the entire production process to halt.

20th August 2025

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