Machine Building

Lenze boosts training across its Drive & Automation platform

Lenze has stepped up its global training programme - offering customers everything from basic service training to tailored one-day courses and immersive sessions backed by virtual machines. Lenze offers a wide range of courses - including commissioning, application and service training - backed up by the latest software technology.

4th May 2018

Renishaw supports UK and India business ties

On 19 April 2018, Rhydian Pountney, Managing Director of Renishaw UK Sales Limited, attended the Access India event as part of the Make in India initiative. Set alongside a backdrop of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, UK, the event gave British small and medium enterprises (SMEs) the opportunity to meet with large manufacturing businesses and government representatives, to facilitate bilateral investment and help SMEs to set up Indian manufacturing operations.

3rd May 2018

FLIR T500-Series receives "Red Dot: Best of the Best" 2018 Award

The FLIR T500-Series has been selected as a "Red Dot: Best of the Best" winner for 2018. The "Red Dot: Best of the Best" is awarded for groundbreaking product design and is given as the top prize for the best products in their category. As the second FLIR product to win the award in consecutive years, the T500-Series joins the FLIR Exx-Series as an outstanding professional tool recognised for superior design.

3rd May 2018

Phoenix Contact at PCB Design and Manufacture Live 2018

At this year's PCB Design & Manufacturing Live on the 10th of May at the National Motorcycle Museum, Phoenix Contact will be showcasing device connection technology. This year's highlights included the new TDPT TWIN design terminal blocks offering either push-in or screw connection in an identical package and suitable for currents up to 76 amps. The TWIN concept allows our customers to offer a choice of connection technology without changes to the PCB or enclosure.

3rd May 2018

Learn about mechanical tools for bearings at NSK academy

Anyone interested in learning about the best-practice mounting and dismounting of bearings using mechanical tools can register at the NSK academy (www.nskacademy.com) online training platform to discover the latest AIP+ (Added Value Programme) tutorial. Comprising a course, video and questionnaire, trainees can work their way through the new mechanical tools module, receiving a certificate upon successful completion.

3rd May 2018

ESAB Renegade ET 300iP receives Red Dot Award

The Red Dot Award has been a revered international seal of outstanding industrial design quality since 1955. ESAB Welding & Cutting Products announced that its Renegade ET 300iP DC TIG/MMA inverter has received the Red Dot Award for product design in the Industrial Equipment, Machinery and Automation category.

2nd May 2018

Single-use pharma tech on a digital DCS platform

Rockwell Automation to showcase digital transformation, security and single-use pharma capabilities and how it can help provide support at every step of the journey.

2nd May 2018

Pryor launch on-the-fly laser component marking at Automechanika

Pryor Marking Technology will be showcasing its comprehensive product range for identifying and tracing parts in the automotive manufacturing process at Automechanika 2018, with a strong focus on laser marking.

1st May 2018

Rockwell joins industry effort on OPC UA time-sensitive networks

Rockwell Automation is joining ABB, Belden, Bosch Rexroth, B&R, Cisco, Hilscher, KUKA, National Instruments, Parker Hannifin, Phoenix Contact, Pilz, Schneider Electric, TTTech, and WAGO (collectively known as Shapers) to create a communication system for real-time and sensor-to-cloud applications in industrial operations. The technology will be based on the OPC UA protocol, which allows easy and secure sharing of information across different vendor technologies, and the time-sensitive networking (TSN) suite of standards, which helps improve latency and robustness in converged industrial networks.

30th April 2018

Hylec celebrates Debox S and SL in line junction box success

Hylec-APL is celebrating the success of its Debox in-line cable junction box, which has sold over 3.5 million units to date. Designed to make installers and contractors' lives easier and save hours of installation time by including everything installers need to join cables, the original Debox was launched in 2015, the brainchild of Hylec-APL CEO, Andy Hatter. The second generation Debox S and Debox SL followed in September 2016, the Debox SL being the UK's first-ever 100 per cent screwless junction box design. This innovative, maintenance-free cable junction box from Hylec suits internal applications, including ring main lighting, LED lighting and power. It is IP20 protected and meets GWT 650 degreeC testing and British Standard EN 60670-22 for electrical accessories for fixed electrical installations.

27th April 2018