Machine Building

Girls get into STEM engineering at Renishaw

Renishaw has hosted a series of Girls into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) engineering days in June, 2017 at its Miskin site in South Wales. These three activity days for local school girls, on June 19th, 22nd and 29th, aimed to inspire the female engineers of the future with hands-on activities and provided an introduction to career opportunities in the sector.

22nd September 2017

Insights: Performance monitoring for Universal Robots

The Robotiq team just launched Insights, a web application that measures Universal Robots performance. Insights gives a real-time view of the robot's key performance indicators in operation.

22nd September 2017

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group at PPMA 2017

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group will present highlights from its broad range of positive displacement pumps and liquid filling technologies at the 2017 PPMA Exhibition. Visitors to Stand G56 will see at first hand a range of products and solutions from three distinct parts of the Group:

21st September 2017

Online course 'Risk Assessment 101' for machine builders

Compliance inSight Consulting says its new online training course for machinery risk assessments provides 'Everything You Need to Know about Risk Assessment.' The following topics are covered in the 12-week Risk Assessment 101 course:

21st September 2017

One week to go until the biggest PPMA Show in 12 years

In just one week, more than 350 exhibitors representing 1500 brands will descend on the NEC, Birmingham for the biggest PPMA Show in 12 years. Taking place from 26-28 September 2017, co-located with Interplas, TCT show and Sensors and Instrumentation, the PPMA Show 2017 promises to deliver insights into the latest machinery products, technologies and materials, building on its reputation as the UK's unmissable, free-to-attend processing and packaging machinery exhibition.

20th September 2017

John Clarke is new Spelsberg Area Sales Manager for West region

Spelsberg UK is supporting its continued growth with the appointment of John Clarke as Area Sales Manager for the West region. John's recruitment is the latest in a series of appointments that has grown the external and internal sales teams in response to growing demand from new and existing customers for customised enclosures at industry-beating lead times.

20th September 2017

Mini-IO adopted as an IEC standard

TE Connectivity (TE) is announcing that the Mini-IO connector has been adopted as an international standard (IEC 61076-3-122) by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

19th September 2017

IPH and Brammer combine to create industrial supplies leader

IPH and Brammer have combined to create a European leader in the distribution of industrial supplies. Advent International, which took Brammer private from the London Stock Exchange earlier this year, completed the acquisition of IPH on Friday to enable this combination.

19th September 2017

igus white paper: how IIoT is transforming our world

igus has published a white paper entitled "˜How the Industrial Internet of Things has led to the development of next-generation smart plastics with sensing capabilities built in.' Set to grow at a CAGR of 8 per cent from now until 2020, when IIoT will reach a value of over $150bn, the paper assesses the advantages and benefits it brings to businesses operating on global markets.

15th September 2017

IVS opens up its vision expertise to assist machine builders

Industrial Vision Systems (IVS) has opened up its vision expertise and services to more UK & European-based machine builders. IVS already works with some of the largest machine builders in the UK. However, by leaning on its experience in building vision inspection cells, IVS hopes this will help plug the gap in terms of the pitfalls and issues that systems integrators and special purpose machine manufacturers face in integrating complex vision system applications.

15th September 2017