Machine Building

New update for official guide to the Machinery Directive

On 19 July 2017 the European Commission published Edition 2.1 of The Guide to the Application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. This Update covers amendments made to the Machinery Directive by the Directive 2009/127/EC on Pesticide Equipment and the Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles (tractors). In addition, there is new guidance on 'partly completed machinery' and 'assemblies', and clarifications and corrections have been inserted relating to the following concepts:

27th July 2017

Register online for Sensors & Instrumentation 2017

Sensors & Instrumentation, the UK's only national sensors show sponsored by industry giant Mouser, is creating an early buzz with hundreds having already registered to attend ahead of this year's event, which takes place at the NEC, Birmingham on 26/27 September 2017.

26th July 2017

New tools for instant device analytics and collaboration

Rockwell Automation is enabling teams on the plant floor to make better, quicker decisions with the FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices appliance and a FactoryTalk TeamONE Standard Edition app. These off-the-shelf offerings require minimal configuration and can help solve common maintenance problems faster, which minimises unplanned downtime. The appliance and app quickly help to improve reaction times for maintenance teams and assist decision makers with machine health and diagnostics analytics for industrial devices and systems.

26th July 2017

Lenze presents recipes for the processing and packaging industry

Lenze is serving up innovative drive and automation concepts for a virtual world on Stand J56 at PPMA Show in September. Demonstrations show how Virtual Reality can give engineers an insight to the operation of complex mechanics and software, leading to faster machine development. Visitors who participate in a demonstration can take away their personal VR viewer. Lenze engineers will also explain new options for data acquisition, analysis and storage of a machine's operating data in the Cloud along with remote support communication technologies for predictive maintenance.

25th July 2017

Panduit and Uptake to deliver actionable data analytics

Panduit and Uptake have announced an agreement to bring actionable insights to customers in manufacturing and industrial process businesses based on Uptake's Software-as-a-Service products. Panduit's IntraVUE and SynapSense edge data collection capabilities and Uptake's predictive analytics product suite and advanced data science capabilities will provide a powerful system delivering actionable manufacturing plant condition monitoring analytics.

25th July 2017

2017 Product Line Card available from JPR Electronics website

JPR Electronics has made its 2017 Line Card available for customers to download from their website. With nearly 70 manufacturers of cables, connectors, semiconductors, sensors, keyboards, switches, relays, wound components, power supplies, enclosures, cases, motors, fans and tools JPR can supply any quantity from a single item, to productions quantities, fulfil the requirements of a complete bill of materials or provide a just-in-time kitting service to OEMs

25th July 2017

PI UK to support Connected Manufacturing at Advanced Engineering

PI UK will be be exhibiting and presenting in the NEW Connected Manufacturing Zone at Advanced Engineering 2017, where the company's involvement in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 through PROFINET and IO-Link is particularly relevant.

24th July 2017

Rockwell Automation continues to expand MES applications

Rockwell Automation continues to build out its scalable MES applications to allow operations to configure their environment without programming, add more applications, increase DCS process system integration, and expand deployment options. A new suite of capabilities improves functionality across its portfolio of scalable MES applications based on the FactoryTalk ProductionCentre platform from Rockwell Automation. The portfolio includes FactoryTalk Production, FactoryTalk Performance, FactoryTalk Quality and soon FactoryTalk Warehouse applications.

24th July 2017

Stemmer Imaging: positive end of a business year and an era

Stemmer Imaging ended its business year 2016/17 on 30 June 2017 with a turnover of 88.7 million Euros and an exchange rate adjusted growth of 6 per cent. After 44 years, the company's founder Wilhelm Stemmer is handing the company over to proven successors.

24th July 2017

igus to showcase Industry 4.0 at Northern Manufacturing 2017

igus is returning to this year's Northern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition held at Event City, Manchester, on 27-28 September 2017. Visitors to the stand (D44) will see a wide range of cost-effective, lightweight and maintenance-free bearings and cable management systems for a variety of applications.

21st July 2017