Automation and digitisation are advancing in the food industry, particularly in the area of inline quality management where continuously monitoring packaging production with machine vision increases efficiency and significantly reduces the number of recalls. With the support of MVTec Software, PackCheck has developed a modular solution for ensuring packaging quality.

From 1 December, the annual maxon UK and Ireland Advent Calendar will open, giving engineers the daily chance to win a great prize plus entry into the Christmas Eve grand prize draw. Each day until Christmas eve, maxon will give away a laptop backpack, and on Christmas Eve the grand prize draw will take place for a £100 Amazon Voucher.

Smart engineers with great ideas for using plastics are invited to apply for the 12th manus award 2025, the igus award for creative, ambitious and sustainable uses of plastic plain bearings. The competition has a strong sustainability focus, and the winners will receive up to 5,000 euros in prize money.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Mark Bettington, ICT and vision sales leader at Routeco about the company's unified robot control demo, and the integration of robotics into the wider mechatronics space.

Alva Industries, a manufacturer of frameless motors and owner and creator of FiberPrinting technology, has announced the release of a new online product selector tool for its SlimTorq Lite and Max series of slotless precision torque motors.

At the 2024 Smart Production Solutions show in Nuremberg, Inovance launched its articulated and SCARA industrial robot ranges in Europe.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Miklos Bakos, OEM offer manager at Schneider Electric, about robotics and automation.

At the Smart Production Systems (SPS) exhibition in Nuremberg, Contrinex's stand featured a display visualising the precision of its analogue inductive sensors, which were, on this occasion, used within its SMART measurement sensors. The display featured a metal cylinder, and visitors were encouraged to squeeze it like a fairground test of strength.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Mark Richards, UK sales manager at Beckhoff UK, about the company's XPlanar transport system.

PI has completed the construction of additional electronics production space at its Rosenheim, Germany site. With investments of around $2.3M and a 30% increase in space, PI is strengthening its global development and production centre and the economic development of the region.