Europe is leaning harder on food imports at the exact moment those imports face tighter compliance checks. Supply chain visibility and regulatory readiness have converged into a single challenge, one that next-generation industrial intelligence is now equipped to solve, says Neil Smith, CPG President, Schneider Electric.

Machine vision offers a wide range of opportunities to support automation. An exciting use case in which the technology delivers significant added value can be found at the Swiss company Endress+Hauser, with machine vision software from MVTec.

Regal Rexnord has announced a strategic collaboration with robotics and automation leader FANUC to deliver a fully integrated collaborative robotics solution that combines expertise from many of its brands.

Mark your diary. On Wednesday 14th October, MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live land side by side at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park, for one jam-packed day of industrial automation insight. The event is free to attend for machine builders, systems integrators and manufacturing professionals.

Mouser Electronics is highlighting how its AI and Power Management Resource Hubs combine to help engineers address the central challenge in industrial edge AI deployment: designing power architectures that can reliably sustain production-grade inference at the edge.

Lenze's Cyber Security services and resources have been extended with the establishment of a Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) that identifies, assesses and communicates vulnerabilities.

Diary date: NAEC Stoneleigh Park | Wednesday, 14th October 2026, 09:00 - 15:00 | MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live.

The milon Q+ fitness machines use smooth-running STOBER helical bevel gearboxes to execute precise motions in fitness and rehabilitation applications.

HBK has signed an agreement with Astor Place Holdings to acquire Sentech, a premium sensor business based in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

The GEMU Group, in collaboration with the Heilbronn-Franken Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) and the German Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Association (VDMA), provided impetus on the strategically important topics of industrial data rooms and Digital Product Passports.