OMRON will showcase the smarter, faster, more efficient future of manufacturing at this year's Packaging Machinery and Manufacturing (PPMA) Show.

Rotor Clip has received the Caterpillar Supplier Excellence Award. This certificate is awarded to suppliers who consistently demonstrate excellence in service and delivery performance, meeting or exceeding Caterpillar's stringent standards for product quality and on-time delivery.

When a CNC machine manufacturer was looking for a spindle monitoring solution to eliminate the risk of damage during tool change operations, it turned to Contrinex.

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and University of Birmingham have founded a West Midlands RAS cluster as a catalyst to unlock the robotics and automation capabilities of the UK. Its intention is to connect various communities and lead to much greater utilisation of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) throughout industry.

Following the success of this year's Automation UK, the show organiser, Automate UK, is delighted to announce that next year's event will be significantly bigger than before. The previously co-located Machine Vision Conference (MVC), now known as Vision UK, will be fully integrated into Automation UK upon its return to the CBS Arena in Coventry between 7-8 May 2025.

NSK has announced the sale of Neuweg Fertigung, its German subsidiary based in Munderkingen, to British investor Stephen Lord and existing employees Willi Castro Santanella and Dominik Szell. The sale will take effect from 1 September 2024.

Automate UK announces that Machine Vision Conference (MVC) has been rebranded to Vision UK and in future will be incorporated within Automation UK. This will make it the UK's largest show dedicated to industrial automation, robotics and machine vision solutions. The annual show will return to the CBS Arena in Coventry between 7-8 May 2025.

Mitsubishi Electric has partnered with HAL Robotics to extend the rollout of operator-controlled industrial robots capable of executing variable, complex and uncommon tasks and applications.

Schneider Electric has announced the launch of its Schneider Electric Training programme in the UK and Ireland (UK&I).