Festo is excited to be attending MachineBuilding.Live and to be highlighting its latest innovations in factory automation. The company’s focus is on reducing your design and build times with its automation remote IO control architecture, innovations in flexible valve terminals (new VTUX range) and servo drives.

Mclennan returns to MachineBuilding.Live 2024 with its new cost-optimised MSM series stepper motors – aimed at OEMs and offering an extended torque performance and smooth operation that perfectly suits dynamic motion positioning and speed control applications.

Tim Stratton, tooling department leader at the Schaeffler UK plant in Sheffield, discusses some of the cost savings the plant is seeing by investing in 3D printers for production tooling, as well as additional benefits in health and safety, ergonomics and freeing up valuable CNC machining capacity.

When axial rotation requires control, the perfect solution is a torsion spring from Lee Spring. These compactly wound springs look like a common compression spring placed on a post or inside a cylinder but are activated by radial force applied to the end legs.

Stop by the British Encoder Products Co stand at MachineBuilding.Live to see the company’s new Model A36R encoder with blue LED and reflective sensor technology that deliver accurate high-resolution feedback in a compact thru-bore housing.

Featuring a built-in accelerometer, the new HEIDENHAIN ECI 123 Splus rotary encoder enables position measurement and vibration analysis in a single component. This added functionality simplifies condition monitoring and maintenance planning in high-wear automated systems.

KEB Automation says its new C6-X1 HMI panel provides machine builders with all the basic requirements for the future of digital manufacturing, enabling them to benefit from the advantages of Industry 4.0. The panel can be flexibly attached anywhere on the machine, with IP67 protection eliminating the need for mounting in a control cabinet.

Kollmorgen has announced the latest update to its AKD2G servo drive with new features that broaden support for additional communications protocols.

From optimising designs to improving production processes, generative AI is set to have a massive impact on the manufacturing industry. Stephen Hayes, managing director of Beckhoff UK, explores the benefits and risks.

igus chainflex cables do not contain harmful PTFE and PFAS chemicals, likely to be banned by the EU – now demonstrated with the ‘PFAS free’ seal.