The machine builder of the future is a service provider. It’s essential to optimise your service offerings in the coming years, so your customers will see you as a valuable partner throughout the entire lifecycle of your machines. The new IXON Marketplace offers over 25 apps that can help you to step up your service game.

Responding to market demand for higher load, HepcoMotion is expanding its range of guidance solutions for Beckhoff’s XTS with the new GFX-r – a system providing movement in rectangular paths. Based on the existing GFX design and incorporating the inherent flexibility and precision of GFX/XTS technology, the curved segments have been removed, enabling transportation of payloads up to 40kg.

John Browett, general manager at the CLPA Europe, looks at how CC-Link IE TSN solutions are being implemented to advance manufacturing facilities around the world.

RA Rodriguez will be bringing its range of quality engineering solutions to Southern Manufacturing and Electronics 2024. The three-day event will be taking place from 6-8 February 2024, at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre in Hampshire.

Every server blade containing valuable data needs to be secured into a server rack, and the technology for securely mounting and latching sensitive electronic components into the enclosure is just as critical as mounting components to the mid-plane/back-plane or securing PC board components to a sheet-metal sub-pan, as the experts at Southco explain.

The new DI1600-series of speed monitors from ifm electronic offer a space-saving yet versatile solution for monitoring the speed of rotating shafts in a wide range of applications from conveyor systems to centrifuges.

Emerson has announced its new TopWorx DVR Switchbox, an entry-level addition to the DV Series of valve position indicators. It combines a durable resin enclosure, compact size and a patented cam design that provides water and wastewater systems, food and beverage production lines and industrial utilities a reliable valve position feedback tool.

Phoenix Contact is introducing a trio of industrial media converter families, each engineering to excel in specific environments and challenges. Designed for performance, durability, and flexibility, these devices cater to the range of industrial needs, from cost-effective solutions to wide-temperature and high-EMC environments.

Nabtesco cycloidal gears feature utmost precision, dynamics and dependability, to assure reliable pin-point positioning even in the most demanding applications. Ideal for positioning tasks with high torques and heavy loads.

Today, industrial automation is no longer imaginable without robots. The VISOR Robotic vision sensor from Sensopart acts as the ‘eye’ of the robot and is used worldwide in image-guided robotics applications. The most recent development provides problem-free connection between the vision sensor and a Yaskawa robot.