With IXON, machine builders achieve a distinctive service proposition that really makes them stand out in the competitive market. The combination of Remote Access Cloud, Machine Insights Cloud and a Service Portal Cloud in one modern platform ensures that service is not only smarter and more efficient, but also scalable and future-proof.

New from ifm is the AL5121 IO-Link input/output module, a compact and efficient solution that simplifies the integration of sensors and actuators into control systems. With its space-saving design and advanced capabilities, the AL5121 is a reliable choice for both control cabinet and field applications requiring minimal IP protection.

Modularity, simple installation, and drastically reduced space requirements as well as minimum cabling - these are the key benefits of cabinet-free drive technology. Based on 20 years of development experience in this field, Bosch Rexroth now also offers a cabinet-free solution in protection class IP65 with the ctrlX DRIVE cabinet-free.

Cable technology and harnessing solutions provider, LAPP UK, highlights how its bespoke manufacturing service delivers unique and original designs to customers, leading to technological and competitive advantage.

SensoPart has released a powerful new software update for its proven VISOR sensor series. Available free of charge, the update introduces major functionality upgrades, including automatic geometric shape detection, precise circle measurement, and a new browser-based configuration interface.

Hydrogen is considered the energy carrier of the future. Its potential applications are diverse: it is used in industry when steelmaking, in the chemical or glass industry, for mobility as fuel for fuel cell vehicles or for electricity reconversion. The downside of the energy carrier: the gas is colourless and odourless, while at the same time highly flammable. Appropriate safety measures and safe monitoring systems are therefore required during production and handling, as Armin Glaser, Pilz vice president for strategy and cooperation explains.

In the 1971 film, Willy Wonka, an egg testing machine decides that Veruca Salt is a bad egg and sends her down the waste chute after she sings, I Want it Now. But does the egg tester use machine learning or a neural network to decide? Here, Ivalyo Ivanov, support engineer at PC-based control specialist Beckhoff UK, compares two tools in the AI toolbox.

SensoPart is expanding its family of miniature sensors with the launch of the new FT 25-RLAP time-of-flight sensor, combining precise distance measurement up to 1.5 metres with a compact, space-saving design.

ABB's new LV Titanium Variable Speed Motor platform delivers the benefits of a high-efficiency motor and variable speed drive (VSD) technology in a single, compact, customisable, plug-and-play solution that enables industrial customers to minimise their energy consumption, save money and reduce carbon emissions.

Applied Motion Products (AMP) has expanded its TSM StepSERVO integrated motor line with a brand new, truly miniature, NEMA 8 frame model - the USA based motion control leader's smallest all-in-one closed loop servo motor, drive and controller combination.