When customers tap a screen to choose their favourite chocolates, Roose Automation's 'ChocoMatic' robot arm travels along a linear track, selects each chocolate, and delivers them without human intervention. Behind this playful, hygienic automation lies a clever piece of engineering: the 7th axis from igus.

Turck Banner managing director Tony Coglan discusses the company's ability to provide machine builders with turnkey solutions for automation, focusing on the company's range of fieldbus, networking and safety products, including its safety I/O module range.

Total Pressure Solutions UK sales manager, Leon Anthony, discusses the company's range of pressure, level, temperature and flow instrumentation for a huge range of applications.

SIGMATEK Automation business development manager, Ross Fenion, discusses the company's standard automation range, motion controllers, HMIs and I/O slices, as well as the company's capability to custom design bespoke systems to meet individual requirements.

Tom Parker sales manager, Seb Cole, highlights the key brands from around the world for which the company is a UK distributor. The company represents over 70 leading brands, including Aignep, Camozzi, CDC Pneumatics, CEJN, Colder Products Company, E.MC Pneumatics, FasTest, Festo, Master Pneumatic, Oetiker and Sicomat.

Renishaw sales manager Dan Scully talks about the company's ranges of open and closed encoders, incremental and absolute, rotary and linear. In particular, he highlights FORTiS enclosed encoders that have been designed to meet the needs of position monitoring in the harsh environmental conditions of machine tools.

OMRON market development manager David Breckell discusses the company's new range of motor condition monitoring products. These can check vibration, temperature, that the load is in balance, insulation resistance and monitor the condition of the motor bearings.

Motion29 founder Steve Fisher discusses the company's industrial connectivity range, as well as LED lighting (including ATEX products) for machines to indicate status and enhance safety. Typical applications for the company's components include industrial automation, food manufacturing and automotive manufacture.

B&R Industrial Automation managing director, Andy Norcliffe, discusses the company's ACOPOS 6D transport system which uses magnetically levitating shuttles to carry products and materials to processing stations, eliminating mechanical wear, and speeding up transit times.

Binder UK sales director, Graham Ellis, discusses the company's M12 and M16 connectors which are used in variety of automation applications, including for sensors and actuators, data transmission, voltage and power supply, and solenoid valves.