Producing several million sustainable beverage cans per hour across its European plants, a can manufacturer needed to avoid unplanned machine downtime. Turning to Schaeffler's OPTIME condition monitoring solution has helped to prevent 360 hours of downtime.
28th October 2024
Greaves 3D Engineering builds collapsible simulator with 45 igus components such as maintenance-free drylin linear and drive technology.
28th October 2024
Three large, travelling-column bed mills at the Swansea factory of subcontractor Afon Engineering have been retrofitted with a Heidenhain TNC 320 control and new drives to improve their reliability and performance.
23rd October 2024
In a secondary packaging operation, bags of products like confectionery are often 'shingled', a process of layering them into a cardboard shipping box in alternating overlapped layers. Photoelectric sensors with background-suppression from Contrinex have provided a reliable means of checking the correct quantity of bags in each box.
18th October 2024
Plug Power is transitioning from reactive to proactive service, building its new service structure around its ELX portal, based on IXON. Here it collects crucial operational data which it uses not only to improve response times but also to lay the foundation for future (after-sales) service models such as predictive maintenance.
10th October 2024
One of Europe's largest private pathology providers has dramatically increased blood testing productivity at its Paris laboratory with a bespoke cold storage robotic automation system designed and built in the UK.
1st October 2024
The renowned Belgian brewery Chimay, known for its traditional Trappist beer, relies on maintenance-free spherical bearings from igus in its bottling plant. By replacing rusty, seized ball bearings with lubrication-free igubal H3 bearing inserts, the brewery was able to increase efficiency and reduce maintenance.
30th September 2024
F&S BONDTEC Semiconductor from Braunau, Austria, relies on image processing technology with industrial cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems for the precise determination of wire positions and for quality assurance.
19th September 2024
Contrinex sensors' high performance and reliability are trusted by many manufacturers of high-speed machining centres. One such application is providing reliable and robust sensing of the position of the machine's main spindle to initiate a tool-change sequence.
18th September 2024
Delta's automation solutions have significantly transformed the production capabilities of ATS, a leading system integrator for complete automatic lines. This collaboration, featuring the implementation of SCARA robots and the AX-8 PC-Based Motion Controller, has enhanced ATS' operational efficiency and demonstrated Delta's unique market position.
16th September 2024