Belgian machinery manufacturer Texprofin developed a range of automated towel-folding machines using products from industrial automation specialist Inovance.

Rockwell Automation reports that Italian and Swiss household brand Orphea has deployed a new, custom-made end-of-line packaging system, designed by Rockwell Automation and automation specialist Vimco, that will accelerate production, reduce error rates and enable Orphea to expand and scale.

In hot-dip coating plants, steel strips are coated with molten zinc, zinc alloys and aluminium alloys in a continuous process. Inductive eddy current sensors are used in electromagnetic systems for strip stabilisation. Due to the high speed of the belts, vibrations occur. To minimise this, electromagnetic stabilisation systems from market leader EMG are used, in which 10 to 16 EU40 inductive sensors from Micro-Epsilon are installed.

Due to strict compliance regulations, packaging for medical products must be correctly labeled before it is delivered to customers. Chinese company Shenzhen Jiangrun Xuneng Technology has developed a machine vision solution that automatically reads character codes using OCR. The heart of the application is the standard machine vision software MVTec HALCON.

With the support of Mitsubishi Electric and the engineering firm ATINA, German machine manufacturer BHB Waschanlagen Vertriebs has built a new tram washing system, designed to help save resources for Zurich's public transport operator, Zurcher Verkehrsverbund.

Automation specialist Hambi Maschinenbau, part of Terhoeven, has developed a world-first system that automates the cutting, handling, and stacking of heavy reinforcing steel mesh - a task that previously required up to six human operators. By integrating Mitsubishi Electric's drive and control technologies connected via CC-Link IE TSN, Hambi has achieved millimetre-level precision and seamless synchronisation across motion, safety, and vision systems in a single, unified network.

Kistler Group and ATS Life Sciences Systems (LSS) have joined forces for a state-of-the-art medical device assembly line. Combining advanced sensor technology from Kistler with a patented digital motion system from ATS LSS, Symphoni platform delivers real-time in-line quality assurance for medical devices, up to 320 parts per minute with 90 percent less tooling and full traceability.

Schwabische Werkzeugmaschinen relies on drive technology from STOBER for its BA space3 machining centre.

Picanol, a global leader in high-tech weaving machines, is using Siemens Xcelerator to streamline development cycles and accelerate innovation in the design and production of its next generation weaving machine platforms, such as the OmniPlus-i Connect.

Zebra Technologies reports that Sentinel's automotive customers are leveraging the Poka Yoke (Japanese for mistake proofing/error prevention) inspection solution which is delivering a 10-15% defect rate reduction and helping simplify production lines and reduce maintenance costs and system complexity.