Installing a robotic pick-and-place and integrated conveyor solution has increased productivity for a pharmaceutical manufacturer while maintaining regulatory compliance. Combining a vision system optimised for accuracy that assures end-to-end traceability, a single controller from Trio manages both the robot and conveyor axes, increasing reliability for the end user.

See Omron at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 44

Expert Technologies Group’s customers get remote access for free during the project delivery phase thanks to Ixon Cloud. And after project delivery they are selling remote access as a service.

A high speed automatic code reader from Identify Direct in use on 26 food production lines in the UK is saving the food manufacturer over £2,000,000 per year.

When a large retailer needed help to rectify a bonding failure on the component it was importing from China, it turned to Advanced Adhesives for a solution.

See HMS Networks at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 96

When designing an automated handling system for picking and placing test-tubes of blood, a manufacturer of automated laboratory equipment turned to Contrinex for a system to ensure the vials were orientated the correct way around.

NSK’s assistance proved vital to a company experiencing repeat failures of bearings fitted to the roller assemblies of its steel wire drawing machinery. Thanks to the intervention of NSK, the customer is witnessing costs savings in excess of €1.2 million a year.

Matara UK, specialist in automation, pneumatics and linear motion products, has designed and built an XY linear system for Layton Technologies capable of providing speed and precision accuracy for a PCB coating machine, that is also able to endure corrosive atmospheres.

When Electron Engineering Services was retrofitting a grinding machine to turn it into an accurate grinder by installing servo systems instead of hydraulics, it turned to Apex Dynamics and its range of precision planetary gearboxes for high precision and high torque.