Winding is a key process in a range of industries from food and beverage, agriculture and electrical engineering to automotive manufacturing, construction and consumer goods. It enables the production of products as diverse as the safety film in your car windscreen and the battery in your mobile phone. The continual development of this mission critical process has been the guiding principle of Japan's FUJI TEKKO since its foundation in 1954, explains John Browett, general manager of the CC-Link Partner Association Europe.

When a leading kitchen manufacturer was struggling with a series of outdated pneumatic backplates which control their production lines of kitchen cupboard assemblies, it turned to Camozzi Automation.

In an APAC first, eleven 3D printed valve trims, complete with ABJ soft seat, engineered by IMI have boosted uptime and efficiency at a Chinese power plant at substantially lower cost than a full valve replacement.

When intruder detection product manufacturer GJD was looking to automate a manual silicone application process, it turned to Intertronics.

In the food, beverage and packaging industries, space for conveyor systems is limited. A Swedish machine manufacturer uses the advantages of drive technology from NORD DRIVESYSTEMS to realise a compact design with reduced drive variants for chain conveyors.

Maximum productivity requires not only precision manufacturing processes, but also smooth disposal of the generated waste materials. This is exactly where the new, fully automated waste disposal solution from KABELSCHLEPP Hunsborn comes in, which has just been successfully commissioned at the factory of agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO Fendt in Asbach-Baumenheim, Germany.

When an automotive Tier 1 producer of metal assemblies needed a reliable and robust machine safety guard to protect operators from possible injury while the degreasing is in progress, it turned to Contrinex.

MiniTec UK is best known for its aluminium profile systems used in everything from desks and assembly benches to conveyor systems. But every so often, a project comes along that lets the company showcase just how versatile its modular system really is - and this golf ball sorting machine was exactly that.

When gas sensor manufacturer DD-Scientific wanted to automate the mixing, metering and dispensing of epoxy within its sensor production process, it turned to Intertronics.

Against the background of advancing digitisation in mechanical engineering, access management is also being put to the test: in close cooperation with the machine tool manufacturer Starrag, Pilz has developed the classic operating mode selection system into a holistic entry and access permission management system for Safety and Security tasks.