CHRIS JOHNSON, managing director of SMB Bearings, explains how industry can use advanced chrome bearings to go green and, at the same time, reduce electricity consumption.
KEEPING STAFF happy, healthy and safe should be a priority for all businesses, but how can it be done so that efficiency and productivity are not compromised? Contrary to popular belief, these aims don’t have to be diametrically opposed. Here’s how, according to Claire Price of QMS International
NEIL BELLINGER, head of EMEA at global automation parts supplier EU Automation, delves into the native cloud and why it is the future of manufacturing.
ABB AND Finnish technology company Coolbrook have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commercialise and accelerate the adoption of Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.
AS PART of their diploma thesis at the HTBLA Saalfelden, David Haidenhofer, Markus Kreutzer and Paul Kreuzer designed a machine to solve a scrambled Rubik’s Cube, in just 385ms.
MACHINE TOOL supplier, Mills CNC, has chosen to use a laser triangulation sensor from Micro-Epsilon in one of its bespoke machine tool automation cells (SYNERGi) with a primary focus on inspecting large, hot rolled steel railway fishplates.
DEVELOPED BY Fuzzy Logic and Visionic for Framatome Intercontrôle, PRIMUS (Platform for Robotic Inspection and Maintenance for Unstructured Settings) is a robotic NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) system for nuclear infrastructures. Unlike existing solutions on the robotics and NDT markett, this software and hardware package is designed to be used by non-roboticist NDT operators.
FLOATING OFFSHORE wind projects will receive more than £60m in public and private investment to develop new technologies to enable turbines to be located in the windiest parts around the UK’s coastline.
BEVEL GEARS from igus made of high-performance plastics iguform S270 and igutek P360 are a cost-effective and maintenance-free alternative to metallic gears.
IN SITUATIONS where COVID-19 patients need to be being transferred between different intensive care units, the flow sensor from Sensirion is playing an important role.
