Hassle-free food modernisation
Revenues in the food and beverage industry are growing, but profit margins are shrinking. Market forces, combined with the battle to meet ever-changing consumer demands without compromising quality and food safety, means that many manufacturers and retailers have pushed price margins to the limit. Here, Sean Robinson, service leader at industrial automation specialist Novotek UK & Ireland, explains how to modernise without the hassle.
If you can't stand the heat…
At the start of 2018, the BBC reported that the UK's manufacturing output was at its highest rate for ten years. This increase can largely be attributed to the UK's recovery from the global economic crisis and its uptake of automation technology. However, while the food and beverage industry has been slower than other sectors to embrace automation technology, this doesn't have to be the case. Here, Stephen Hayes, managing director of industrial PC provider Beckhoff Automation UK, explains how automation tools like PC-based control systems will help food manufacturers keep up with their competition.
Celera Motion Broadens Precision Motion Capabilities
Adds Servo Drives to Complement Its Encoders, Motors and Mechatronics
What Do Robotics Mean for the Cutting Tools Industry
Friend or foe? Helper or fiend? Here's what robotics really mean for the cutting tools industry and what are the pitfalls to watch out for.
American Manufacturing Is Set to Explode - but Small to Medium Sized Manufacturers Aren't Prepared
Headlines suggest that manufacturing is coming home. However, a renaissance of America's industry was never going to be that simple, particularly for small and medium sized manufacturers.
DQE Communications: Why Today's Manufacturers Need High Speed, Fiber Optic Networks
With the rise of digitally-enabled advances such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Industrial IoT (IIoT), the network solutions provider is on a mission to ensure that modern enterprises, including manufacturers, have the high-speed, high capacity networks they need to power production.
Webinar Showcases How Modern ERP Software Can Attract the Next Generation Workforce
Ultra Consultants and SYSPRO USA Present Informative Webinar Session Geared to Manufacturing, Distribution Project Teams
XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis to Keynote LiveWorx, the Definitive Conference for Digital Transformation
Leaders at the Forefront of Technology to Explore the Human Potential in the Augmented Workforce
Hermle to Showcase "Milling at its Best" at 2019 Global Open House
Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with more than twenty machine models in various configurations and with complementary equipment from high-tech industries to demonstrate the vast range of capabilities provided by Hermle products.
Joint euspen/ASPE Event Covers Advanced Precision in Additive Manufacturing
AM/3D Printing is today making concerted strides as a manufacturing technology, but as it makes the transition to a factory floor technology, a focus on precision and verifiable repeatability is fundamental.
Phase 1 Technology Now Representing Newsight Imaging High Performance CMOS Sensors
Leading machine vision and automated vision camera and component distributor Phase 1 Technology has been selected to represent high performance CMOS sensors from Newsight Imaging.
ProMach Strengthens Robotics Integration Capabilities with Acquisition of Quest Industrial
Deal expands ProMach's growing robotics and integrated solutions portfolio and enhances robotic service capabilities across multiple markets
MT360 CONFERENCE TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITIES
Event provides practical guidance on implementing advanced yet available technologies,
exposes high tech firms to market opportunities available in manufacturing.
Celera Motion Case Study - Precision Rotary Axis Control
The customer required precision rotary axis control in the lowest profile form factor for multiple sequential robot arm joints. Key additional requirements included minimal movement at start-up to report absolute position...
FlexCNC Introduces new Beam Line
The FlexBEAM has a monoblock welded steel frame with high rigidity and a t-slot machine bed. It features 3 axis interpolation, scribing, automatic hydraulic workholding and automatic tool touch-off.
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Automation & Networking - Featured Product
New M12 A-Coded Connectors from binder are now Ecolab and FDA certified
binder USA, LP, has expanded the M12 product family with the addition of the M12 A-Coded Connector, which is now certified for both Ecolab and FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 standards.
The M12 A-Coded connectors are extraordinarily durable and IP69K-rated, ideal for harsh-duty and washdown applications in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Available in 3, 4, 5, 8, and 12 contacts, the high quality stainless steel locking rings (V4A) and gold contact plating can also withstand UV exposure and shock and vibration.
