The inaugural MachineBuilding.Live exhibition, held at the National Motorcycle Museum on 4 October, has been hailed as an outstanding success by exhibitors and visitors alike.

A businesses transition from micron-level positioning to nanoscale manipulation, this adds more pressure on machine builders to deliver precise, next generation solutions. This is true in a range of applications – from laser processing and semiconductor fabrication to component assembly and metrology – where nanometres can often be the difference between success and failure, as the experts at Physik Instrumente (PI) explain.

Jeremy Whittingham, industry consultant and member of the Advanced Engineering team highlights the cybersecurity vulnerabilities associated with outdated technology and provides manufacturers with insights on mitigating risks.

When a major snack food producer began experiencing repeat failures of the bearings on its cutter lines, a switch to NSK Life-Lube housed bearing units delivered savings in excess of €130,000, primarily thanks to the elimination of lost production.

Schneider Electric is set to expand operations at its site in Leeds. It will invest £7.2 million in a facility upgrade, as well as creating 110 new jobs over the next five years.

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Westermo Network Technologies and Eviden, a leading European provider of managed security services (MSS), have announced their partnership to develop high-level security solutions using crypto-agile operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices for securing critical data communication in railway systems.

Brückner Maschinenbau is using specially adapted optoNCDT ILR2250-100 laser distance sensors from Micro-Epsilon to measure the fill levels of bulk goods in dusty storage silos.

When True Position Robotics (TPR) set out to apply its disruptive digital robotic technology to an innovative robotic drilling project, it turned to Stäubli for the robot tool changing systems required to complete the various operations.

When a critical hydropower turbine failed at a hydropower plant in West Java, Sulzer Indonesia was able to get the 5 MW unit back online in less than half the time needed for a new turbine to be manufactured and installed.