A global ABB survey has revealed a growing trend in US and European businesses towards re-shoring or nearshoring operations to build resilience in the face of global challenges – but at the same time, a significant education gap in the skills necessary for these strategies to succeed.

Flir says that finding the right thermography classes is now easier and more intuitive thanks to a newly launched website for the Infrared Training Center (ITC).

A super-realistic racing simulator has been developed by Greaves 3D Engineering that features 45 Igus bearings, linear rails, drives and e-chains. The University of Northampton is using the simulator for deployment on its esports BSc degree course.

The Lee Company has acquired TTP Ventus from TTP Group. Based near Cambridge, TTP Ventus is an inventor and manufacturer of silent, compact micropumps and pump modules that enable cutting-edge innovation across the medical, life science, environmental and industrial sectors.

An affordable solution was required to unload bulk cargo from a shipping container and so an attachment for a forklift truck was developed by a material handling company. The attachment uses Contrinex’s robust 700 Series inductive sensors to detect the position of the forks.

When the generator at the Dinas power station developed a fault, the project to refurbish the generator was awarded to Sulzer.

Integrating Mitsubishi Electric’s robotic solutions, Horizon Instruments and the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), part of the University of Warwick, have created the first automated solution which combines two key operations in rotor assembly.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of world motor sport and the federation of the world’s leading motoring organisations, has selected Siemens as “Official Sustainability PLM Software Supplier”.

The 31st edition of SPS, the trade fair for smart and digital automation, will take place from 8 to 10 November 2022 in Nuremberg and will showcase the latest products, solutions and pioneering future technologies in the field of industrial automation.

Eaton has attained US and Canadian certification, along with ATEX and IECEx approvals for mounting in a hazardous area, for its MTL SUM5 Smart Universal Marshalling system for process applications.