Industrial Technology

Yuasa get set for take-off with world famous air display team

Yuasa, a brand of global battery manufacturer GS Yuasa, is taking its sponsorship programme to new heights by teaming up with world famous air display team The Blades. The partnership will see Yuasa logos feature prominently on the team’s four aircraft as they perform exhilarating close-formation aerobatic displays to well over four million people at events in 2022.

4th February 2022

Training team at RARUK Automation expanded to meet cobot demand

Central to the promotion of RARUK Automation from gold to platinum status Universal Robots (UR) distributor has been the quality resources it provides its customers. Dedicated UR training is a key element. The company opened the UK’s first UR Authorised Training Centre at its headquarters in Bedfordshire just two years ago and despite Covid-19 disruption, the facility has grown from strength to strength.

4th February 2022

ISO13485 accreditation opens up med-tech market opportunities for RDS

Embedded systems and display solutions provider, Review Display Systems has announced that the business has achieved accreditation to ISO13485:2016 medical device quality management system standard. Accreditation to ISO13485 enables RDS to actively partner with med-tech businesses to provide medical device design, development, and product manufacturing.

4th February 2022

Realising deep space travel with electronic engineering

Space exploration relies on innovations in technology. In fact, space shuttles can have up to 2.5 million moving parts. Mankind yearns to venture further into space, but the biological challenges of long term space travel must be understood and overcome before this is attempted. The BAMMsat project is developing a pioneering system that will enable biological research in space to uncover these mysteries, using motor technology supplied by Faulhaber distributor EMS.

3rd February 2022

Reducing energy usage up to 50% for industrial sectors

To mark the new year, Wanner International has announced that it can reduce the total energy usage by up to a half for some industries that rely heavily on pumps for their processes. The company is focusing on the importance of reducing energy consumption in the wake of COP26, and wants to highlight that it is playing its part in making a more sustainable future a reality.

3rd February 2022

TÜV SÜD launches academy to optimise UK machinery industry compliance

TÜV SÜD has launches an Academy to help the UK’s machinery industry to cost effectively upskill their employees to optimise business performance, improve product compliance efficiency and minimise time to market.

3rd February 2022

Discuss new innovations at Industrial Ethernet Week

Industrial Ethernet is powering transformation, helping to turn the vision of IIoT and seamless sensor-to-cloud communication into reality. To learn more and discover solutions for driving industrial change, join Harting for its Industrial Ethernet Week from the 8-10 February 2022.

2nd February 2022

Seminar addresses practical issues in the use of digital communications

PI Group is hosting a free-to-attend seminar in Inchinnan, Scotland on 24 March which will address the key practical issues arising from the use of digital communications technologies in automated manufacturing and process industry applications. The seminar will pay particular attention to Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

2nd February 2022

Livestock sorting machine relies on stepper drives from Heason Technology

Heason Technology has integrated Novanta IMS integrated stepper drives into a custom designed positioning system for Pharmweigh. The company’s Draft Master automatic livestock drafting machine which includes four MDrive Plus integrated drives programmed and configured with Heason supplied gearboxes to operate belt driven gates during animal weighing and sorting.

1st February 2022

Honeywell and Freyr collaborate to deploy energy storage solutions

Honeywell and Freyr Battery announced they have signed an agreement pursuant to which Freyr will, subject to viability, leverage Honeywell’s technology offerings, including integrated automation, field instrumentation and security integration solutions in their manufacturing process. As part of the collaboration, Honeywell will purchase 19 GWh of battery cells produced by Freyr from 2023 through 2030 for a multitude of energy storage systems applications.

31st January 2022