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The importance of machinery safety in current times

UK manufacturers are advised to ensure robust safety checks, as well as competency assessments for staff, are carried out, before restarting machinery that has been left idle due to lockdown restrictions or social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic, suggests Euchner, a leading specialist in safety engineering.

28th September 2020

Industrial Technology EXTRA - 28 September

Issue 24 of Industrial Technology EXTRA - our interactive electronic supplement to the printed edition of Industrial Technology - is out today. You can view the PDF here, the flip-page magazine, or download the tablet version on the Industrial Technology app. Contents include:

28th September 2020

$TDK-Lambda announces Â£11.5m investment to redevelop its manufacturing facility in Ilfracombe, UK$

TDK-Lambda announces Â£11.5m investment to redevelop its manufacturing facility in Ilfracombe, UK

TDK Corporation announces an £11.5m investment package to redevelop its TDK-Lambda manufacturing facility in Ilfracombe, UK. The investment, which will be staged over the next three and a half years, will enable the company to increase production capacity by 50%.

25th September 2020

Bonomi UK launches new website and digital catalogue

Bonomi UK has launched a total redesign of its website, also incorporating a digital version of its fully updated product catalogue. The new site separates the company’s vast and rapidly expanding range of products into six categories: Process Valves, Brass Valves and Regulators, Actuators and Actuated Valves, Hydraulic Components, Oil and Gas and an overview of subsidiary company Ultravalve, in order to help visitors quickly navigate to the appropriate section.

25th September 2020

Motion plastics ensure reliable operation for vertical farming

Motion plastics from Igus are playing a major role in the increasingly popular sector of vertical farming. Igus is working closely with global companies specialising in vertical farming - the practice of growing plants indoors in stacked layers - by providing the lubrication-free tribo-polymers needed for this type of food production.

24th September 2020

Short lead times for UK-made NSK NH/NS linear guides

NSK leverages the competencies of its worldwide manufacturing facilities to bring products closer to the company’s local customer base and reduce lead times. A case in point is NH/NS series linear guides, which are produced at NSK’s UK plant in Newark. As well as stocking standard units, the Newark factory has extensive manufacturing capabilities to ensure that requests for specific lengths, coatings, seals and grease – for example – can be fulfilled in short lead times.

24th September 2020

Analog Devices collaborates with Microsoft on 3D imaging products and solutions

Analog Devices has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to leverage Microsoft’s 3D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor technology, allowing customers to easily create high-performance 3D applications that bring higher degrees of depth accuracy and work regardless of the environmental conditions in the scene. ADI’s technical expertise will build upon Microsoft Azure Kinect technology to deliver leading ToF solutions to a much broader audience in areas such as Industry 4.0, automotive, gaming, augmented reality, computational photography and videography.

24th September 2020

G5/5 regulations bring important changes for VSD installations

With the exception of the light bulb, virtually every electronic device will generate harmonics of some description. And when we consider non-linear loads such as variable speed drives, the harmonics they generate can be enough to disrupt the operation of other devices connected to the supply.

23rd September 2020

Herga"s modular footswitch system now has individual 60601-1 medical approval

Herga Technology is proud to announce that its Modular Base System has successfully gained UL- and IEC- 60601-1 medical product approval. In combination with Herga’s best-in-class medically approved electrical and Bluetooth footswitches and puckswitches, this building-block platform now provides a globally unique solution for multipedal medical equipment footswitch selection and purchase. Renamed for medical switching tasks as the Medical Footswitch Design Platform, OEMs can be assured their complete multipedal switching module has medical approval on delivery - saving cost by reducing product design effort, simplifying their medical approval process and speeding time-to-market.

23rd September 2020

At-sea rewind restores performance and reliability for offshore vessel

Pumping crude oil ashore is a round-the-clock business that depends on onboard generators to provide vital electricity supplies. Removing a generator from service is a project that requires significant planning and technical expertise to ensure a cost-effective maintenance. For one oil and gas operator, that meant assigning Sulzer with the task of refurbishing one of its crucial assets.

23rd September 2020