According to a 2023 House of Commons Committee Report, the UK faces a "gigafactory gap," and will need 100GWh of capacity by 2030 and 200GWh by 2040. While the focus of debate around gigafactories is often on high-level policy decisions, international investment and government funding, automation technologies are the unsung heroes of the gigafactory, argues Stephen Hayes, manager director at automation specialist Beckhoff UK.

Mitsubishi Electric has unveiled an enhanced suite of life cycle management solutions to help production plants achieve high quality and sustainable performance by maintaining key production assets, managing automation obsolescence, minimising downtime and developing people.

Renishaw set out to design a linear encoder that addresses three common challenges: installation, leakage and vulnerability to vibration. Corrie Fearon, Product Manager at Renishaw introduces the FORTiS enclosed optical encoder.

Troy Stehr, Industry Account Manager - Lab and Medtech for Burkert, looks at how manufacturers of dialysis equipment can deliver equipment optimised for patients' comfort and safety.

If you are a machine builder or system integrator, you need to be aware of the new EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 that entered into force on 17 August 2023 and has been applied since 18 February 2024. The experts at Hold Tech Files look at the implications.

Providing safe material flow in the field, the new DMM4 muting module from SICK Sensor Intelligence provides safe human-material differentiation to improve protection and productivity in industrial settings.

igus is proud to showcase PTFE-free materials and a complete energy chain series made of recycled material.

Rhopoint Components can help designers and buyers’ source obsolete and hard-to-find components with confidence through its network of carefully selected global suppliers that can support legacy products and reverse engineering projects.

Just in time for the start of LogiMAT, Interroll is heralding a paradigm shift in automated conveyor systems. With MCP PLAY, conveyor systems can be implemented more easily and quickly, operated more cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, and achieve up to 100% higher throughput.

Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies, has announced the availability of radiometric models of its high-performance Boson+ thermal and Hadron 640R+ dual thermal-visible camera modules.