Stephen Hayes, managing director of automation and control technology specialist, Beckhoff UK, explains how control technology can play a key role in solving the UK’s productivity puzzle.

Kistler presents its new 5811A handheld family of easy-to-handle, in-field measurement devices with integrated charge amplifiers. They enable users of piezoelectric sensors to carry out process parameter verification and quality control processes anywhere.

As an integration partner, Aerotech supports its customers from an initial idea to turnkey automation systems.

WEG is launching its W23 Sync+ motor line at the SPS. The W23 Sync+, a hybrid innovation that combines permanent magnet (PM), ferrite or neodymium magnets and synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motor technologies, provides higher efficiency across all speeds when compared with conventional induction motors.

As the latest generation of surgical power tools enable even greater capabilities to improve patient outcomes, there’s an increased need for their designers to consider the motion system that drives them, as the experts at Portescap explain.

Henkel Adhesive Technologies has developed a new sealant for cans used in the food industry. DAREX WBC 711 was designed specifically for irregular ends of tinplate or aluminium cans lined by shower head or die lining application.

STOBER now offers its CiA 402 application with all operating modes defined in the standardised CiA 402 device profile. Velocity mode is now integrated, bringing back an older operating mode. This provides the user with an all-in-one solution for both controller-based and classic drive-based applications. This complete solution is especially helpful for modernising existing machines.

Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon has further expanded its capaNCDT 62xx range of multi-channel capacitive controllers with the addition of the DT6240 controller with integrated Profinet interface.

Those considering the purchase of a robot system now have to decide whether the best and most appropriate choice will be a cobot, or whether a traditional industrial robot will offer the optimum solution, as the experts at Stäubli explain.

Emerson has launched the DeltaV Edge Environment, an integrated software solution that expands the capabilities of the evolving DeltaV automation platform to provide an operational technology (OT) sandbox for data manipulation, analysis, organisation and more.