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Omron highlights mobile robots at Advanced Engineering

Omron highlights mobile robots at Advanced Engineering

Omron will be featuring its mobile robots – fully autonomous intelligent vehicles that increase throughput, reduce machine dwell time, eliminate errors, improve material traceability, and allow employees to focus on tasks that require complex human skills.. What’s more, unlike traditional AGVs, Omron’s mobile robots navigate by the natural features of the facility and require no expensive facility modification.

18th October 2017
Drag chains feature innovative divider system

Drag chains feature innovative divider system

To meet the heterogeneous demands of applications in the field of Industry 4.0, Kabelschlepp Metool has developed the new Master drag chains LE60/LE80 with the innovative divider system TS3. The reduced wall thickness of the divider system lets customers benefit from more space in the interior: compared to the previous cable carrier, this achieves a space saving of 50% in the vertical and 37.5% in the horizontal. At the same time, the new Master drag chains are easy to open and fill, for time-saving harnessing from all sides.

18th October 2017
HepcoMotion GV3 V-guide linear system on show at Advanced Engineering

HepcoMotion GV3 V-guide linear system on show at Advanced Engineering

Linear motion expert HepcoMotion will be making its debut appearance at the Advanced Engineering Show. With over 42 major product lines with thousands of individual components in various sizes, Hepco has a wide range of products to meet practically any requirement. Key products on the stand include Hepco’s core V guide linear system, GV3. This is designed to serve a diverse range of automation and linear applications and is widely used in the packing industry for applications such as a telescopic pick and place gantry, transport system or multi-lane row divider to name but a few. Highly accurate, GV3 is particularly suitable for high precision applications, or any application where accuracy is paramount. Said to be one of the quietest linear systems on the market, GV3 offers high speeds of up to eight meters per second.

18th October 2017
RARUK Automation highlights robots at Advanced Engineering

RARUK Automation highlights robots at Advanced Engineering

As a Universal Robot Preferred Distributor, RARUK Automation provides customers with not only a higher level of technical support but also priority access to Universal Robot resources such as applications expertise. At Advanced Engineering 2017, visitors will be able to take advantage of this know-how and learn how Universal Robots are the ideal basis for cost-effective production solutions that enable humans and robots to work collaboratively.

18th October 2017
Automata slashes the cost of robotics

Automata slashes the cost of robotics

Automata is launching Eva, an elegant, simple, affordable robot arm built for professionals. Eva costs just £4,990 while robotic arms of similar size cost over £20,000. Automata is now taking reservations for Eva on its website.

18th October 2017
CLPA passes significant milestone as membership passes 3,000

CLPA passes significant milestone as membership passes 3,000

Spring 2017 has seen the global footprint of CC-Link IE and CC-Link reach a new high, with the number of CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) member companies passing 3,000. With this surge in members, of whom more than 300 are offering some 1,700 products available for the technologies, CLPA is helping to drive the digitalisation of manufacturing which is central to the goals of Industry 4.0.

18th October 2017
Seminar provides step-by-step guide to improving your productivity with robots

Seminar provides step-by-step guide to improving your productivity with robots

ABB’s forthcoming Switch to Robots seminar will explain how ongoing reductions in the cost and complexity of robotic automation are opening up new opportunities for UK SME manufacturing companies. Taking place at ABB’s Milton Keynes site on Tuesday 28th November 2017, the event will provide a simple step-by-step guide to introducing robot automation to the factory floor.

12th October 2017
Invertek Drives starts work on new 5,500m2 factory

Invertek Drives starts work on new 5,500m2 factory

Invertek Drives is delighted to announce work has now started on a new 5,500m2 factory at its Welshpool headquarters which will enable the company to increase production capacity to more than 400,000 drives per year as well as create new jobs.

29th September 2017
SKF launches software centre for condition monitoring in Sweden

SKF launches software centre for condition monitoring in Sweden

The market for products and services related to monitoring the condition of machinery within the industry is growing. SKF is making a major investment by opening a software centre in Sweden in order to develop next generation technology for condition monitoring.

29th September 2017
Safe switching for surgical equipment

Safe switching for surgical equipment

Herga Technology is supplying 6448 bellows footswitch and 6763 airswitches to Cipher Surgical Ltd for its OpClear laparoscope lens cleaning system. The innovative medical device delivers saline and CO2 via a disposable sheath procedure kit to maintain continuous and intraoperative clear vision for keyhole surgery.

29th September 2017
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