Industrial Technology

Machine Building

To guide and protect

To guide and protect

Choosing the right hose or cable carrier for your equipment can help prevent kinks, tangles, and other damage as machine parts extend and retract. This prevents downtime and repair costs. Justin Leonard of Igus looks into how such solutions perform under the harshest of conditions.

24th October 2016
Flexible design combined with high throughput

Flexible design combined with high throughput

Increasing quality requirements and the desire for resource efficiency necessitate autonomous fault detection through comprehensive product and production data. In the area of quality control, goods in the production process and value chain must be reliably and uniquely identified so that they can support efficient automated control. An increasing number of these digital automation solutions are finding their way into the fashion and clothing industries, with the work of fashion leader Gerry Weber Group being a good example. 

24th October 2016
Handing data in the new industrial revolution

Handing data in the new industrial revolution

The fast pace at which the Internet of Things is moving is opening up a huge necessity for organisations to seriously consider how they handle Big Data, which is key for improved manufacturing. Ivor Hunt of Weidmuller UK explores how to manage volume data being generated from field devices and how this creates challenges for the networking infrastructure.

24th October 2016
An integrated approach to machinery safety

An integrated approach to machinery safety

Richard Wilkins of Omron examines how safety can be an enabler for increased productivity and reduced total cost of ownership.

24th October 2016
Circuit protection is a vital consideration

Circuit protection is a vital consideration

Dr Peter Terhoeven of Eaton details how circuit protection ensures operator safety, machine uptime and manufacturing OEM profitability.

24th October 2016
Machine design trends to ensure food safety

Machine design trends to ensure food safety

Andrew MacPherson of Festo reviews the various food zones and highlights strategies for optimising hygiene in food and drink manufacture.

24th October 2016
Servo tuning tools: time versus frequency domain

Servo tuning tools: time versus frequency domain

Motion controllers are abundant on the market, many claim to offer tools that ‘magically’ setup, tune and produce optimum performance for a servo system. What tools are available for the machine builder or system integrator that will allow closed loop servo systems to achieve obtain setup and a high performance and stable system?

24th October 2016
Hands up if you know one robot arm from another

Hands up if you know one robot arm from another

What determines the choice of palletising robot to handle product X at point Y on the line? Andrew Armstrong of FANUC UK picks out some of the criteria that users should consider in order to specify the best robot for the job.

24th October 2016
Robot vision aids food product inspection

Robot vision aids food product inspection

Collaborative robots are aiding productivity as food and drink manufacturers safe guard their quality, as Earl Yardley of Industrial Vision Systems explains.

24th October 2016
Harder, better, faster

Harder, better, faster

Adoption of robotics holds the promise of significantly improved productivity, but does the technology always live up to that promise? The anwer quite often is that robot productivity could often be improved. Users will detail their experiences of unplanned downtime due to out of sync communication between robots or PLCs; they will talk about the significant amount of time needed to reset after a stop in production; they will tell you about maintenance intervals driven by time rather than true condition-based monitoring. They may also talk about the large footprint robotic cells require due to fencing requirements. They may even tell you about material jams and need for human interaction requiring power off on the cell. 

24th October 2016
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