Industrial Technology

WeidmÃ¼ller offers CC-Link IE connectivity

The drive to Industry 4.0 brings challenges in communications and connectivity, and industrial connectivity specialist Weidmüller is helping customers to address these. The company’s growing range of products supports all of the key industrial network protocols, including CC-Link IE, the gigabit industrial Ethernet version of the CC-Link fieldbus.

20th February 2017

New springs from Lee Spring at Southern Manufacturing

With over 1,800 new standard parts anticipated for the Lee Spring catalogue in 2017, we are looking forward to a taster of new ranges at the Southern Manufacturing Exhibition. These will include a new DIN-Plus series which match up in size with standard DIN2098 Part 2 and Part 1 series springs, but with added corrosion resistance (passivation for stainless EN 10270-3-1.4310-NS range and plating for spring steel EN 10270-1-SH range).

17th February 2017

Autodesk highlights 2017 FeatureCAM and PowerMill CAM at Southern Manufacturing

Autodesk is showing its new 2017 CAM products for a multitude of advanced manufacturing applications ranging from CNC mill and lathe programming to complex mould and die manufacturing. These new products combine the heritage of industry leadership in CAM software from Delcam with Autodesk’s 3D design and manufacturing prowess, presenting Autodesk CAM customers with a powerful and unique user experience.

17th February 2017

TML and TFC form new partnership for 2017

TFC Europe and Springco NI – part of The TML Group – are pleased to announce a new alliance that will provide customers with an enhanced level of representation and service from their Portadown location from 30th January 2017.

24th January 2017

Henkel shows products to benefit the entire value chain at Southern Manufacturing

Henkel will demonstrate how its latest generation Loctite, Bonderite Technomelt and Teroson products can benefit the entire value chain. Whether the task is in system building, assembly or repair, these engineering adhesives, sealants and functional coatings improve performance and cut costs.

19th January 2017

Magnets from Elesa â€“ temporary fixings for instruments to signage

Elesa permanent magnets offer a simple way of providing temporary fixing for workpieces, instruments, gauges, covers, doors, signs or drawers. They offer a range of closure from low to extremely high adhesive force in a very small footprint – giving easy manual placement or concealed closure if required. Temporary fixing with high power magnets can provide permanent solutions, quickly adjusted or removed completely.

25th November 2016

Wave spring substitution, compression and performance

The experts at TFC guide us through some of the commonly asked questions about wave springs and their performance.

23rd November 2016

Extended spring ranges make it easier to optimise designs

Standard catalogue company Lee Spring have recently announced three new variants of its torsion spring range with new free angle leg end options of 120°, 210° and 300°. This will enable users to specify even more closely and to optimise their device design whether for electronic devices, chair controls, clipboards, swing-down tailgates or other applications.

23rd November 2016

William Hughes buys new welding cells

William Hughes has announced that it has invested over £1/4 million in a high technology twin robot welding cell. The new welding cell was supplied by Bauromat with Fanuc robots, all installed at William Hughes new UK headquarters in Stalbridge, Dorset. The unit features advanced weld monitoring and recording ensuring that the highest standards of quality and consistency are maintained for customers.

24th October 2016

Fastening solutions for offshore wind turbines

When Siemens began to investigate composite materials for nacelles used on its new 6MW offshore wind turbines, one of the key things it looked at was a composite maintenance hatch designed to replace a steel panel, and the traditional bolt fixings were used to lock and unlock it. This required two persons to perform the operation – one inside and one outside the nacelle. Clearly ease of access and its related safely were problems to be solved, in addition to reducing maintenance costs.

16th September 2016