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Issue No: 215
14th September 2023
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UK overtakes France and is hot on the heels of Italy
Two interesting pieces of data in the last few days contrast the UK’s GDP with its manufacturing base. While we have slipped a position to sixth in the global league table of GDPs, being overtaken by India, the UK’s manufacturing sector has climbed one place to eighth in the world rankings, overtaking France. This surely highlights the importance of our sector, and Make UK asserts that if the Government commits to its call for a manufacturing target of 15% of GDP, then the sector could aim to match seventh ranked Italy. But yet again it's all going to come down how much the Government really values our sector, because it’s going to need more than just lip service.
With best regards
Mark Simms, Editor
editor@machinebuilding.net
EDITORS CHOICE
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With their recycling platforms, igus and cirplus want to jointly promote the regenerative plastics industry in the future. At the same time, Cirplus is launching the first global standard for high-quality plastics recycling.
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When a meat processing plant operator needed a solution to check that transportation bins had been emptied prior to being sent to an automated wash station, it turned to Contrinex. An ultrasonic sensor mounted above a conveyor looks down into the bins and diverts contaminated bins from proceeding to the wash station.
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Sewtec Automation, a market leader in bespoke automation for a wide range of industries, has developed an advanced inspection machine for PET bottles that relies on the high performance of Keyence camera sensors to deliver accurate and repeatable results in short cycle times.
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Rockwell Automation has announced plans to collaborate with Fork Farms, a Green Bay-based agriculture technology startup company, to build a highly automated, indoor 7,300-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm within Rockwell’s Milwaukee headquarters by summer of 2024.
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CASE STUDIES, NEW PRODUCTS & NEWS
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Rokholt specialises in obsolete and current line automation spares including HMIs, servo drives, PLC systems, inverter drives and many more. The company understands that unplanned downtime can have a detrimental effect on both revenue and the fast pace of industry.
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As electric vehicles (EVs) continue to gain in popularity, the demand for efficient and reliable electric motors continues to increase. Electric motor design plays a crucial role in determining the overall performance and efficiency of the vehicle. An often-overlooked component with a significant impact on performance is the retaining ring, as the experts at Rotor Clip explain.
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Mclennan has added the new cynapse smart gearbox line from Wittenstein to its wide range of technologies. With its ability to collect, analyse and visualise built-in gearbox information and sensor data, cynapse adds a layer of predictive maintenance that is stored locally in the gearbox, or communicated via IO-Link to PLCs as well as higher level IPCs/Gateways and Cloud systems – enabling comprehensive IIoT integration.
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Darren Rea, sales executive of adhesives supplier Intertronics, discusses three recent potting examples, sharing details on the different properties of available materials.
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When it comes to absorbing short peak currents, braking resistors already mounted on the inverter are a good choice. However, when operating inverters, braking resistors can also become thermally overloaded – with costly consequences. A special feature in the COMBIVERT F6 drive controllers from KEB Automation solves this problem.
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Torus Modular Frameworks offers a range of flexible, high quality, robust aluminium profile solutions for commercial and industrial environments including office, production, manufacturing, and factory facilities.
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Are you facing challenges in sourcing the right products due to supply chain issues? Don't worry there’s good news. Phoenix Contact has been working intensively on the availability of its products, and its unmanaged switches 1000 and 1100 for automation applications are back in stock.
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SEW-Eurodrive has established efficient and flexible processes to achieve its vision for Industry 4.0. SEW’s new design for automated guided vehicles at its main US location includes integrated timing belt conveyors from mk. These vehicles serve as mobile workbenches for mounting individual gearboxes.
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Robots have become an indispensable part of everyday life. HEIDENHAIN, AMO, NUMERIK JENA, RENCO, and RSF offer optimal encoders for all robotics applications.
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Getting the most out of your machinery often depends on close integration between all components, with the correct specification of couplings between them to ensure proper shaft alignment, optimise performance and minimise wear. The experts at jbj Techniques guide us through the design considerations for hydraulic adapters to couple hydraulic pumps to prime movers.
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Staytite is excited to participate in the highly anticipated MachineBuilding.Live exhibition. Visitors to the company’s stand will be able to experience live demonstrations of the Hardlock Nut, the world-renowned fastener engineered to prevent loosening.
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Bytronic is adept at sorting out your productivity issues. Offering advanced vision technology and integrator expertise, the company unleashes the power of AI for global manufacturing and logistics.
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The Rubix Motion, Control and Automation (MCA) division will be coming together for the first time to exhibit at MachineBuilding.Live on 4 October 2023 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.
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More and more camping enthusiasts are using MiniTec’s aluminium profile construction kit to customise their vehicles. In addition to completely independent designs, there is also a desire for ready-made components. This was taken into account, and at a recent trade fair various assembly kits for self-assembly or ready-assembled where products were launched.
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Why not invest in your workforce by having your employees trained to an industry standard in either pneumatics, hydraulics and electronics? The BFPA offers a number of new Foundation courses in fluid power.
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Zebra Technologies is joining forces with specialist partner Clearview Imaging at MachineBuilding.Live to showcase the latest and greatest solutions from its growing Machine Vision portfolio.
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At MachineryBuilding.Live, Stuart Coulton, UK and Ireland marketing manager for OMRON, will discuss different approaches to minimising downtime when he leads a workshop titled: “Increasing productivity by minimising changeover times”.
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Discover the innovation of CamdenBoss at MachineBuilding.Live, Stand 18. With 50+ years of experience, CamdenBoss is a trusted UK-based manufacturer with a global reach through its extensive distributor network.
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SICK will be showing the latest in energy and condition monitoring sensors and associated digital platforms, non-contact speed monitoring sensors, sensor and safety solutions for OEMS and machine builders at MachineBuilding.Live.
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At MachineBuilding.Live, production environment products manufacturer FATH will make the UK debut of its new adapter pallets for the industrial dollies found on shop floors across all sectors of larger scale manufacturing.
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EVENTS AND COURSES
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The UK’s only event staged exclusively for machine builders, systems integrators and OEMs keen to automate is now open for visitor registration.
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