A mid-sized German bakery has installed six industrial robots to help it cope with expanding demand and to improve the efficiency of its operations. The family-run Malzers bakery supplies the Ruhr ...

A Finnish company has developed a technology that produces fibres sustainably from natural and waste materials, using much ...

A Swiss engineering specialist has raised $6.7m to accelerate its concept of autonomous factories that integrate various ...

Evolito, a UK developer of axial-flux electric motors, is supplying motors to Flying Whales, a French aerospace start-up, to ...

Despite the weak German economy, the 2024 SPS automation show managed to attract a similar number of visitors and exhibitors to the 2023 event. We look at some of the technologies and products that ...

On its stand at the recent SPS exhibition in Germany, the encoder-maker Heidenhain was demonstrating how secondary encoders ...

The German drives and automation specialist Baumüller has developed a new runtime environment for its control platforms, ...

A new laboratory in London is thought to be the UK’s first cloud-native facility dedicated to the manufacturing sector.

PNO – the Profinet User Organisation – has submitted a design for a Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) plug connector for international standardisation. It describes the development as “an important milestone ...

Beckhoff Automation has announced the availability of real-time control as a virtual PLC, which it says will open up more ...

At the recent SPS exhibition in Germany, SEW-Eurodrive used a software-defined machine model to showcase it vision of the ...

The German machine vision specialist Chromasens has announced an industrial camera that merges linescan imaging technology ...