Food Manufacturing

Reliance appoint Life Sciences Business Development Executive

Reliance is appointing Dr Ruth Brown as Business Development Executive within their Life Sciences business. Ruth will be responsible for introducing Reliance's products to the Life Sciences industry.

9th August 2017

Optimising machine automation in food and beverage manufacturing

Lenze has published a new technical article explaining how to optimise automation in machinery for food and beverage manufacturing. The technical article is available as a free PDF download from the Lenze website.

9th August 2017

RS teams up with Crowdcube to help bring DesignSpark ideas to fruition

RS Components has announced that it is collaborating with Crowdcube, the leading UK-based online equity crowdfunding platform, to help members of its DesignSpark engineering community realise their product and business ideas.

3rd August 2017

Meteor: UK premiere of 4-arm Delta punnet loading line at PPMA

Brillopak (stand C24) has chosen PPMA 2017 as the setting for the UK premiere of its new fresh produce punnet loading line, Meteor. It is the first food packing end-of-line system in the UK to integrate Omron's new four-arm Delta robot, Quattro - described as the fastest and most dexterous robot in the world.

2nd August 2017

Nexperia sponsors University Robotics & AI team

Nexperia is announcing it is to be the main industry sponsor for the University of Twente's RoboTeam, a multidisciplinary student group that aspires to innovate in both robotics and artificial intelligence. One channel that the team is using to achieve this ambition is by competing in RoboCup 2017, the world championship of robot soccer in Japan (July 25-31). www.robocup.org. RoboTeam Twente will participate in the Small Size League, which focuses mainly on artificial intelligence.

27th July 2017

Lenze presents recipes for the processing and packaging industry

Lenze is serving up innovative drive and automation concepts for a virtual world on Stand J56 at PPMA Show in September. Demonstrations show how Virtual Reality can give engineers an insight to the operation of complex mechanics and software, leading to faster machine development. Visitors who participate in a demonstration can take away their personal VR viewer. Lenze engineers will also explain new options for data acquisition, analysis and storage of a machine's operating data in the Cloud along with remote support communication technologies for predictive maintenance.

25th July 2017

Innovation Day B&R UK & Ireland

As the world becomes more and more connected, machine and factory automation solutions from B&R are empowering manufacturers to new levels of productivity. Join B&R for a day to experience these solutions and technologies first hand and discover how you can apply them to your machine or factory as we journey through the fourth Industrial Revolution.

24th July 2017

Northern Manufacturing & Electronics, EventCity, Manchester

the North's industrial technology and electronics show, Northern Manufacturing & Electronics, returns to EventCity, Manchester on 27/28 September 2017 for the fifth consecutive year. Once again, the show will provide an excellent opportunity for machine builders and procurement professionals to see the latest production technology in action and meet some of the UK's top component vendors and service providers.

20th July 2017

SICK - driving industry forward at PPMA

Discovering how smart sensor technologies help to deliver manufacturing flexibility and predictive maintenance in Industry 4.0-enabled manufacturing and logistics environments will be the focus for SICK UK's stand at the PPMA Show.

19th July 2017

The UK's first EPLAN Certified Engineer

Efficient engineering is not only a question of computer-aided engineering software systems - it's also about the user. EPLAN believe that efficiency is largely determined by knowledge, practice and experience, and as a result offer an extensive range of training courses to complement its versatile range of software packages.

7th July 2017

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