Food Manufacturing

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

Global motion control market is returning for solid growth

Following a significant market decline in 2015, the global motion control market regained a concrete growth in 2016, totalling over $10.8 billion hardware revenues, with more than 21 million units shipped. Looking forward, IHS Markit expects the world market for motion control controls to sustain a steady growth trend, registering a 4.4 per cent revenue CAGR from 2016 to 2021, reaching nearly $13.4 billion in revenues in 2021.

30th June 2017

Mitsubishi Electric focus on processing and packaging at PPMA

28th June 2017

Motoman robots plus AirGrip equals a better grip on bottles

Bottling is an important stage in many manufacturing processes where liquid products are packaged as part of the final stage of production, for example in the brewing, distilling and beverage industries. The physical ‘bottle lifting’ process is a key part of this process and a new combination of an air gripper tool and sophisticated robot controller is helping manufacturers to get a better grip on their bottles and improve their bottling process.

28th June 2017

Cheeseburger lessons for UK manufacturing

At a typical high street fast food restaurant chain, you’ll pay in the order of £4.50 for a decent sized cheeseburger with fries and a soft drink. My local slightly more upmarket high street eatery wanted to charge me £12.50 for much the same meal. Granted you pay a premium for an upmarket ambience, but given that fries are fries and the soft drink was straight out of a bottle, most of the product differentiation was going to have to come in the cheeseburger itself, so I was intrigued to find out what the chef would do to raise his product above the lower cost option. And ‘raise’ turned out to be bang on the money, because what really set this cheeseburger apart was its height.

26th June 2017

Micro-Epsilon to showcase new thickness products at MENE 2017

At the Manufacturing & Engineering North East exhibition (6-7 July 2017) at Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Micro-Epsilon UK will present two new measurement systems.

10th June 2017

Renishaw's additive manufacturing powder expertise is at AMPM

Renishaw will present its findings in additive manufacturing metal powder re-use at the fourth annual AMPM (Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy) conference 2017. The event is set to take place at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, USA, June 13th-15th.

5th June 2017

PPMA Show 2017 - free registration now open

The PPMA Show, the UK's unmissable, free-to-attend, processing and packaging machinery exhibition returns to the NEC from 26-28 September to provide manufacturers with insights into machinery products, technologies and materials. Registration is now open and easier than ever before - taking less than three minutes for attendees to secure their place to join all corners of the industry together under one roof this autumn.

26th May 2017