Food Manufacturing

More power for the geared motor

At Drinktec 2013, Danfoss will introduce a gearbox extension to its VLT FlexConcept. The option is simply plugged in and increases the available torque of the VLT OneGearDrive to 1000Nm, which, for example, is suitable for specific haulage applications. The ISD 500 Series servo drives, which are specifically designed for applications in the food, beverage and packaging industries, will also be presented.

9th September 2013

National food and drink manufacturing conference 2013

The HSE's Agriculture and Food Sector and the Food and Drink Manufacture Health and Safety Forum are supporting the National food and drink manufacturing conference 2013, which takes place at the Oxford Belfry Hotel on 8/9 October 2013. Organised by IOSH, the event, Health and safety: refreshed, bottled and delivered, provides sector and legal updates and offers practical implementation session on the first day, and looks at culture and the workforce on the second day. Parts of the conference are aimed specifically at machinery and equipment designers and suppliers, and Pilz is one of the event sponsors.

5th August 2013

Festo is headline sponsor of Appetite for Engineering

Festo is the headline sponsor of Appetite for Engineering (A4E), the premier food and drink manufacturing conference taking place in Kenilworth on 25 September 2013.

26th July 2013

Bürkert reports excellent results from Total expo

The Total Processing & Packaging exhibition 2013, held in June at the NEC was a great success for Bürkert, with the sales team seeing a large number of industry professionals attending the stand with specific inquiries. With over 200 product or complete system inquiries from companies including Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and AstraZeneca, Bürkert is confident that the mix of innovative process valves, process control equipment and sensors it had on show at the exhibition was the right one to generate interest; especially for process engineers, designers and maintenance professionals looking for specific process options.

2nd July 2013

Invensys announces 2013 Customer Conference Series

Invensys will host a series of global customer conferences in 2013. The conferences will include individual meetings designed specifically for existing, new and potential users of the company's offerings from each of its major brands: Avantis, Foxboro, SimSci, Triconex and Wonderware.

28th June 2013

Stemmer wins "˜Most Innovative Machine Vision Project' award

Stemmer Imaging has won the award for the Most Innovative Machine Vision Project 2013, which is part of the Processing & Packaging Machinery Association Group Awards. Stemmer Imaging was nominated for its work in the development of the imaging system for the C-Cell bread & baked product quality assessment system manufactured by Calibre Control International Ltd.

20th June 2013

Invensys acquires SmartGlance mobile reporting software

Invensys has acquired the SmartGlance mobile reporting product of Sarla Analytics. Founded in 2010, Sarla Analytics is part of The Sarla Group of software companies. Sarla Analytics' mission is to leverage the power of enterprise mobility to increase productivity, reduce costs and streamline operations. SmartGlance, the industrial mobile reporting business app, delivers secure, on-demand access to rich, graphical reports from any operations data source via mobile devices, allowing industrial personnel to make smarter, faster decisions from anywhere, at any time and on any device.

16th June 2013

New safety training course: Use and supply of packaging machines

For many years Pilz has provided machine safety training, and its most popular courses have been its four-day City & Guilds course, and now also the four-day TUV Nord Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE) course. These courses provide a complete view of machine safety, so the delegates that have attended have been from a broad cross-section of industry.

11th June 2013

Leading UK manufacturers warn of rising cyber security attacks

British manufacturers have united to warn that businesses are facing a rapidly growing threat from deliberate industrial security breaches, noting that the sector needs to increase investment to ensure that industrial safety remains a top priority in the next five years.

11th June 2013