James Fisher Nuclear selects Moog motion control system for new manipulator arm

Moog Industrial Group has supplied a motion control system and engineering services to James Fisher Nuclear (JFN) for the Moduman 100 manipulator arm which will be used for nuclear decommissioning.

NeoDyne announced as new Premier Partner by SolutionsPT

SolutionsPT has welcomed NeoDyne as the latest member of its exclusive Premier Partner network. The Cork-based business, which specialises in the food, beverage, natural gas, electricity, pharmaceutical, and mining industries, is the sixth member of the Premier Partner group, which brings system integrators together to utilise and share expertise, experiences and technological capabilities to ensure customers receive the best service and products across all industries.

Mitsubishi Electric robot emulates intuitive human cake icing movements

Solving a long-standing automation problem in cake decoration has also produced a groundbreaking development that could be taken up across a whole range of other industries.

ADLINK Technology acquires PENTA GmbH in Germany

ADLINK Technology, Inc. is announcing the 100 per cent share acquisition of PENTA GmbH in Germany for approximately 5.4 Mio. Euro based on the resolution of the board meeting held on 12 March 2014.

UK food industry warms up to robotics

The adoption of robotics over the last ten years has rapidly increased in sectors where fast and accurate assembly has been a top priority. The latest figures published by the British Automation and Robotics Association (BARA) also points to a recent acceleration in the deployment of robotics by UK food manufacturers, revealing a 60% increase in food sector adoption in 2013 compared to 2000**.

Sercos Community is on the increase

Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, has recently recorded worldwide membership growth. Innovasic joined the Sercos community as part of its continuous commitment to Industrial Ethernet. The company intends to develop and launch more Sercos-capable products throughout this year. Tom Weingartner, Vice President Marketing at Innovasic, says: "With Sercos your real-time and non-real-time messages can share the wire. Innovasic's Priority Channel Technology can help to make that even better. Supporting Sercos is a logical next step in our Industrial Ethernet strategy."

Keep on running with a Mitsubishi Electric service contract

With its 'make today, sell tomorrow' scheduling, the food and beverage manufacturing sector has an almost total intolerance to production breakdowns. They have developed sophisticated techniques to keep the lines working and the distribution channels full. Guy Kennett of Mitsubishi Electric explains that other sectors can benefit by adopting similar systems.

The robot revolution that never quite happened...

For Valentine's day, I offered my good lady wife a free choice of romantic movies at the Cinema, fully expecting to be dragged off to see The Invisible Woman, or Endless Love, or About Last Night, or Winter's Tale. In the event, the redoubtable Mrs Simms opted for the remake of Robocop. I wasn't complaining, although it does seem virtually impossible these days to do any sort of science fiction without some artificial life form or other. Actually, it wasn't a bad romp although, as Mrs Simms pointed out, it lacked a lot of the punch of the original. And she should know, having watched the 1987 version just the previous week while doing some ironing. It made me wonder how different things might have been if we owned one of those new ironing robots. My wife may never have revisited the original Robocop, probably wouldn't have been tempted by the remake, and I'd have lost two hours of my life in some celluloid period romance.

SEW Eurodrive completes move to new premises

SEW Eurodrive has completed a move to a large, new, purpose-built plant in Normanton, West Yorkshire, just a few miles from its old site. The impressive, high-tech new building, designed by architects AEDAS, is designed not just for production, Service and storage, but as a welcoming open-house for customers. It features a permanent working exhibition demonstrating all of the company's products, along with a range of modern training and meeting rooms to cater for all requirements.