Automation and digitisation are advancing in the food industry, particularly in the area of inline quality management where continuously monitoring packaging production with machine vision increases efficiency and significantly reduces the number of recalls. With the support of MVTec Software, PackCheck has developed a modular solution for ensuring packaging quality.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Mark Bettington, ICT and vision sales leader at Routeco about the company's unified robot control demo, and the integration of robotics into the wider mechatronics space.

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection announces an informative webinar titled 'Superior Inspection of Canned Good with X-ray Inspection'. This highly anticipated event will take place on Wednesday, 22 January 2025, at 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM UK time.

Stockport-based Macpac has designed and produced an innovative dome-shaped style pack for Martin's Chocolatier's premium new Snow Globe chocolate Santa and snowball truffles product.

Turkish-style meat specialist Solmaz Foods never undervalues the importance of food safety. The Canadian-based halal meat processor describes its four Fortress Technology metal detectors as "essential equipment" that shows regulatory food quality control inspectors that they have the right safeguards in place.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Miklos Bakos, OEM offer manager at Schneider Electric, about robotics and automation.

At the Smart Production Systems (SPS) exhibition in Nuremberg, Contrinex's stand featured a display visualising the precision of its analogue inductive sensors, which were, on this occasion, used within its SMART measurement sensors. The display featured a metal cylinder, and visitors were encouraged to squeeze it like a fairground test of strength.

At MachineBuilding.Live 2024, TEN Editor Mark Simms talks to Mark Richards, UK sales manager at Beckhoff UK, about the company's XPlanar transport system.

ERIKS Industrial Services is to add additional strategic stocks to its Aberdeen and Plymouth service centres. This is to further support the Fulfilment Centre of Expertise (FCE) to achieve its target of next day delivery of parts, fully tracked before 9am for 100% of customers.

MachineBuilding.Live 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, included a world-class Workshop Programme. Here, Dave Breckell, market development manager at OMRON, provides a comprehensive exploration into machine maintenance, shedding light on common pitfalls and presenting strategies to streamline and prioritise maintenance tasks for newer machinery.