A team of engineers at the University of Sunderland’s Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) have come up with some clever products designed to help prevent the spread of Covid 19.

All industrial operations are continually driving to improve efficiency and productivity to increase profit margins and maximise bottom-line returns. In many sectors (such as the Oil and Gas Industry), this drive occurs against a back drop of heightened health and safety demands and environmental concerns as well as the need to implement improvements on old assets that can often be operating beyond their initial design life.

SICK has unveiled its SIG200 PROFINET Sensor Integration Gateway, the first in a family of intelligent Industry 4.0 gateways designed to work as both IO-Link Masters and small, distributed control systems in one. It makes light work of configuring localised sensor applications and, at the same time, opens up high-speed transfer of sensor status, parameter and diagnostics data with enterprise-level or cloud-based systems.

Quality control in the pharmaceutical industry is a key component in the manufacturing of life saving drugs.

Monitoring the levels of microbial bioburden of raw materials, in-process samples, and final product requires products with precision.  Accidental contamination (false positives) due to manipulation in the lab can lead to manufacturing slowdowns, financial losses, and potential drug delivery delays to patients in need.

Every year we create huge amounts of plastic waste,Germany alone produces almost 6 million tonnes per year. Around one million tonnes of this waste comes from industrial sources, while the remaining 5 million tonnes come from domestic and commercial end users. Plastic waste which comes from domestic and commercial end users is referred to as post-consumer plastic i.e. plastic waste that is not involved in the production of another product.

TECNA is a high quality Resistance Welding product which Wilkinson Star has distributed for over 30 years.  Wilkinson Star is the UK’s sole exclusive importer of TECNA Resistance Welding Equipment.

Artificial intelligence opens up new fields of application for camera technology and image processing. It can be
used, for example, to classify fruit varieties or to identify damaged parts (e.g. apples with marks or color deviations).
To cover all possible variances with classical image processing would be very time-consuming and costly.

ACEINNA (https://www.aceinna.com) today announced that their MCx1101 Current Sensor was named as the 2019 Sensor Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine