Industrial News


  • Coreless high-current sensors

    Capable of measuring high DC currents from 2kA up to 42kA without surge current limitations, the Open Loop Coreless Integral (OLCI) sensors feature a large aperture for accurate measuring of high currents on large busbars, with up to 1MHz bandwidth for high frequency applications. They are also significantly lighter (80%) and more cost-effective than open-loop…


  • Stackable multi-row board-to-board connector platform snaps together without solder

    ENNOVI’s ENNOVI-MB2B multi-row board-to-board (BTB) connector platform features a proprietary ‘snap-in biscuit’ design, allowing multiple connector units to be stacked together without solder. This approach enables different pin count requirements to be accommodated via the same basic interconnect platform, without any extra expense or engineering effort. The new multi-row BTB connectors feature ENNOVI´s 0.4mm miniPLX…


  • Polycarbonate enclosures for fume cupboard controls

    The laboratory is a crucial setting as a controlled environment across industrial and academic research for pharmaceutical development. To ensure the quality of production samples, as well as to protect the safety of personnel operating within these environments, fume cupboards are essential.  Durable enclosures are important to protect the control system’s electronics, and Spelsberg UK…


  • Lack of technology standardisation, port investment and manufacturing capability major hurdles in unlocking future of floating wind

    Published:  29 May, 2024 A survey by Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), a specialist energy market research and consultancy firm, has revealed a lack of standardisation of floating technology (55%), manufacturing capability and capacity (51%) and port infrastructure (50%) as the most commonly cited major hurdles and risks to floating offshore wind progress, indicating a…


  • ABL launches professional training courses

    Published:  29 May, 2024 Global energy and marine consultancy ABL has announced the launch of dedicated training products to support competence, technical development and reinforce best practice, across the oil and gas industry. The company says the courses have been developed through a combination of ABL’s multi-disciplined technical expertise and wealth of practical and operational…


  • Hygienic flow measurement for food and beverage production

    The SMF Foodmag from ifm provides a solution for hygienic flow measurement of a variety of media with a conductivity >5µS/cm – such as beer, milk, or fruit juice. It meets the stringent hygiene requirements of food and beverage production. The technology installed in every SMF device for these flow measurements covers changing media such…


  • PLC starter kit bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge 

    Arduino’s AKX00051 PLC Starter Kit, available at Mouser, delivers training for industrial automation admin 27th May 2024 Design, Electronics 18 Views The Arduino PLC IDE allows users to program in the five languages defined by the IEC 61131-3 standard: ladder diagram (LD), function block diagram (FBD), sequential function chart (SFC), structured text (ST) and instruction…


  • Midland Main Line prepares to turn power on to new electric wires

    Listen to this article A milestone has been reached for the electrification of the Midland Main Line after the final bridge was demolished on the Kettering to Wigston stretch to prepare for new overhead wires to be powered up. Over the weekend of 18 and 19 May, engineers successfully demolished the Three Arches bridge near…


  • Servomotors now with functional safety

    In plant and machine manufacturing, safety is a high priority. In order to fulfill this requirement, Brusatori Electric Motors (part of the KEB Group) has introduced a new mechanical mounting system for safe encoders for its DL4 series of servomotors that meets the requirements with safety functionalities and can assume Functional Safety functions together with…


  • Portable nitrogen membrane generators

    Atlas Copco has expanded its market stronghold with a range of portable nitrogen membrane generators: the NM series.  Four different models are available to be ordered, with each unit delivering a different amount of nitrogen. The NM 500-25​ and NM 1000-25​ are designed for smaller-scale applications with a lower need for nitrogen, while the NM…