Engineering

Image showing elevator involved in the second incident. British Airways has been fined more than £3 million after pleading guilty to health and safety offences related to two incidents in which employees fell from height and sustained serious injuries. The injured workers had been using mobile elevators similar to machinery in widespread use in manufacturing…

CNC Speedwell Ltd, part of the Castings PLC Group, and one of the UK’s largest CNC machine shops, partnered with ICS Cool Energy, an international market leader specialising in complete temperature control solutions for manufacturing process and facilities applications, to transform the cooling of their machining operations.  The Challenge CNC Speedwell’s two factories in the West…

ABB and Red Hat have announced an extended collaboration to develop automation systems for the future of industrial IT, enabling more secure and modular deployment of control applications for process industries. The collaboration builds on ABB’s automation capabilities and Red Hat’s enterprise open source platforms, combining industrial innovation and digital capabilities including data analytics and…

Vaisala has launched a new, low maintenance dew point and temperature probe to monitor environmental conditions in critical manufacturing rooms and spaces.  The Vaisala DMP1 Dew Point and Temperature probe has dew point measurement capability down to -70°C, and a rapid response, said to be hundreds of times faster than other measurement technologies. The DMP1…

SICK Intelligence has launched what it says is a state-of-the-art absolute encoder, the ANS/ANM58 PROFINET, that marks a new generation of absolute encoders specifically designed for higher machine and system productivity.  The compact ANS/ANM58 is available in both single-turn and multiturn variants, and comes with the PROFINET global, cross-industry ethernet fieldbus standard for industrial automation.…