Industry 4.0 is creating many engineering challenges for a variety of industries. When I spoke with Matthew Aldridge, managing director of igus, he explained how the company is improving upon its current technologies to create smart plastics specifically for Industry 4.0.
One of Europe’s largest manufacturers of toilet tissue and paper towels is now using a range of peristaltic hose pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group in its production processes.
Phil Burge, Country Communications Manager at SKF outlines key factors that impinge directly on the reliability and smooth running of pumps.
In many packaging applications, particularly in the food and beverage industries, the material of choice is metal, or more specifically aluminium.
Picture a construction site. Concrete needs to be delivered to the formwork, which may be overhead or underground, close to the concrete mixer or on the opposite side of the job site.