When implementing a robot cell one of the major considerations must be the safety of operators working in the area of the cell who also occasionally need to enter it.
The biggest barrier facing today’s graduates is being rejected for jobs based on lack of work experience. If not enough experience stops them securing a role, how can they gain the necessary experience without being offered a job in the first place, asks Nikki Morris.
Despite the emergence of alternative control solutions, the popularity of the PLC endures. Hugh Tasker offers ten reasons why you still need a programmable logic controller.
The government has withdrawn funding for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology competition just six months before it was to be awarded.
What happens when you are making a piece of kit, or even worse have designed, built and launched a machine, and the position sensor becomes unreliable?