Marquardt GmbH recently converted every signal tower at its Rietheim-Weilheim plant into a machine data collection and monitoring system - and gained a ten percent increase in manufacturing efficiency as a result.
A few years ago, WERMA became involved in an application involving the use of an LED beacon to signal purchasing problems at unmanned retail cash desks.
WERMA and Total Protection - two Northamptonshire based companies - pool their expertise to improve the safety of operators at a South Wales chemical plant.
Machines and production cells that need to accommodate future expansion will require a flexible safety control system. Banner Engineering's new XS26-2, now available in the UK from Turck Banner, combines this flexibility with a highly intuitive programming interface.
The modular aluminium profile based machine building system from MiniTec is being used by British golf innovator, Zen, to develop an artificial putting platform.