Machine Building Features

Maximum safety combined with optimised productivity

Maximum safety combined with optimised productivity

With the latest safety technologies, safety can be maximised with assured compliance to the most stringent standards and boost productivity at the same time. Jeremy Shinton of Mitsubishi Electric explains.

Vehicle fit-outs are a breeze with this profile system

Vehicle fit-outs are a breeze with this profile system

Flexibility is a key factor when fitting out specialist vehicles. The requirements for different types of specialist vehicles, each with their own unique structure and configuration can be very diverse. That’s where this modular aluminium profile system comes in very handy.

Precision robot and integrated vision system is able to pick stem cells

Precision robot and integrated vision system is able to pick stem cells

A dynamic British company has harnessed the precision of robots, the flexibility of machine vision and powerful laboratory automation software to push forward stem cell research.

Industrial indicators: less heat, more light

Industrial indicators: less heat, more light

In 1840, British astronomer and chemist, Warren de la Rue, enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it, thus creating the world’s first light bulb – a full 40 years before Thomas Edison was issued a patent for creating it.

A platform for the future of air travel

A platform for the future of air travel

The Airbus A350 XWB twin engine jetliner is one of the most eagerly anticipated new aircraft currently being built. Hailed as the future of air travel, the A350 XWB (XWB = extra wide body) has already taken 548 orders without even leaving the factory, let alone the runway. The wings for the new aircraft are manufactured at Broughton near Chester and Electroimpact, a leading designer of tooling and automation for the aerospace sector, was appointed to design and construct the manufacturing system

fonts/
or