The demand from industry to provide sensors and equipment that can withstand arduous conditions presents an on-going challenge for manufacturers.
Visitors to the Telsonic UK stand at this year’s PDM exhibition will be able to see a live demonstration of ultrasonic welding on plastic parts, using one of the company’s hand held systems.
IDEC introduce its new laser scanner (SE2L) with features such as 270° protection, 5m sensing range, 20m warning zone and a "master/slave" function (a maximum of 4 SE2Ls can be inter-connected using RS485).
The Elesa range of standard machine elements is designed around the needs of manufacturing in all industry sectors, many of which will be on display at the 2018 MACH Exhibition, taking place on 9-13 April at NEC Birmingham.
Machine safety is the responsibility of all machine designers, manufacturers and end-users from both a legal and moral standpoint. In the past the desire to offer the very best protection has sometimes been tempered with the need to keep costs down, prompting the question – What price safety?