The value of UK manufacturing output increased by £21bn in 2025, despite a workforce reduction of more than 36,000 people and 2,500 fewer manufacturers, according to an analysis of ONS data by FourJaw ...
ABB, Phoenix Contact, WSCAD and the enclosure specialist, häwa – have demonstrated what they claim is the world’s control ...
Schneider Electric claims to have developed industry’s first open, software‑defined DCS (distributed control system). Called ...
Phoenix Contact has announced a new way of tackling the challenge of integrating a variety of signals in small, decentralised ...
The Canadian machine vision specialist LMI Technologies has announced a “new class” of industrial 2D vision systems that incorporate Nvidia’s Orin NX edge-native AI, resulting in integrated vision ...
W H Shoebridge & Sons, the East Midlands electric motors business established more than a century ago, has been sold to Ipswich-based Boardley & Roberts for an undisclosed sum. Shoebridge was formed ...
Phoenix Contact has launched a hardware-independent, software controller based on its PLCnext technology. It predicts that Virtual PLCnext Control, which allows flexible automation functions to be ...
Infinitum, the US developer of air-core motors with PCB stators, has unveiled a high-efficiency integrated fan system that, ...
Trio Motion Technology has launched an I/O system that extends the control and connection capabilities of its new Motion-PLC ...
US-based Convergix Automation Solutions has bought AGR Automation, a UK-based automation designer and systems integrator, whose headquarters are in Arbroath, Scotland. AGR also owns Aylesbury ...
ABB is buying Siemens Gamesa’s power electronics business in Spain to strengthen its position in the booming market for high-power renewable energy conversion technologies. The acquisition will expand ...
Flexxbotics’ platform offers interoperability between more than 1,000 makes and models of factory equipment Flexxbotics, the US specialist in autonomous manufacturing, has made its software-defined ...