productClarks’ automated warehouse hits 10 year milestone
KNAPP has rewarded its team of resident engineers for 10 years service at the automated warehouse of Clarks, the global shoe supplier.
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productPick & place motions with intelligent software
Fully fledged robot functions for simple gantry systems and automatic stackers can be designed more easily with the new robotics module in the Lenze FAST application software.
productModular Conveyor Platform for PPMA Show
Interroll will present its new modular conveyor platform for the first time in the UK at the PPMA 2015 show.
productIntegrated drive solutions
Interroll will show off its range of integrated drive solutions at the PPMA Show.
productChain conveyor
Dana UK Axle is benefiting from a triple strand chain conveyor designed, manufactured and installed by LB Foster Materials Handling.
product40 years of Expertise
From an idea that started in a humble bedroom back in the 1970’s, and 40 years later UPM Conveyors, specialist in manufacturing and producing conveying equipment, now occupies a 10,000ft2 factory in the heart of Berkshire.
productTriple Feed Conveyor System
MiniTec designed and built a bespoke conveyor system for a company that processes and manufactures plastic extrusions.
articleAdaptable antenna takes to curves
Harting has developed an RFID antenna designed for use with space constricted belt conveyors and can map curved tracks.
productControl spiralling bakery costs
L.A.C. Conveyor Systems exhibited several conveyors at this year’s PPMA Show including a prototype spiral bakery conveyor.
articleRobotic solution for mixed product pick
In response to rising retailer demand for mixed product trays, FANUC has collaborated with integrator Pacepacker Services to engineer a pot swap tray loading system.
productNew products shine at PPMA Show
Two new products from Elesa, on display this year at the recent PPMA Show, deal with rotating shafts or clamping adjustment for conveying and other applications.
articleIntroducing Carryline
Handling & Storage Solutions caught up with Applied Automation Industrial Systems at the PPMA Show to hear about new product ranges, and how the growing company has recently moved to much larger premises.
articleSupply chain agility
Today’s supply chains need to be more agile than ever before. Dave Berridge, Secretary of the Automated Material Handling System Association (AMHSA), considers some of the areas of innovation that can boost agility and also some of the barriers to implementing new technologies.
newsIgus showcases multi-direction drives for automated warehouses
Igus combines drylin SLW linear technology with opposed rotating leadscrews to provide flexible and precise drive systems for automated warehouses.
product3D software investment
A greater variety of applications for conveyors and the need for increased speed have driven change in the marketplace. In addition, PLCs now control systems that may incorporate product separation, centralising, orientation and merging or metal detection and weighting.
productStainless steel offering
Many of Euro-Bearings’s customers require linear bearing systems that need wash down or at least resistance to corrosion.
articleEnergy-efficient RollerDrive provides higher sustainability
Leading natural fashion retailer Hessnatur is using energy-saving 24 volt drive technology from Interroll at its dispatch centre.
articleWireless system transforms Ocado’s automated warehouse
Cambridge Consultants has collaborated on a wireless control system allowing the grocery retailer to co-ordinate the movements of hundreds of thousands of crates in real time and in parallel.
productSpiral conveyor record
A new state of the art distribution centre built for a leading garment retailer in Turkey includes some challenging elevation requirements. SpiralVeyors from AmbaFlex have been installed as a solution.
productWireless switching
steute develops and manufactures a wide range of switching devices which communicate by radio instead of signal cables. This makes switchgear installation easier and means that components which are often susceptible to wear and tear, such as cable carriers and slip rings, can be eliminated.
