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Olmec-UK, has designed and installed a machine vision system to determine the integrity of droppers for products such as ear drops at the final packaging stage. The system, built for a leading UK-based manufacturer of over the counter healthcare products, checks that the droppers are correct prior to them being placed in the carton with the product.

Motivated by significant changes to the Machinery Directive Safety Systems Technology has set up a bespoke service to design, manufacture and install machinery guarding, ensuring that machine manufacturers and users are compliant with the changes that have recently come into force.

Weldability-Sif, the UK based supplier of MIG, TIG, MMA, Spot and Oxy/Fuel welding and Plasma cutting machines, torches, accessories, consumables and personal protective equipment is working alongside The Welding Institute (TWI), Cambridge, the UK’s leading research institute in materials joining technologies and EAL certification, to initiate foundation level welder skills training at Stevenage Skills Centre as a first step towards a full appr...

Weldability-SIF, the UK based supplier of MIG, TIG, MMA, Spot and Oxy/Fuel welding and Plasma cutting machines, torches, accessories, consumables and personal protective equipment has lent its support and sponsorship to the NHC (North Hertfordshire College) “Support Young People” Campaign.

Weldability-Sif, UK based “one stop source” has agreed to help fund the e-learning Welding & Fabrication Consortium and has created an advanced e-learning package aligned to the National Occupational Standards and which covers all the welding, cutting and brazing processes. This package, which was developed by Weldability-Sif in co-operation with Carnegie College, who played a definitive role in developing the software and staging the product...

Offering grounded knowledge and skills training to new talents in the engineering and manufacturing industry - Sandvik Coromant in partnership with the EEF Apprentice and Skills Technology Centre, Birmingham, launches a technician apprentice training program at the same time as introducing a graduate trainee program. Both initiatives are aimed at attracting people keen to pursue a career in UK manufacturing.

Laidler Associate will be sponsoring the Demonstration Zone at the inaugural Health and Safety Ireland event which takes place at The National Show Centre, Dublin on the 16-17 November 2011. Laidler, who specialises in machinery safety legislation and risk assessments, will also deliver a presentation at Health and Safety Ireland on Practical Machinery Safety, including Guarding Issues. Using its virtual reality system to re-create a typical wor...

The latest edition of ‘A practical guide to machinery safety’, sponsored by Laidler Associates, part of the machinery division of TÜV SÜD Product Service, is now available for free download from the Laidler website.

Capacitec, Inc. has announced the successful application of high-temperature non-contact displacement sensors within disc brake wear analysis, glass manufacturing and aircraft engine testing applications. Since the 1970’s, Capacitec high temperature non-contact sensing technology has been in use in North America, Europe and Japan to solve the most demanding applications, measuring displacement of up to 0.4” (10 mm), within extreme temperatu...

Bell and Howell will showcase its Criterion APEX sorting system at drupa 2012. The Criterion APEX is one of the fastest sorters in the mailing industry, and has already a loyal European customer base. Bell and Howell will be exhibiting in Hall 4, Booth A24, May 3-16 in Dusseldorf, Germany.