With so many news reports highlighting the importance of technology adoption to achieve productivity and efficiency improvements, we urge any Control Engineering Europe readers working in the Food manufacturing or processing sectors to take the time to attend this year’s Appetite for Engineering Conference, which will put a focus on the challenges and benefits of technology adoption on ...

Dec 16, 2024 · The Appetite for Engineering team are delighted to announce that at the 2025 event, Kati Gastrow, a Senior Industrial Security Engineer at Mars Inc and Kevin Ruff, Director of KNR Management Services Ltd, both members of the IMechE Food and Drink Engineering Committee, will give a joint presentation about the growing importance of cybersecurity as more food production plants adopt digital ...

May 11, 2024 · GreenIron chooses control technology for greater circularity (23/01/2025) ABB has been selected by GreenIron, a Swedish company supplying materials reductions technology in the mining and metals industries, to provide automation and control system solutions for a new commercial facility.

Jan 13, 2025 · IDEC Corporation has updated its SmartAXIS touch family with the new FT1J Series combined PLC+HMI which combines a built-in full function controller, both onboard and expandable I/O, and a 4.3in touchscreen display, in a compact all-in-one form factor for visualising and automating a wide range of applications.

Jul 8, 2023 · Brusatori Electric Motors (part of the KEB Group) has introduced a new mechanical mounting system for safe encoders for its DL4 series of servomotors that meets the requirements with safety functionalities and can assume Functional Safety …

4 days ago · Affordable small machine monitoring. 07 February 2025. Recognising the increasing demand for continuous protection and monitoring of smaller rotating plant – such as fans and blowers, centrifuges, pumps, motors and conveyors …

Editorial archive; Ride the technology wave at Appetite for Engineering 03/02/2025 With so many news reports highlighting the importance of technology adoption to achieve productivity and efficiency improvements, we urge any Control Engineering Europe readers working in the Food manufacturing or processing sectors to take the time to attend this …

Control valve improves process efficiency (09/12/2024) U.S. Vanadium, a supplier of vanadium compounds, relies on sliding gate valves to stabilise the process temperature during the production process.

Apr 9, 2023 · Listening to production noise to reduce costs (16/05/2024) Every factory or production plant is noisy, to various levels. It’s a consequence of machinery, pneumatics, hydraulics, motors, pumps, compressors, bearings, chains and other equipment used to manufacture and assemble products.

May 2, 2024 · While circumstances impact sectors differently, the most powerful differentiator behind every new opportunity is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It's what drives industrial machines to be more intelligent – producing data, identifying metrics and gaps, and generating actionable insights, says Marcel van Helten.