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CONCRETE ON A ROLL

By installing servo drives servo drives with integrated functional safety, HMIs and
controllers its new production line, Concrete Canvas has reduced wiring installation
costs and has greater flexibility in terms of future expansion plans
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SKILLS SHORTAGE LOOKS SET

TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
PERFORMANCE SAILING

TruSail is a UK-based performance sailing specialist and the name of a modular
wireless sensing telemetry system that provides a unique scientific and measurable
SMART GRAVEL PLANT tool for racing sailboats

A Swiss building material company has modernised its
plant with digitalisation components from Siemens,
enabling control of the plant from a tablet PAGE 32 The efficiency of a bioconversion plant using organic food waste to
36 feed insects that go on to nourish farm animals and fish is being
dramatically improved with variable frequency drive (VFD) technology

29 Productivity levels across the UK have long been a source of debate. 38 As part of MRMC’s impressive array of ‘motion rigs’, Heason has
However, the route to improve and enhance productivity has changed
recently supplied design expertise and components for an EtherCAT
controlled 6-axis hexapod that is used as a model mover
dramatically in recent years
30 It takes just 17 seconds for a new high-speed drilling unit to drill one On average, business and IT
hundred precision holes 6mm in diameter and depth in a coated
TENTS waste 30% of their time at work
composite wood panel, the type typically used for kitchen furniture
decision makers from UK
manufacturing organisations

on tasks that do not add critical
value. This is according to
Vanson Bourne research
commissioned by Dropbox which
revealed that monotonous admin
is starving UK manufacturing
businesses of innovation
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