There’s no denying the enormous impact Industry 4.0 is having on technology, manufacturing and business. MiniTec is a company that is embracing the fast-changing developments. Not only are they enabling their own manufacturing process to become smarter, but they are also manufacturing solutions to allow other businesses to become smarter too.

There has been an evident increase in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-related technologies across all industries. This emerging technology has altered the way in which industries tackle work execution processes and therefore in turn altering the way that safety is managed.

MiniTec’s flexible modular aluminium profile system for industry has its key strength in its very simplicity. MiniTec offers a range of aluminium profiles, products and accessories to create a vast range of bespoke smart solutions for industry.

Sensonics have delivered the final tranche of machinery protection systems to the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant project in the UAE.

The PPMA Show, the UK’s free-to-attend, processing and packaging machinery exhibition, returns to the NEC from 25-27 September to provide manufacturers with insights into the latest machinery products, technologies and materials.

Even as machinery and equipment have become much more complex and sophisticated in recent years, still the essence of “safe operation” remains largely unchanged and therefore the most basic solutions to ensure safe operation are also largely unchanged.

You needn’t be! Harness the benefits of low cost, smart, easy to install/retrofit process optimisation systems from Werma. Much has been written about Industry 4.0 over the last few months. It is a fair bet though, that many Factory Managers are still less than clear about what it is and what it signifies. It is certainly not a specification which you can go out and buy, nor is it a norm such as ISO which a company can be audited against to obtain certification.