20th March 2026
What if one gateway could unlock smarter fire safety without rewiring everything you’ve built? Imagine expanding your fire detection system without disruption. Imagine a wireless system, fully integrated with your addressable panel protocol. With Kidde Commercial’s EXCELLENCE SmartCell Gateway, all of this is possible.
19th March 2026
Electric motors are the workhorses of modern industry. From packaging and assembly to robotics and material handling, almost every motion depends on them. Studies suggest that motors account for around two-thirds of all electricity consumed in industry[1]. Even small gains in efficiency therefore have a measurable impact — not only in energy costs but also in meeting wider environmental and regulatory goals.
11th March 2026
Often misunderstood, steam powers a wide range of modern industrial processes, from precision industrial-scale cooking through to electronics manufacturing. Getting steam control right is critical, not just for application performance, but also for efficiency, maintenance, and safety requirements.
10th March 2026
Calculating an application’s motion profile is crucial to optimising its performance. While modern control architecture can create profiles according to high-level limits, understanding the underlying mathematics allows engineers to improve precision and throughput.
6th March 2026
Worn Again Technologies unveils the Accelerator, the next major step towards commercialising its pioneering Textile-to-Fibre recycling process and proving the technical and economic feasibility of polycotton recycling.
4th March 2026
For OEMs and integrators who rely on industrial enclosures to protect their devices and control systems, assembly is another task to add to the project timeline. Fitting items ranging from DIN rails and terminals through to keypads and labelling, assembly can also be a resource-intensive activity. Instead, outsourcing enclosure assembly can streamline operations, especially when it’s managed directly by the enclosure manufacturer.
24th February 2026
The government’s new homes and construction initiatives mean that speed of development is essential. To achieve these goals, concrete is playing an important role, with off-site manufacturing optimising efficiency. Across all building developments, fast and secure electrical installation is fundamental, but when working with concrete, effective and reliable integration of electrical enclosures and conduits is an even more important process.
Electric linear actuators are increasingly preferred over hydraulic and pneumatic systems for applications requiring precise, repeatable linear motion, even in extreme environments. Fully sealed housings protect internal mechanics and electronics from dust, moisture, corrosion, and shock, while maintaining consistent force and precise positioning. With the right specification, electric linear actuators are well suited to high-force, heavy-duty industrial operations, as well as hygienically sensitive applications such as food & beverage production.
When people talk about mechatronics, it’s often framed as something futuristic — the next big leap in automation. In truth, it describes something engineers have been working toward for decades: designing machines where the mechanical, electrical, and control systems work together as one.
In 2022, more than 30,000 people in the UK were undergoing kidney dialysis. For every one of those patients, water quality is not a background consideration but a frontline safety issue. Dialysis machines rely on large volumes of treated water, and any trace contaminants that remain can pass directly into the bloodstream. Among the most critical of these contaminants is chlorine.