Automation + Control

The management of moving cables and hoses in machine building is critical to the safe operation and longevity of the equipment, with modern systems like energy chain cable carriers often replacing conventional systems like cable festoons, reels or free-hanging loops.

Join MESA – the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association – for Smart Manufacturing Now! the annual worldwide virtual event, this year scheduled for September 22 to 25. The theme – People. Planet. Profit – will spotlight how advanced technologies and innovative strategies are transforming manufacturing across industries and borders, delivering measurable benefits to people, the planet, and profits.

Bühler Networking Days 2025 brought together more than 1 200 business leaders from the food, feed, and sustainable mobility and materials sectors at the company’s headquarters in Uzwil, Switzerland, in June. Under the theme ‘Multiplying impact together’, the event focused on the challenge of building businesses concerned with feeding and moving 10 billion people sustainably by 2050. Marco Sutter, Managing Director of Bühler Southern Africa, says four local customers took part in the event.

To meet the growing demand for secure, flexible and reliable remote access in industrial network connectivity for its clients, Referro Systems has added Rockwell Automation’s Stratix 4300 to its inventory of products.

Hans Beckhoff, Managing Director and founder of Beckhoff Automation, the technology company headquartered in Verl, was recently honoured with the acclaimed Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025. Hans Beckhoff received this prestigious award in the category: Most Successful Innovation Achievement at the award ceremony held at the MAN Museum in Augsburg on July 10. The medal honours him as a visionary pioneer in automation technology.