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This session looks at how manufacturing businesses can strengthen resilience across their supply chains in an uncertain economic environment. We’ll share an overview of current manufacturing and economic trends, discuss practical ways to protect cash flow, and explore key sector challenges, including geopolitical risk, fraud and ESG pressures, before opening the floor for Q&A and discussion.

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Presented by Jamie Thomas, Machinery Safety Specialist, PILZ

 

The Machinery Regulation that replaces the Machinery Directive will apply from January 2027. This workshop will give a summary of the most important innovations and changes - including aspects such as Industrial Security and Digitisation – and will arm delegates with an action plan to meet the new Safety and Security requirements on plant and machinery.

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Grid congestion, volatile energy prices and tightening CO₂ targets are fundamentally changing how industrial systems are designed.

Increasing capacity is no longer just a question of power availability, but of smarter system choices. The real gains are not found in individual components, but in how drives, control, mechanics and data work together as one system.

Right‑sizing, energy recovery and measurable performance turn energy efficiency from a cost discussion into a competitive advantage. In a congested energy landscape, saving kilowatt-hours has become a form of expansion—without building more infrastructure.

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Presented by: Neil March, MX Product Specialist, BECKHOFF

Deliver faster installs and lower costs with an IP67, cabinet-free automation platform that puts control and drives at the machine edge—reducing wiring, downtime and enabling smarter, data-driven production.

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Presented by Jason Johnson, Sales Manager UK & Ireland, B&R

Machine Centric Robotics (MCR) integrates robots of any articulation directly into the machine automation platform. This simplifies control, reduces cost, and increases performance.

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Presented by Edmundo Perich, Vice President of Sales

UK safe isolation has always ended with the same step: prove dead. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 demand adequate precautions; HSG85 codifies proving dead as one of them; every competent electrician does it. Yet the method — two-pole testing with the door open, in PPE — has barely changed in forty years. BSEN 50110:2023 opens a new path: permanent, supervisory-verified Absence of Voltage Testing with the panel closed. This session examines the engineering principles behind direct-contact AVTs, how they differ from capacitive voltage indicators, and what they mean for machine builders designing safe, compliant switchgear today.

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Presented by Phil Cattaneo, Business Development Director, SRCI on behalf of PI UK

UK safe isolation has always ended with the same step: prove dead. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 demand adequate precautions; HSG85 codifies proving dead as one of them; every competent electrician does it. Yet the method — two-pole testing with the door open, in PPE — has barely changed in forty years. BSEN 50110:2023 opens a new path: permanent, supervisory-verified Absence of Voltage Testing with the panel closed. This session examines the engineering principles behind direct-contact AVTs, how they differ from capacitive voltage indicators, and what they mean for machine builders designing safe, compliant switchgear today.

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Presented by Andy Ellis, Product Manager Automation - MEng, Phoenix Contact, and Andy Maskell, Product Manager Safety – FS Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) CMSE CECE, Phoenix Contact on behalf of PI UK

Machine safety standards and technologies continue to evolve as automation systems become more connected and complex.

This session provides an update on recent developments in PROFIsafe, explaining how modern safety communication systems enable safer, more reliable machine operation while supporting flexible automation architectures and simplified safety integration.

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Presented by Iain Hill, Senior Systems Engineer, Endress and Hauser on behalf of PI UK

Industrial Ethernet is entering a new phase with technologies designed to simplify connectivity across both discrete and process industries.

This session explores the potential of Advanced Physical Layer (APL) and Single Pair Ethernet (SPE), two technologies that enable long-distance, high-performance communication while simplifying infrastructure and expanding connectivity in modern industrial environments.

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