Idem Safety Switches designs and manufactures a vast range of machine safety products that save lives and improves productivity. Each product has been engineered with the customer in mind, ensuring long term reliability, even in the harshest of environments.

https://idemsafety.com/

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH develops powerful, easy-to-use USB, GigE and 3D cameras with a wide range of sensors and variants. The industrial cameras can be used in a wide variety of non-industrial and industrial sectors such as equipment, plant and mechanical engineering. With the vision app-based, intelligent IDS NXT cameras and Ensenso 3D robot vision solutions, IDS opens up new dimensions in image processing. The headquarters in Obersulm, Germany, is both a development and production site. The company is represented internationally, e.g. with offices and branches in the USA, United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea. www.ids-imaging.com

https://en.ids-imaging.com/

Automation systems in the food manufacturing and processing sector depend on data from huge numbers of sensors. The most important parameters monitored by these sensors include pressure, temperature, flow and level. ifm offers a huge range of sensors in hygienic versions designed specifically for food industry applications.

Sensor level communication means IO-Link from ifm. All of the company’s new sensors use this digital protocol. With IO-Link, interference on the connecting cable to the sensor has no effect on the accuracy of the measurement.

Visit ifm to learn more about our range of sensors and lossless communication with IO-Link.

https://www.ifm.com/gb/en

Based centrally in Northampton, with global manufacturing in Germany, igus® is the motion plastics company; if it moves then igus® improves, using self-lubrication lubrication-free technical polymers. The range includes e-chain® cable carriers, chainflex® continuous-flex cables, iglidur® plastic plain bearings, igubal® spherical bearings, drylin® linear bearings and guide systems, low cost robotics, gears, slewing rings, and much more! Within these product groups are parts specifically designed for the food industry, FDA approved, hygienic design, and proven in thousands of applications.

https://www.igus.co.uk/

The UK branch of the globally successful company has been in Milton Keynes since 1986, moving into a much bigger facility in 1989. This has given the branch the opportunity to grow to where we are today, in the same location but consistently growing and evolving as a sales operation year on year.

From our marketing leading Linear Guides, a solid network of UK distributors handling the Needle Bearings and the more recently added Precision positioning stages we offer an extensive range where service and quality is never compromised.

The Milton Keynes office is run by 8 office staff including management, a 2 man team in the warehouse managing approx 4 million pounds of stock.

https://www.ikont.eu/en/