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Avoid unplanned downtime with igus smart plastics

Avoid machine downtime – incorporate smart plastics in your production line

The cosmetics industry heavily relies on their production line in order to meet business expectations and perform successfully. Therefore, just like production line’s in any industry, unplanned downtime due to equipment failure cannot be a possibility. With industry 4.0 at igus®, you won’t have to worry about unanticipated pauses in production that can lead to huge expenses for your organisation.

Want to go racing? Greaves 3D and igus® bring racing to students

Collaborating with customers and working on a project for students at a University is so rewarding. igus® and Greaves 3D Engineering came together at an event this week at the University of Northampton to celebrate the racing simulator designed and built by Greaves 3D, incorporating igus® products for the students at Northampton University!

How important is smart plastics technology in automotive production?

No one likes a failure. In our own lives or in industry. Both can be catastrophic. Heart failure can shut the body down, a technical failure can shut a production line down. Obviously different levels of catastrophe; however, in automotive production, a failure can shut production lines costing tens of thousands of pounds every hour they are down.