I’d first like to take the opportunity to wish all our readers a very happy new year. I’m sure many people will be making new year’s resolutions and turning over new leaves for 2014 and here at Connecting Industry we’re no different. Over the next few issues we will be rolling out new templates across the Connecting Industry portfolio. With a new modern look and feel for the magazines we can’t wait to unveil the new design to our readers.
In our first issue of the new year we will be featuring a full preview of the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics show taking place at FIVE, Farnborough, on 12th-13th February. We ran a taster as part of last month’s cover story, so in this issue we go into greater detail on who’s exhibiting what at the event (page 23 and 26).
Continuing on the topic of exhibitions there’s also a review of the main themes of the Rockwell Automation Fair which I attended in Houston, Texas, last November. I caught up with Rockwell chairman and CEO, Keith Nosbusch, at the event, and in this issue we get his outline of the main themes of the show and some of the key issues within industry.
Also this month we cover machine safety, machine vision systems, manufacturing software, as well as an industry focus on the chemicals & pharmaceuticals sector.
Click here to view the digital issue for January 2014.
Joe Bush, Editor
