Posted on 4 May 2022 by The Manufacturer DispatchTrack has announced new clients, partnerships, and geographic reach as it continues its accelerated growth strategy. The news comes after, earlier this year, announcing its expansion into the UK with new headquarters as part of its global expansion.The new clients include Keen & Able, Cousins Furniture, Al…
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has chosen Liferay as a core digital infrastructure component in the factory of the future at the Digital Manufacturing Accelerator (DMA).The initiative lets manufacturers experience the advantages of industry 4.0, IoT, smart manufacturing, robotics, and automation in a risk-free environment with accurate financial and operational projections in relation to selected…
We’re all guilty, every once in a while, of putting off tasks we’re not eager to deal with. In fact, statistics suggest that procrastination is a very common habit, with 25% of the adult population considering it a personality trait. However, when it comes to industrial equipment, there are some things that just cannot be…
The Managing Director of Siemens Digital Industries, Brian Holliday has recently been appointed as the Co-chair of the Made Smarter Commission alongside Lee Rowley MP, Minister for Industry for the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Brian will take over from former Siemens CEO Professor Juergen Maier. The Manufacturer Editor, Joe Bush, recently…
How are manufacturers and logistics companies using new advancements in machine vision to transform their operations? In this whitepaper, techonology provider, Zebra, looks at the enterprise-technology solutions that can provide visibility as to what is happening in your manufacturing environment. The world is changing quicker than at any other time in history, and the manufacturing…
Gravitricity has secured a £912,000 grant from the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to develop plans for a multi-weight energy storage system – to be built on a brownfield site in the UK.The Edinburgh-based energy storage specialists will work alongside control and simulation experts Industrial Systems and Control (ISC), winch specialists Huisman…
Manufacturing jobs are changing. Factories of the future will continue to see a rise in automation, changing demographics, and an emphasis on knowledge-based positions.There also seems to be a shifting mentality towards manufacturing jobs. With the next generation of workers less inclined to enter the manufacturing industry, factories around the world are facing the risk…
To support and accelerate the digitalisation of the manufacturing industry, Innovate UK KTN is working with UKRI to drive innovation to support the adoption of digital technology through Made Smarter Innovation. Made Smarter Innovation is one of UKRI’s Industrial Strategy challenge programmes, investing £147m into creating a fully connected, dynamic manufacturing ecosystem inspiring innovation across…
As a key industry player in the manufacturing space, Mitsubishi Electric (MEUS) was under pressure. Despite the company’s international reach, its legal and compliance team was spread thin.Third-party due diligence checks were usually conducted in an ad-hoc fashion, frequently resulting in cursory internet searches, which often proved cumbersome and ineffective. Furthermore documents were largely paper…
Having secured £450m from government and investors, Rolls-Royce is moving ahead with its small modular reactor (SMR) venture, which forms part of the government’s 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution over the next decade. This new generation of nuclear reactors will be quicker and cheaper to roll out than their traditional large-scale counterparts.Ahead of…
Calibration Select, a new service offering launched in 2019 by weighing and metrology equipment calibration service provider, Avery Weigh-Tronix, offers the industry a fast and effective five day turnaround as standard, through use of its brand new, high-tech laboratory.Utilising a network of over 150 UK-based service engineers to aid its collection and delivery service, the…
What do stone-age hunter gatherers, weavers from the 18th century, and 21st-century chip manufacturers have in common? Each experienced large increases in productivity due to innovative advances in technology. And they are not alone: innovation has been renewing the world for a long time and new ways of doing and making things have been changing…