productSchneider Electric and Cisco have formed a technology partnership designed to help drive major advances in making smart buildings the standard. Working together, the two companies have developed, tested and validated designs that help connect building management systems to an Internet Protocol (IP) network with a secure, scalable and resilient architecture that is easy to manage.
productMade Smarter and UK Research and Innovation have launched two funding competitions for Britain’s most innovative businesses to come together to develop world-leading digital technologies to boost supply chain productivity and resilience to turbo-charge the Covid recovery.
newsCoventry University and TWI Ltd are set to build on their long-standing relationship with the inception of the Fatigue and Structural Integrity Innovation Centre, a new venture that will provide a further platform through which to combine their complementary skills and experience in delivering industry-led research and development (R&D) in the areas of fatigue and structural integrity.
productGMB, the energy union, has hailed the announcement of the world’s largest clean hydrogen plant – and called on the government to make bold steps towards a greener economy.
productFurther to detailed conversations with the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), and in the interests of health and safety for all concerned, the PPMA has taken the decision to postpone this year’s PPMA Show until 2021 (28-30 September).
productNineteen, organisers of Maintec 2020, have announced that the UK’s premier maintenance engineering event will be postponed until 27th-28th April 2021. The event was due to run this November at the NEC, Birmingham.
newsThe first major engineering works on FASTBLADE, a state-of-the-art composite structures research facility will begin in July as part of an industry-academic partnership between Babcock International Group (Babcock) and the University of Edinburgh.
productBrexit will have significant adverse effects on a UK manufacturing sector highly integrated with the EU single market, and that disruption will have a sizeable negative impact on the wider UK economy, a new report by UK in a Changing Europe finds.
newsHelping to maintain safe, healthy, effective operations and develop members of staff without face-to-face training sessions, Make UK, Fujitsu UK and IOSH have collaborated to deliver new learning experiences online to help firms sustain business continuity through the coronavirus crisis and recover.
productSince its founding in 1936, Buehler has partnered with research centres and industries to deliver metallographic products and materials testing solutions that are used around the world. It remains committed to safe continuity of operations despite today’s challenging times.
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