SME MANUFACTURERS adopting robotics and automation, with the support of Made Smarter, are creating hundreds of new and upskilled jobs. Since 2019 the North West Adoption Programme, a collaboration between UK government and industry designed to support the increased use of digital technologies, has supported 41 businesses with 45 technology projects focused on robotics and automation machinery.
INNOVATION LEADERS in the West Midlands have called on the UK Government to consider the region as a home for the UK’s next Gigafactory. Dr Clive Hickman, the leader of the Manufacturing Technology Centre, and Margot James, the executive chair at WMG, University of Warwick have made the West Midlands’ compelling case for a new battery technology Gigafactory, which would support the heart of the UK’s auto industry.
BUSINESS GROUP, Logistics UK, has urged the government to prioritise work towards a sustainable solution to post Brexit import formalities to provide certainty for business. The call comes following the announcement that the introduction of health certification of imported products of animal origin (which include many food and drink items) has been pushed back from 1 October 2021 to July 2022.
AS MORE people return to the workplace, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is stressing the importance of good ventilation to support businesses minimise the risk of coronavirus.
KEB AUTOMATION has announced the appointment of Mark Checkley as managing director of KEB (UK) Ltd. He takes over the reins from Tom Skelton, who has retired after serving more than 27 years with KEB, with 15 years as managing director.
IN ORDER to bring effective, 24/7 condition monitoring to all sizes of business Turck Banner has introduced a self-contained, pre-programmed, starter kit for vibration and temperature monitoring at less than £600.
IN 2015, with business improving but original process equipment reaching end-of-life stage, Rebellion Beer Company, with impartial advice from heat transfer specialist Fulton, replaced its ageing steam boiler with a thermal fluid system. Six years on, Rebellion’s Mark Gloyens explains how brewery life has coped with the switch.
UKRI CHIEF executive, professor dame Ottoline Leyser has opened the Henry Royce Institute Hub building, the UK’s advanced materials research and innovation hub.
WITH growing focus on enhancing and monitoring the operational performance of rotating electrical machines, independent engineering group, Quartzelec, has signed a partnership agreement with Canada‑headquartered automated AI-based predictive maintenance solutions specialist and Maintec exhibitor, NanoPrecise.
VISITORS TO the Emerson stand at Maintec will be able to learn about the recently launched Plantweb Optics Data Lake, an enterprise-level data management software solution that helps manufacturers reduce data complexity so they can fully leverage operations data across a production site or multiple sites.
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