Today is March 29, 2019. The managing director of a manufacturing company in the UK is looking forward to welcoming his new director of R&D, who starts work today. he new director is French and he’s excited to be leading a team for a company known for its investment in innovation and developing new products. […]
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Automating Complex Composite Manufact...
anufacturing of complex, high value composite structures has, traditionally, been a hands-on manual process, where skilled laminators apply thin plies of reinforcement, one at a time, to build up the structures for applications such as aircraft and Formula 1 race cars. Enabling composites to move out of niche applications and reach the projected 2030 £12B […]
Graphene Electronics and Optoelectron...
he EPSRC-supported Graphene Electronics and Optoelectrics project is seeking to develop optoelectrics and applications across a number of areas. It is addressing how the material is made, which is important because, simply, if it cannot be made – economically – then it cannot be used. Depending on how it is made it […]
Mend The Gap – Marches Centre
ust over two years ago, the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) hosted the inaugural meeting of the advanced manufacturing companies at the Bridgnorth facility of Grainger & Worrall, a leading provider of high-precision casting technologies. During the meeting, executives from the major Shropshire-based engineering companies came to the conclusion that there was an over-arching skills […]
TAILPIPE EMISSIONS IS TIP OF ICEBERG ...
by Professor Mark Jolly hy don’t we have energy ratings labels for our cars and other vehicles? We think we already do – via the checks on tailpipe emissions and CO2 that are backed up by Government legislation and the car manufacturers themselves, always looking for ways to reduce emissions via lower fuel consumption. So […]
Mach 2018 Preview – The MTA
ACH 2018 will take place on the atrium side of the NEC, in Halls 17, 18, 19, 20, 6 and 7. This is the first move of the show since relocating to the NEC when it opened in 1976 and reflects the changing technologies the show covers. The new halls mean the show will take […]
AUTOMATING INDUSTRY WITH PEOPLE POWER
ccording to the latest Investment Monitor 2017/18 from manufacturing industry organisation the EEF, the UK is spending significantly less on machinery and equipment than its major European counterparts, many of which are ahead of us in terms of productivity. The UK, for example, uses only 71 robots per 10,000 employees, compared with 301 in Germany. […]
A Valuable Business Partnership for R...
Above: Rayner Surgical Group’s New Facility in Worthing, E Sussex, houses manufacturing operations, R&D laboratories, pre-production experimental factory and offices. Cataract surgery takes a matter of minutes and, with over 300,000 procedures carried out each year, it’s the most common surgery in the UK. Grateful patients have a man called Harold Ridley to thank […]
LAW: Fire Sale – Employment Tri...
There’s a good reason why the decision to abolish fees for bringing an employment tribunal was dubbed “the most important judgment in employment law in the last fifty years.” n a landmark ruling in July 2017, the Supreme Court told employees they no longer needed to pay to bring a claim against their employer, potentially opening […]
INDUSTRY 4.0 WILL ENABLE LEAP FORWARD...
he mode of working in process planning and programming of CNC-machines has not changed dramat- ically in the last 50-years. Computer assisted manufacturing, or CAM, made it possible to programme complex methods in machines with many axes, and CAM has also developed over time to be rather sophisticated software’s with a lot of support functions for […]