19 February 2024 Siemens has bought the German visual inspection start-up Inspekto from its venture capitalist owner, D11Z Ventures, for an undisclosed sum. Inspekto has developed an AI-driven,… Read More
7 February 2024 Senseye, the UK-based condition monitoring specialist acquired by Siemens in 2022, has added a generative AI (artificial intelligence) function to its predictive maintenance Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),… Read More
2 February 2024 A Greek automation start-up has announced an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) controller that can be programmed and monitored via a smartphone, and avoids the… Read More
1 February 2024 Mitsubishi Electric has developed an AI tool that analyses manual tasks on production lines in a few minutes and visualises how the tasks could be… Read More
18 January 2024 ABB is buying a majority stake in the Bosnian software service provider Meshmind to expand its R&D capabilities in AI, industrial IoT and machine vision. Read More
11 January 2024 ABB is buying the Swiss AI-based AMR navigation specialist Sevensense, for an undisclosed sum. ABB, which has had a minority stake in Sevensense since 2021,… Read More
8 January 2024 British manufacturers are viewing the UK as a more competitive place to locate their activities than they did 12 months ago, with an growing number… Read More
4 January 2024 A consortium of German organisations, led by Schaeffler, is developing techniques that will allow electric motor components to be re-used at the end of the… Read More
22 November 2023 Plastics specialist igus has developed an app that uses AI to identify machinery and to suggest lubrication-free components that could be used in it. The… Read More
22 November 2023 Coventry University has relaunched its Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) with a £6m expansion aimed at helping UK manufacturers on their journeys to… Read More
