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
22 March 2023 The German car-maker BMW has started to “operate” a new plant virtually, more than two years before the real factory begins production. In what it… Read More
7 March 2023 The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has appointed the former chair of Ford of Britain, Dr Graham Hoare, to succeed Dr Clive Hickman as its CEO,… Read More
1 July 2021 The Californian electric motor developer and manufacturer Turntide Technologies has bought a third business in the North East of England – Cramlington-based Avid Technology, which… Read More
8 June 2021 The Californian motor developer Turntide Technologies, has acquired two UK businesses, Hyperdrive Innovation and the engineering technical centre business of BorgWarner Gateshead, and plans to… Read More
30 March 2021 Investment funds set up by the actor Robert Downey Jr and Microsoft founder Bill Gates and are among the latest investors in the Californian motor… Read More
24 July 2020 A Californian company which claims to have developed “the world’s most efficient and intelligent electric motor system”, has renamed itself as part of its aim… Read More
5 February 2020 A GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical plant in Hertfordshire has become the first UK factory to be chosen to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse network of… Read More
3 January 2020 Beckhoff Automation has signed a deal with BMW to supply the car-maker with industrial PC (IPC) technology for use in its production facilities worldwide during… Read More
2 January 2020 Rittal and two of its sister companies in the Friedhelm Loh Group – German Edge Cloud and IoTOS – have joined forces with Bosch Connected… Read More
