Firms plan to invest in automation, but training is lagging
13 September 2022 An ABB survey of business leaders in Europe and the US has revealed that most are planning to invest in automation and to re-shore their… Read More
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Government reveals plans to simplify move to UKCA mark
21 June 2022 The UK Government has announced a series of changes intended to make it easier for British businesses to apply the new UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed)… Read More
Skills and costs are now the biggest fears for UK manufacturers
10 January 2022 More than half of UK manufacturers say that their biggest challenges have changed over the past 12 months. According to a new survey by Make… Read More
UK could create 1.2m green manufacturing and construction jobs
11 October 2021 Around 1.2 million green jobs could be created in the UK’s manufacturing and construction sectors by 2050 – but only if the Government provides the… Read More
UK government delays UKCA marking by a year
9 September 2021 The UK Government has announced that businesses will have an extra year before they have to start using the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking on… Read More
Next-gen cobots ‘will unlock automation for new sectors’
24 February 2021 ABB has extended its portfolio of collaborative robots (cobots) with two new easy-to-program six-axis models which, it claims, set new benchmarks and are up to… Read More
EU border red tape is disrupting UK manufacturers
1 February 2021 The manufacturers’ group Make UK is calling for the Government to tackle the border delays being caused by complex paperwork since the UK left the… Read More
Made Smarter manufacturers expect to create 750 jobs
22 December 2020 Manufacturers in North West England that have been supported by Made Smarter, the initiative that is helping UK SMEs to adopt Industry 4.0 principles, are… Read More
Innovation hubs will help manufacturers to go digital
16 November 2020 The High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the Made Smarter movement are setting up a network of innovation hubs that will help UK manufacturers to cut… Read More
SME manufacturers urge Boris Johnson to avoid no-deal Brexit
1 July 2020 More than 100 UK SME manufacturers and organisations representing them have written to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, warning him that a no-deal or bad-deal… Read More
