24 June 2020 The Brazilian motors and controls manufacturer WEG is acquiring a controlling stake (51%) in Mvisia, a Brazilian start-up that specialises in applying AI (artificial intelligence)… Read More
8 June 2020 Make UK, the body that represents UK manufacturers, is calling on the government to introduce a scrappage scheme for old plant, machinery and IT equipment… Read More
8 June 2020 The global motion controls market will fall by 7.5% this year, before starting to recover in 2021 and slowing down again in 2023, according to… Read More
8 June 2020 Members of the Gambica, the trade association which represents companies in the UK’s automation and instrumentation sectors, are now running their operations at about 75%… Read More
26 March 2020 The Automatica exhibition, which was due to take place in Munich in June, has been postponed until 8–11 December, at the same venue. The biennial… Read More
11 February 2020 Stäubli has developed a four-axis Scara robot which, it claims, is the first that can be used in food industry applications where there is a… Read More
5 February 2020 Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) have acquired a 50,000m2 site in Odense, Denmark, where – with the financial backing of their joint… 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 What is thought to be the UK’s most powerful industrial robot has been installed at Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry. The six-axis Fanuc M-2000iA/2300… Read More
3 January 2020 After several years of seemingly unstoppable growth, the global market for industrial robots went into decline during 2019, with revenues falling by an estimated 4.3%. Read More
