Impending Brexit will ‘disrupt’ UK manufacturing sector
29 June 2020 Brtian’s departure from the European Union – Brexit – will have significant adverse effects on the UK manufacturing sector and on the wider economy, according… Read More
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UK manufacturers call for stimulus package to save jobs
18 June 2020 Britain’s manufacturers are calling for a national recovery plan, including an immediate stimulus package, to boost investment and help save jobs, on the back of… Read More
UK manufacturers call for equipment scrappage scheme
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
Manufacturers welcome PM’s back-to-work message
11 May 2020 Make UK, the body that represents UK manufacturers, has “cautiously” welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that the government wants manufacturers which stopped production during… Read More
UK manufacturers propose three-point plan for recovery
11 May 2020 The British manufacturers’ body, Make UK, has published a three-point plan calling on the Government to give manufacturers time to scale up their operations and… Read More
Just 16% of UK’s SME manufacturers are using robots
6 January 2020 Just 16% of the UK’s SME (small and medium enterprise) manufacturers are using robots, with another 13% saying they are planning to start using them,… Read More
Edge appliance targets car-makers and their suppliers
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
Smart factories could boost global economy by $2.2 trillion
25 November 2019 A new study from the Capgemini Research Institute has found that smart factories could add $1.5–2.2 trillion to the global economy by 2023 through productivity… Read More
Deep learning vision camera runs on-board neural networks
21 October 2019 Flir Systems has developed what it describes as “the industry’s first deep-learning, inference-enabled machine vision camera with Flir Neuro technology”. The Firefly DL camera combines… Read More
Universal Robots unveils its most powerful cobot
18 October 2019 Universal Robots has announced its most power cobot (collaborative robot) to date – a machine with a payload of 16kg, that has a reach of… Read More
