Manufacturing & Production Engineering Magazine

Big businesses in the UK and US are losing as much as $53 billion (£39 billion) each year to “financial leakage”. This represents a massive opportunity to reclaim lost profits. This is the key finding from Xelix – a leading agentic AI software for Finance teams – new report ‘Financial leakage: The $53bn opportunity for Accounts Payable teams’. These losses stem from duplicate invoices, invoicing errors, missed […]

In the aviation and energy sectors, turbine manufacturing companies rely on Starrag machines because they are among the most powerful and precise solutions the market has to offer. This applies not only to the manufacture of engine blades and blisks, but also to turbine housings. Decades of experience have gone into the wide range of […]

Smart Manufacturing Week (SMW) will return to the NEC in Birmingham this summer (3-4 June) where it will once again host the largest annual celebration of manufacturing and engineering in the UK. SMW brings together a powerful lineup of events, including Smart Factory Expo, Maintec, Drives & Controls and Design + Engineering Expo; as well […]

Staffordshire-based PJD Mechanical Engineering, part of engineering group and parent company, Ropsley Ltd, proudly announces the acquisition of the business and assets of Unit Engineers and Constructors Limited (UEC) from UnitBirwelco Limited. This strategic move takes the group’s turnover to beyond £50m, its direct employee headcount to more than 300, and will extend its offering into […]

Lantek, a leading international company specialising in software solutions for the sheet metal industry, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Machitech, a Canadian manufacturer specialising in high-performance laser, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems, to integrate Lantek software solutions into Machitech machines.   The partnership represents a further step in Lantek’s international growth strategy and […]

The Push-X product range is growing: With the new XT 1,5 terminal blocks, Phoenix Contact is extending the series to include versions for conductor cross-sections from 0.34 to 2.5 mm². Previously, the Push-X terminal blocks were available with a nominal cross-section of 2.5 mm², which could be used to connect conductors from 0.5 to 4 […]