Frazer Watson, VP-Sales UK/Ireland at Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) designer and manufacturer iFollow, explains how mobile robots offer agile organisations the flexibility required to come through unpredictable times with an advantage over the competition. We have entered a new era of intralogistics, one were flexibility is paramount, giving companies the agility they need to deal […]
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Lucy Yelland and Ben Love in UK final aiming for place at international ‘skills olympics’ Two Siemens engineering apprentices are going for gold in an international skills competition. Lucy Yelland, 20, and Ben Love, 19, are taking part in the National Finals of the 2022 WorldSkills UK competition. The pair, who are in the second […]
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Based just outside Dundee, Quest Precision Engineering Ltd has been on a trajectory of continuous growth. The Scottish manufacturer initially acquired two Nakamura-Tome turning centres through the pandemic and it has just added another two of the industry-leading turning centres to the plant list. Now with four Nakamura-Tome WT150II turning centres from Engineering Technology Group’s […]
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Parfetts, an employee-owned cash and carry wholesaler, has upgraded the material handling equipment across its seven depots with the introduction of new reach trucks, counterbalance trucks and powered pallet trucks from the Toyota range. Covering the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, the North East and North West, Parfetts offer over 9,000 product lines. While […]
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Flexitricity will provide market access to National Grid’s new winter Demand Flexibility Service (DFS). Businesses will be able to offset costs by reducing their energy consumption during high-stress periods such as the evening peak, and the morning pick-up when electricity consumption rises quickly. The new service is targeted at both domestic and industrial and commercial […]
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A Hertfordshire manufacturer that supplies its labelling solutions to companies such as ABB, London Underground, Mitsubishi, Network Rail and Vodafone is looking to expand after tapping into expert support. Silver Fox Ltd has continued to invest in new plant and machinery throughout Covid-19 and, when combined with specialist external assistance, this has helped it grow […]
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There are some things that are obvious in business; for instance, maximising profit by reducing costs and increasing sales. Is rightshoring an example of this, or is it a concept that requires a pioneer? Neil Ballinger, head of EMEA at global automation parts supplier EU Automation explains all. As well as obvious ideas, there are […]
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Celebration event brings colleagues and the local community together Sulzer Pumpen (Deutschland) GmbH has marked its 150th anniversary by holding a celebration at its pump factory in Bruchsal. Gathering local dignitaries and colleagues, the event showcased the rich history of the company and its goals for the future. The facility in Bruchsal is world-renowned for […]
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Two brand new multimillion-pound facilities will be launched at a Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD) showcase on Tuesday 25th October, supporting the UK’s manufacturing sector on the road to net zero. WMG and the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick are combining their expertise to host the ‘Powering Electrification Seminar Series’. New […]
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Jim Witherspoon, Product Manager, Machine Vision, Zebra Technologies The interest, innovation, and buzz around various types of artificial intelligence (AI) — machine learning, neural networks, and computer vision (CV) is well recognised. What is less recognised is the renewed interest and application of modern machine vision (MV) systems by warehousing operators and manufacturers. MV and […]
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