Category: Features & Interviews

Kashif Saeed, Engineering Manager at Tunstall Healthcare  What does your average day look like? The day normally starts with a team meeting which can be scheduled across the morning – we discuss priorities and anything important that’s been scheduled for that day. This can include preventive maintenance and development of test equipment and fixtures on […]

Technology-driven advances allow businesses to offer their customers greater service levels than ever before, but it can also mean there are also new obstacles and challenges to overcome. This is particularly true in the fast-paced world of palletised freight, where getting the right goods delivered to the right place at the right time can be […]

Food and beverage brands are under constant pressure to reduce waste and improve the recyclability of their product packaging. Today, many global brands have taken steps to switch packaging to easily recycled mono materials, remove colours and additives, and reduce the number of parts in a piece of packaging – all in a bid to […]

Ahead of International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June, Ovarro’s new technology leader for leakage solutions, Barbara Hathaway, discusses her career and gives words of advice for aspiring engineers What led you to engineering? My father was a physics teacher, who encouraged me and my two older brothers to consider how things worked. We […]

Keeping industry in motion with reliable and efficient power sources is a key requirement as is the increasing demand for improving energy efficiency across all manufacturing processes. Regenerative drive solutions are playing an important role in the quest for ‘Greener Energy’ alternatives and Drives, Motors and Control specialist YASKAWA have developed an impressive range of […]

Nobody likes wasting energy, but for businesses there are large financial and environmental drivers to reduce energy use, and since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the financial imperative to lower energy costs has come into sharper focus than ever. As with many things in life, the old adage that if you can’t measure something, you can’t […]

Installing outdated intralogistiics technologies will prevent micro-fulfilment centres from achieving the efficiency gains ecommerce retailers are looking for, says Xia Huiling, founder and chief executive of LiBiao Robotics Micro managing With online shoppers demanding more convenient and ever faster order fulfilment speeds, many online retailers are choosing to invest in micro-fulfilment centres (MFCs). MFCs are […]

Challenger brands in the automotive market are introducing innovation at every stage of the manufacturing process. From electric vehicle design to mega production plants, these businesses are achieving new levels of efficiency and automation, prompting the rest of the market to invest fast to keep up.  Within the supply chain, automated loading and unloading of […]

Do possible changes to stock profiles present a serious barrier to warehouse automation? Just how much should you care? By Dan Migliozzi, Head of Sales at Invar Group A concern voiced by many businesses looking to adopt warehouse automation is: what happens if stock profiles change? Commercial survival in a competitive market requires a company […]

Reducing downtime owing to machine faults and breakdowns is important for all industries, but with marine equipment typically being in a remote location, how do we react when problems occur? Predictive maintenance, where data analysis is used to detect potential defects before a mechanical failure occurs, is the way forward. Here, we take a deep […]