With the electric vehicle sector ramping up production worldwide, the motors and gearboxes in electric vehicles place an entirely new set of demands on the manufacturing supply chain. It is here that the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) steps up to… Continue Reading →

Cutlasercut is a design manufacturer that specialises in fast turnaround production services in a number of sectors; including creative (art, fashion, jewelery, architecture), engineering, retail and signmaking, to name a few! Initially set up as a laser cutting business in… Continue Reading →

Group Rhodes, one of the UK’s largest original equipment manufacturers, has been granted patents in Europe and China for its industry leading Superplastic Forming (SPF) and Diffusion Bonding (DB) technology. This technology, which is used in the production of large,… Continue Reading →

The Heart of the South West LEP has announced £144,500 to support high-value engineering Factory of the Future digitisation for SMEs. The funding will allow the iAero Centre at Yeovil to install an Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Factory+ Demonstrator… Continue Reading →

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of DN Solutions’ and Zayer machine tools in the UK and Ireland, and a leading supplier of advanced automation systems to component manufacturers, has had a great 2023. The company, celebrating its 50th anniversary this… Continue Reading →

The igus ReBeL cobot now has a humanoid hand made of lubrication-free, high-performance plastics Robots are increasingly finding their way into small and medium-sized companies, especially as collaborative robots or “cobots”, such as the igus ReBeL. These robots sort, pick… Continue Reading →

After the huge success of the Automation UK show in June 2023, it will return in 2024 bigger and better, whilst continuing to showcase the latest cutting-edge innovations in robotics and systems. The 2024 Automation UK show will once again… Continue Reading →

The winners of the 2023 WorldSkills UK Industrial Robotics competition, held in conjunction with FANUC UK, have been announced at an awards ceremony in Manchester. Representing the best of the UK’s rising robotics talent, Hannah Currie and Peter O’Neill from… Continue Reading →

It is only within the last five years that Nuneaton-based subcontractor Oaston Engineering, which specialises in work for the aerospace and biotechnology industries, has embraced sliding-head turning, although it has used numerous fixed-head lathes since the company was formed in… Continue Reading →

In keeping with the Christmas season and its traditions, OPEN MIND has made an exact replica of a famous nutcracker from the Erzgebirge, a region in East Germany. Milled from aluminium, the example demonstrates an end-to-end digital process chain and… Continue Reading →