UK-Irish trade relations are to the fore of this year’s Manufacturing Solutions Ireland event, as the manufacturing supply chain roadshow and conference, hosted by GTMA and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), has already confirmed more than 100 exhibitors and participants… Continue Reading →

A Birmingham metal stamping company is taking on the worlds press-workers and winning after announcing a £1.5m export boost. Brandauer, which employs 67 people at its state-of-the-art facility in the city, has secured new orders to supply customers in the… Continue Reading →

Loadpoint Micro-Machining Solutions, a manufacturer in Cricklade that more than 40 years ago invented the industry standard saw for dicing semiconductor wafers, avoiding current leakage in electronic components caused by the old method of scribing and snapping wafers, has brought… Continue Reading →

Mills CNC Automation, a division of Mills CNC, is showcasing advanced, high-performance collaborative robot technology from Doosan Robotics on its stand at Automechanika 2019 (Stand G95). The cobots being exhibited – M1509 and M0617 – will be performing different pick… Continue Reading →

The focus on effective and efficient post-processing technologies for additively manufactured production parts has become a dominant focus in the additive manufacturing (AM) space. For many applications, the cost and time implications of post-processing are often prohibitive, usually requiring considerable… Continue Reading →

euspen (the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology), is in the process of finalising the organization of a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on advanced precision in additive manufacturing (AM) 16-18 September 2019. The SIG will this year be… Continue Reading →

UK engineering and manufacturing businesses are pushing forward incremental increases in process and production, but suffering a stagnation of programmes to implement new products, according to the annual innovation barometer from Subcon, the UK’s premier subcontract manufacturing supply chain show… Continue Reading →

Tapping is one of the most demanding and problematic machining applications. Threads are usually made in the last stage of the manufacturing process and therefore, it is the operator’s job to make sure the process is secure and finished correctly…. Continue Reading →