UK supply chains are to be strengthened thanks to £13m in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The lion’s share of the funding (£5m) has been awarded to Queen’s University Belfast to create ...

The UK government has announced the creation of a new Steel Council, comprised of sector leaders, industry experts, trade unions, trade associations and devolved governments, to help safeguard the ...

A precision engineering specialist has completed a £650,000 factory improvement drive to help it boost efficiency and create a new final inspection department. Technoset, which employs 27 people at ...

A UK manufacturer of commercial and industrial roller shutters is celebrating its 25th year in business. Rossendale-based RCS Doors, which was founded in 1999, is marking the milestone in its business ...

A UK-based manufacturer of turnkey 3D printing solutions has signed a new international deal that will see additive manufacturing used to make complex concrete moulds. Rapid Fusion, which designs and ...

Zebra Technologies has announced it intends to acquire Photoneo, a leading developer and manufacturer of 3D machine vision solutions. The 3D segment of the Machine Vision market is the fastest growing ...

The UK manufacturing sector hit an 11-month low in December, with output, employment and new orders all falling at faster rates, new figures released yesterday show. According to the latest seasonally ...

A senior leader at BAE Systems, who recently retired after four decades with the company, has been awarded an MBE for services to the defence industry and aviation in the King’s New Year Honours. Dave ...

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Kevin Ashton, father of IoT, talked at the event “Industry of Things” in Berlin on 18 September about the future of manufacturing.

Technological innovation is not limited to software and apps, and we are currently experiencing a massive wave of innovation in hardware. We’re seeing open source hardware platforms, cheaper hardware ...