Engineering
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Enedis renews deal with ABB to eliminate MV switchgear SF6. The agreement extends a long-running collaboration focused on decarbonising France’s medium-voltage infrastructure and improving grid resilience under growing electrification demand.
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Derby-based Monarch Security has launched an SIA-accredited training centre. The company, founded in 2020, will deliver Highfield-approved qualifications backed by real operational experience — creating new career pathways and raising professional standards across the UK security industry.
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Electro Mechanical Systems returns with advanced motion solutions. EMS will showcase FAULHABER’s latest DC motors and gearheads at Machine Building Live in Coventry. These innovations promise enhanced power and efficiency for compact, high-performance applications. Visit stand 208 to discuss technical support and project solutions with EMS experts.
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AkzoNobel has launched the industry’s first not-for-profit partnership. The IONOMY ecosystem will help coil coaters navigate the complex transition to renewable energy curing, uniting technology leaders to make low-energy curing commercially viable and operationally achievable.
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Industrial safety progress is stalling unevenly across UK sectors. Fatality data now reveals a widening gap between industries that have embedded data-driven, preventative safety cultures and those still reliant on reactive compliance. The difference, experts say, is no longer about technology — it’s about leadership, trust and accountability.
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Industrial sites are facing unseen electrical risks across operations worldwide. Schneider Electric’s latest Industry Insight Report finds that outdated equipment, poor maintenance, and missing compliance checks are quietly undermining resilience and safety.
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SBM Offshore and Cognite are scaling AI collaboration. The companies will deploy Cognite’s industrial AI platform across SBM’s Brazilian FPSO fleet, standardising data and accelerating digital transformation. The expansion builds on 18 months of groundwork to unify asset lifecycle datasets and embed AI into floating production operations.
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SECO has launched six new AI edge applications. Designed for industrial safety, voice security, and human–machine interaction, the tools cover use cases from speaker verification to predictive maintenance for tunnelling.
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UK manufacturing faces a structural skills crisis undermining competitiveness. A 42% collapse in apprenticeships and delayed government reforms risk leaving companies unable to meet net zero deadlines or adopt critical industrial technologies.
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Walmart is deploying millions of ambient internet-of-things (IoT) sensors across its US supply chain in partnership with Wiliot, in what the companies claim is the retail industry’s first large-scale rollout of the technology. The collaboration will see Wiliot’s battery-free “IoT Pixels” attached to Walmart pallets, feeding data into the retailer’s artificial intelligence systems to improve…
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