Engineering
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Mike Hawes SMMT Chief Executive Vehicle manufacturers are calling for urgent measures to bolster the UK’s competitiveness and drive consumer demand following release of figures showing that combined car and commercial vehicle production fell 11.6 in February. The UK’s manufacturing viability is at risk, they argue. Car output fell for the 12th month in a…
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Grid Dynamics recently announced the launch of IoT Control Tower, an advanced analytics solution designed to help manufacturers and equipment providers with continuously analysing IoT data streams from production facilities and field deployments and generate guidance for analysts and operators. The solution aims to reduce labour costs associated with manufacturing analytics, minimise issue response times,…
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Industry Minister Sarah Jones announced an investment in the South West leading German space company OHB, creating up to 50 specialist jobs in Bristol to work on satellites and exploration spacecraft. In a speech at the Farnborough International Space Show the minister welcomed the news as ‘a major win for the South West’s world-leading aerospace cluster’,…
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According to the overall value of the MHP Industry 4.0 barometer, the degree of digitisation in industry is increasing worldwide, although not as quickly as before. China and the USA are continuing to extend their lead over the DACH region. And in the German-speaking countries in particular, a shortage of skilled workers and legacy systems…
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The data centre industry is on the brink of rapid transformation, driven by emerging technologies that promise to reshape its future. To assess the current ability of the data centre industry to capitalise on the technologies that could transform it, Cadence’s latest report, drawing on insights from 400 IT, facility, and business leaders worldwide, reveals…
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Nokia recently launched MX Context, a new solution that leverages sensor fusion technology to deliver AI-powered contextual awareness for industrial enterprises. Integrated into the Nokia Edge Compute and AI platform for industrial sites, MX Context processes large amounts of data from different sources, providing real-time actionable insights and intelligent automation to enable operational excellence and…
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SYSGO, a European supplier of real-time operating systems (RTOS) has announced the official support of Intel’s 13th Gen Intel Core processor family functional safety-capable SoCs with its certified flagship PikeOS RTOS & Hypervisor. This collaboration emphasises the vlaue SYSGO and Intel bring to technologies for avionics, industrial automation, and IoT. SYSGO’s PikeOS is known for…
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Research from analysts MindMetre conducted among over 1,000 manufacturing companies worldwide has highlighted four top factors holding back the pace of digital transformation in industry. The research report ‘Driving Digital Dynamics’ says the four factors are: Management Understanding to assess the benefits, risks, return-on-investment and best-practice journeys for digital transformation; The data challenge to capture, manage and leverage digital…
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Industrial companies are unwittingly operating 30% blind due to critical gaps and errors in their technical documentation, according to ‘deeptech’ company Samp, developer of an AI-powered ‘Shared Reality’ solution for industrial sites. Samp says that on average, industrial facilities modify around 2% of their assets every year, but only 50% of changes are properly recorded…
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Midlands based battery manufacturing company Volklec has reached an exclusive license agreement with Asian battery supplier Far East Battery (FEB) that could lead to construction of a £1 billion ‘gigafactory’ to produce advanced lithium-ion batteries in the UK. In what is said to be a first-of-its-kind technology and knowledge transfer agreement, Volklec will manufacture advanced…
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