Engineering


  • Cassia partners with Augury on industrial IoT

    Cassia Networks recently announced a strategic partnership with Augury, targeted at transforming the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape. This collaboration brings together Cassia’s expertise in long-range Bluetooth connectivity with Augury’s AI-powered predictive maintenance technology, promising to elevate industrial condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. This partnership merges Cassia’s industrial-grade X-2000 Bluetooth gateway and IoT Access…


  • Embracing niche applications in Industrial IoT (IIoT)

    The IIoT is transforming industries by connecting machines and systems to enhance performance, improve safety and reliability, and optimise operations. However, implementing IIoT solutions across diverse and specialised applications presents both unique challenges and distinct advantages. Zeev Collin, CEO, Semitech further explores. Providing adaptable solutions for a wide range of scenarios within the IIoT landscape…


  • Mouser Electronics expands its industrial automation line card

    Mouser Electronics continues to expand its line card of industrial automation products from manufacturers and solution delivery partners, helping to pave the way for Industry 5.0 The transition to Industry 5.0 marks a significant evolution in the manufacturing sector, heralding a new era that goes beyond the automation and digitalisation of Industry 4.0 by integrating…


  • ONERugged opens smart factory in Shenzhen

    ONERugged has officially opened its smart factory in Shenzhen, China. The highly automated facility uses AI-powered technologies and Industry 4.0 principles to streamline production, improve product quality, and meet the global demand for durable tablets and laptops in extreme environments. The company’s smart factory is built on Industry 4.0 principles – a fully automated and…


  • Industrial Strategy Advisory Council holds first meeting

    Rachel Reeves ©House of Commons Names of the business leaders from across the UK being brought together to offer government independent advice and recommendations as it develops a new Industrial Strategy to support its growth mission have been announced.   Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds attended the…


  • The convergence of IT, OT, and IoT: talking to Richard Owen, Unisys

    IT, OT, and IoT technologies are increasingly converging in manufacturing environments, Richard Owen, Director of Collaboration Architecture, Seamless Collaboration, Digital Workplace Solutions at Unisys told IoT Insider in a recent conversation.  “We see people adopting more off the shelf consumer-based technology,” he explained. “Long gone are the control panels that are dedicated to one machine…


  • CrateDB and ABB collaborate on analysing IIoT data

    CrateDB and ABB have announced a collaboration where ABB’s industrial IoT and AI suite, Ability Genix, will leverage CrateDB for analysing and contextualising data from industrial operations to provide actionable insights to customers. As per reports which were not cited in the announcement, less than 20% of data generated by industrial companies is being used,…


  • Smart factories to make great strides in 2025, forecasts technology specialist

    Chris Iveson Fourjaw at OXO House Sheffield06 September 2023 All Images © Paul David Drabble All rights Reserved, www.pauldaviddrabble.co.uk Generative AI will unlock new value for mainstream manufacturers and tech-enhanced humans will increasingly be found on smart factory floors in 2025, predicts Chris Iveson, CEO of Four Jaw Manufacturing Analytics. He also predicts that Cloud…


  • Manufacturer fined £500,000 for maintenance health and safety failures

    The incident took place at Diageo’s Glenlossie Distillery Complex Drinks manufacturer Diageo has been fined £500,000 after pleading guilty to maintenance health and safety failures that led to an engineer employee sustaining burns to over 30% of his body. The mechanical engineer had been repairing a defective pump at Diageo’s Glenlossie Distillery Complex in Elgin…


  • Make UK-BDO survey paints gloomy picture of dipping manufacturer confidence

    Fhaheen Khan Senior Economist, Make UK Business confidence among Britain’s manufacturers has dipped at the sharpest rate since the onset of the pandemic in response to rising costs, according to Make UK and BDO’s Manufacturing Outlook Q4 2024 report.  The report says that the mood among companies has deteriorated considerably since the last survey in…