Engineering
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Joe Llewellyn, General Manager of Cloud ERP at the UK’s Access Group, the parent company of Unleashed UK industrial manufacturers are riding high on a wave of newfound confidence, figures from a Manufacturing Health Index survey from software provider Unleashed suggest. A report from the UK owned inventory management software specialist shows an uplift in…
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The state of industrial workplace safety in the UK continues to evolve, with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics showing significant progress yet highlighting ongoing challenges. Despite improvements, industrial accidents still impact thousands of workers annually, resulting in both personal tragedy and substantial business costs. Work-related injuries and illnesses affect not only individual workers but…
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Advantech is happy to announce its collaboration with ADATA Technology to successfully develop an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) system. Using the NVIDIA Nova Orin reference platform, the AMR system integrates both Advantech and ADATA’s solutions, allowing developers to manage the upper-level AI system and lower-level wheelbase system seamlessly. The integration subsequently shortens AMR development and…
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Advantech is proud to announce the release of the MIC-732-AO and MIC-732D-AO, solutions that together, form an all-in-one autonomous mobile robot (AMR) AI system and developer kit, with NVIDIA Nova Orin. According to estimates provided by ABI Research, AMRs are expected to have a significant impact on the logistics market across various industries. By 2030,…
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MaxLinear has introduced three new quad RS-485 serial receivers, designed to ensure reliable communications in harsh industrial environments. The new quad RS-485 receivers offer 12 product variations with two speed options, 10Mbps and 33Mbps, in two package variants. Building upon the company’s broad, half-duplex RS-485 transceiver portfolio, the new solutions adds quad receive capability with…
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Jenny Shern, General Manager of NexCOBOT, a subsidiary of NEXCOM Group, spoke to IoT Insider about AI being the “next trend”, the growth of mobile robots and functional safety, and offering modularisation in robotics, sharing insights into the pain points and challenges facing the robotics industry. Trends in robots Observing trends in robots – notably,…
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Aled Gore and Morgan Leyshon, winners of the 2024 WorldSkills UK Industrial Robotics competition, held in conjunction with industry partners FANUC UK Two students from Bridgend College in Wales have won Gold awards in this year’s Industrial Robotics WorldSkills UK competition, held in conjunction with factory automation specialists FANUC UK. Morgan Leyshon and Aled Gore,…
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Nyna Gryf, Digitalisation Lead at Make UK Britain’s manufacturers will increase investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the next twelve months, according to a Make UK report. But despite increased adoption of AI, a survey showed that only 16% of companies claim to be knowledgeable about AI’s potential uses, and the lack of understanding and…
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The Hydrogen Electric Propulsion Systems (HEPS) assembly testbed at AMRC Cymru AMRC Cymru is celebrating its fifth anniversary, having become a ‘national asset’ since being given a mission to supercharge Welsh manufacturing by using advanced technologies and world-leading research to deliver improvements and innovation. Since opening on November 28 in 2019, the North Wales research…
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Kaspersky’s depictions of the industrial sector A survey of 406 UK-based respondents conducted by cybersecurity company Kaspersky reveals that some 90% of industrial companies were hit by at least one cybersecurity incident in the past year and many suffered repeated breaches. Kaspersky says this highlights the cybersecurity challenges confronting the industrial sector. The survey was…
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