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Engineering orders soar at the start of 2012

There was a big increase in the number of firms reporting orders up in January according to the Engineering and Machinery Alliance business monitor. The Engineering and Machinery Alliance (EAMA), which is an umbrella organisation ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 2:54pm by Tom Moore View Article

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Bank transactions via mobile phone could soon be as easy as texting

A scheme to make sending cash via mobile phone as easy as texting will be in place this year, the UK Council has announced. Customers who register for the service will have their mobile numbers ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 2:52pm by Tim Brown View Article

Vince Cable set to host Manufacturing Summit

The government will join top manufacturers tomorrow to celebrate the best of British manufacturing and explore ways the sector can support growth for the UK economy. The Manufacturing Summit will be hosted by Business Secretary ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 1:30pm by Tom Moore View Article

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Silos Changing: Cambashi explores emerging technologies now transforming purchasing

Mike Evans discusses enterprise application deployments that make it simpler to buy products. Business to Business (B2B) Internet commerce is booming. It often has two phases. In the first phase, the designer of a product ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 11:57am by Jane Gray View Article

Potential problem found on Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Boeing has revealed today that around 55 of its flagship 787 Dreamliners “have the potential” to develop a fuselage shimming problem, but reiterated that the fault was being fixed. Shims are used to fill in space ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 9:24am by Tim Brown View Article

In his 2010 budget, Chancellor George Osborne outlined the need for considerable cuts across the public sector

CBI and Fox urge Chancellor to issue tax and labour law reforms in Budget

The CBI today called on the Chancellor to use his March 21 Budget to make changes to the UK tax system and give a £500m boost to business through a series of “targeted and modest” tax ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 8:55am by Tim Brown View Article

Management Lecture to feature Boeing UK president Sir Roger Bone

Sir Roger Bone, UK president of aerospace company Boeing, will be speaking at the annual Sheffield Management Lecture, which this year will also launch the city’s Global Manufacturing Festival. During this free management lecture, which ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 3:16pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

Triumph Motorcycles selects PLM offering from PTC to roll out further growth

PTC today announced that Triumph Motorcycles, the largest British motorcycle manufacturer, has selected Windchill as its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. According to PTC, the use of Windchill will enable Triumph to better support business growth and product ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 2:30pm by Tim Brown View Article

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Minister and EEF chief economist added to Global Manufacturing Festival bill

Jeremy Browne MP, minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is the latest guest speaker to be announced for the Global Manufacturing Festival. He will speak to more than 400 delegates at the ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 2:09pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

China is taking a relatively relaxed attitude towards nuclear power after The Japanese Tsnuami

Supplier Days to help manufacturers grow in nuclear market

A series of Supplier Days, where local manufacturers can discuss their products with key buyers from the burgeoning nuclear energy sector, are being planned for the Nuclear AMRC, which is set to be opened at ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 1:55pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

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Articles

Engineering orders soar at the start of 2012

Bank transactions via mobile phone could soon be as easy as texting

Vince Cable set to host Manufacturing Summit

Silos Changing: Cambashi explores emerging technologies now transforming purchasing

Potential problem found on Boeing 787 Dreamliner

CBI and Fox urge Chancellor to issue tax and labour law reforms in Budget

Management Lecture to feature Boeing UK president Sir Roger Bone

Triumph Motorcycles selects PLM offering from PTC to roll out further growth

Minister and EEF chief economist added to Global Manufacturing Festival bill

Supplier Days to help manufacturers grow in nuclear market

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