Automation

London Night Tower Bridge Thames UK Export Excellence Awards Stock - iamge courtesy of Pixabay

Leadership & Strategy

UK Export Excellence Awards 2017: shortlist revealed

Harriet Green, general manager of Watson IoT, Customer Engagement and Education for IBM, and Guido Jouret, chief digital officer of ABB.

Digital Transformation

ABB & IBM join forces to drive industrial artificial intelligence

AI
IoT

Robotics - The US automotive industry installed 17,500 robots in 2016, with the number of jobs in the sector rising by 260,600 during the same period – image courtesy of IFR.

Skills

Education key to reap benefits of robotics

Autonomous Vehicle - The Pod Zero is being showcased for the first time - image courtesy of RDM - Autonomous Vehicles

Innovation

UK innovation to drive autonomous vehicles in the US

Bionic Robot - The movements of the BionicCobot can be finely regulated to be either powerful and dynamic, or delicate and yielding - image courtesy of Festo.

Robotics & Automation

New bionic robot concepts inspired by nature

One of the areas AI-equipped automation controllers can help improve is predictive maintenance, vital in raising productivity – image courtesy of Omron Corporation.

Digital Transformation

Omron to release ground-breaking AI-equipped controller

IoT

Thames Card Technology now produces an average 250 million cards annually.

Robotics & Automation

Thames Card Technology reveals £2m machinery Investment

Innovation

Tata Innovation Showcase

- image courtesy of Applied Component Technology (ACT).

Leadership & Strategy

Manufacturers asked to help highlight current trends

Nearly a quarter (23%) of levy-paying firms have no understanding of the Apprenticeship Levy or don’t know how their company will respond to it.

Finance

The Apprenticeship Levy: it can work for everyone

The Manufacturer Smart Factory Expo 2016 - image courtesy of The Manufacturer

Smart Factory

Smart Factory Expo 2017: bigger, bolder, better