India’s $4 phone: a manufacturing miracle?
Posted on 22 Feb 2016 by Michael Cruickshank
An Indian phone company has drawn headlines recently with an announcement that it will sell a smartphone at an unprecedentedly low price.
Electronics
Lenovo reveals an ace in its deck with multimode mobile workstation at SWW16
Posted on 18 Feb 2016 by Tim Brown
It has been a long wait for notebooks to provide the workstation computing power and graphics capabilities needed by engineering firms to run design programs and other power hungry software systems. Tim Cook’s letter to Apple customers regarding encryption
Posted on 18 Feb 2016 by Tim Brown
On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, which consisted of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing. Collaborative project to enhance Scotland’s global sensors capability
Posted on 17 Feb 2016 by Jonny Williamson
An innovative new R&D project is to place Scotland at the forefront of the £7 billion global sensors and imaging systems market, deliver significant economic growth and onshore 41 highly skilled research and manufacturing jobs from Asia. The BAE Systems Terrier tank is the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of combat vehicles
Posted on 16 Feb 2016 by Aiden Burgess
The British Army has unveiled its reworked BAE Systems’ Terrier tank – a combat vehicle described as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of combat vehicles due to its multitude of tools and functions. China’s Haier Group to acquire GE appliance unit for $5.4bn
Posted on 15 Feb 2016 by Aiden Burgess
Haier Group has agreed to buy the General Electric (GE) appliances business for $5.4bn in a deal which would be one of the largest acquisitions by a Chinese company of a US firm, and the largest by an overseas electronics business. ACE in the hole for precision component specialist
Posted on 11 Feb 2016 by Jonny Williamson
Investment in new processes and the latest machinery is reaping dividends for Shropshire manufacturer, Advanced Chemical Etching, resulting in a 20% rise in sales. SOLIDWORKS World 2016: Taking it all in
Posted on 4 Feb 2016 by Tim Brown
SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 (SWW16) - Day 1:
The call for General Session doors to open at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center in Dallas came just after 8:00am. Seconds later, spurred on by the thunderous sounds of AC/DC, the world’s best engineers quite literally sprinted (see circa the 28 second mark in the top video) through Hall D to claim their seats at one of the biggest shows in design technology. Simple ways to reduce electricity costs in a modern business
Posted on 1 Feb 2016 by The Manufacturer
Electricity is one of the biggest expenses in many modern businesses. More different types of equipment use electricity than ever before. Nissan invest £26.5m in North East manufacturing
Posted on 22 Jan 2016 by Fred Tongue
Nissan has announced it will produce batteries at the firms Sunderland plant.