Transportation

There is a high potential for opportunity in the developing lightweight structures sector in Greater Manchester - image courtesy of UK Department for International Trade

Innovation

Global lightweight manufacturing hub forming in Greater Manchester

Innovation

Siemens to invest £27m in new UK 3D printing factory

Smart factories are set to improve productivity and labor cost hugely over the next 5 years - image courtesy of APS

Smart Factory

Smart factories set to contribute up to £1.13 trillion to the global economy

The new joint venture will include France's high speed TGV trains. Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Siemens and Alstom to unite rail manufacturing

Daimler has revealed on of the first ever fully electric light trucks. Image courtesy of Daimler.

Digital Transformation

Daimler reveals first electric truck

The Christophe de Margerie can break through thick ice without assistance. Image courtesy of Sovcomflot.

First tanker ship makes it through Arctic route alone

Electric vehicles are fast becoming a mainstream option for drivers and solve many of the challenges facing our cities. - image courtesy of Pixabay

Finance

UK to establish itself as world leader in battery technology

CAF said that it hopes in the near future to be making rolling stock for the South Wales Metro - image courtesy of CAF

Leadership & Strategy

Spanish train maker creates 300 jobs in Wales

How bees see colour. A macro view of the head of a bee showing its compound eyes and its three ocelli on the top of its head - stock image courtesy of APS.

Innovation

Bees’ colour perception may deliver evolutionary jump in camera and sensor technology

Intel will make use of Mobileye's autonomous vehicle technology. Image courtesy of Intel.

Digital Transformation

Autonomous vehicles to create $7tn passenger economy

IoT

A digital twins is a computerised versions of a physical asset, data from sensors in the real world can be inputted in to the twin to create simulations - image courtesy of APS

Digital Transformation

What is a digital twin?

IoT