Manufacturing Technologies

Manufacturing the connected enterprise

The Audi plant in Ingolstadt celebrates topping out of new paint shop A new topcoat paint line is being built in the north of the plant site - image courtesy of Audi.

Audi celebrates ‘topping out’ of new A4 paint shop

A 7nm test chip developed by IBM. Image courtesy of IBM Research.

IBM reveals breakthrough computer chip technology

The Blade weighs just 1,400lbs (635kg) and is powered by a 700hp 2.4 litre bi-fuel engine - image courtesy of Divergent Microfactories.

Enter the Blade: 3D printed ‘green’ supercar does 0-60MPH in 2.2 secs

Industrial Internet of Things

IoT: What do manufacturers have to consider?

businessman hand use smart phone computer as concept

IoT System provides foundation for Transformation of Industries

Volkswagen Hood Badge

Media sensationalises VW worker killed in robot accident

From two-way radios to smartphones, laptops to landlines, tablets to rugged handhelds no one is beyond reach in today's smart factory - image courtesy of Motorola.

Smart manufacturers need to talk

The expertise which built Honda's Asimo robot will be used for the new Robot Revolution Initiative. Image courtesy of Honda.

Japan launches countrywide ‘Robot Revolution’

MIT researchers manufacturing their new semisolid batteries. Image courtesy of MIT.

MIT develops process for manufacturing cheap, bendable batteries

Talga staff and local government agencies inspecting a potential graphene demonstration plant site in Germany

Csiro findings boost Talga’s Swedish graphene project