Telford-based electronics company Wrekin Circuits is investing in new machinery to expand its production capabilities, with funds made available through the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) and HSBC.
A small British manufacturer is, literally, at the leading edge of metalforming technology, finds Malcolm Wheatley.
Local companies are being offered a free ticket to the Global Manufacturing Festival if they bring a business from outside the Sheffield City region to the popular event.
Businesses that purchase a ticket for the convention and trade show at Sheffield City Hall on March 22 will be able to take a partn…
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has called for proposals in three critical research areas focusing on innovative production processes.
The agency has identified reconfigurable assembly systems, self-adaptive equipment, and automation and mechanisation as fundam…
The University of Birmingham has announced that it will be part of the Easy Access Innovation Partnership, which promotes new ways of transferring intellectual property (IP) to industry.
Traditionally, the link between industry and higher education has been poor – with intellectual property o…
Scientists at the CERN lab near Geneva, who last year claimed they had recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the speed of light (186,282 miles / 299,792 km per second), have now admitted it was a faulty reading due to a bad wire.
A source close to the experiment recently to…
Oxford-based producer of biotechnological sensors Oxford Nanopore announced it has successfully produced a sensor similar in size to a USB memory stick, able to decode DNA in a matter of hours.
The company yesterday presented DNA sequence data using its Nanopore ‘strand sequencing̵…
As the Davos intelligentsia chews over the value of pure capitalism, the UK should bury its pride about government intervention and reconsider picking winners.
European stagnation has planted UK politics in a particularly prickly conflict, pitting Tory-led austerity measures squarely again…
On March 8, participants at a free Manufacturing Innovation Forum will hear where some of 2012’s biggest opportunities lie. Save the date, and book a place.
In early March, a community of like-minded manufacturing executives will gather at Hellidon Lakes in The Midlands in order to share best prac…
Do-it-yourself modular robotics are slashing the cost of automation, finds Malcolm Wheatley.
Robots in manufacturing are hardly new. First gaining a toehold in the late 1970s and early 1980s, today such names as Kuka, Hitachi, ABB, and Unimation are a familiar sight in manufacturers within the a…
