Manufacturing Technologies

A rendering of the Nikola One semi-truck. Image courtesy of Nikola Motor Company.

Nikola hybrid truck claims $2.3bn in reservations

L to R: Walter Burgstaller, sales director - Europe (B&R) and Tobias Daniel, head of sales & marketing (COMAU Robotics) presented openROBOTICS for the first time at SPS IPC Drives 2015.

COMAU and B&R assimilate robotics into machine control

The budding engineers will follow the almost 100 apprentices already taking part in the MTC’s advanced engineering training programme - image courtesy of The MTC

The MTC on the hunt for budding engineers

Innomech has designed and developed a new high speed automated product packaging system for SG Technologies – image courtesy of Innomech/Phil Mynott.

Automation helps SG Technologies double production

SentiMag is part of the Endomag sentinel lymph node detection system

Medical devices: at the sharp end

Industry 4.0 digitisation of manufacturing Technology

Confusion over Industry 4.0 shackling UK industry

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 DFC.

Delivering Industry 4.0: the hype and challenges

This new research reveals that innovation around big data isn’t a London-based phenomenon

Digital transformation: the currency of industry 4.0

The Spaceport will enable take-off and landing of reusable space vehicles, such as Skylon and Virgin Galactic.

National programme needed to boost UK spaceport

Precision scanning technology, normally used to solve high tech engineering problems, was able to reveal that archaeologists searching a shipwreck had found an extraordinarily rare silver coin - image courtesy of WMG.

Metrology: crimebusting has a new champion

Terry Scuoler, CEO, EEF

Can industry hack the fourth industrial revolution?