Workforce and skills

Crop-Jamey Ewing (l) and Barry Farmer (r) Hardide Coatings, Inc

Hardide opens new US production facility

A telepresence robot monitors an office environment. Image courtesy of Double Robotics

Telepresence robots set to transform workplaces

Electronics manufacturing at the Scharnhausen Technology Plant employs different testing methods to ensure superior quality.

Festo: automation for the future

As Veit phrased it, Industry 4.0 will “change work”, opposed to “killing work”, noting that jobs are likely to be safeguarded with employee skill-levels being raised.

Festo: Industry 4.0 and automation

The Stadler Altenrhein factory in Switzerland - image courtesy of Stadler

Stadler Rail begins first phase of US expansion and establishes Australian company

Robot Hand Shaking Human Hand

Robot casino dealers could produce a jackpot for Hong Kong gaming company

Antony Bourne, global manufacturing industry director, IFS.

Digitisation of manufacturing

Bilimoria was made a crossbench life peer in 2006, which affords him the opportunity to speak on the issues that concern him - image courtesy of Cobra Beer.

In conversation with Cobra Beer’s Lord Bilimoria

CAD

CAD is a lie: generative design to the rescue

New front brake disks and pads for a modern car - image courtesy of DFC,

German car parts maker Fritz Winter to build $193.7m Kentucky plant

Business Graph with arrow showing profits and gains

How to improve factory productivity – identify the problem