A new study from the Capgemini Research Institute has found that smart factories could add at least $1.5 trillion to the global economy through productivity gains, improvements in quality and market share, along with customer services. However, two-thirds of this overall value is still to be (more...)

Flame Hardeners has become one of the first small companies in the contract heat treatment sector to appoint a designated mental health first aider. Commercial manager, Claire Casswell, who is already qualified to Level 3 in Counselling, has gained MHFA England’s Certificate following their (more...)

2019 is the international year of the periodic table, marking the 150th year of the table of elements. To mark this milestone, MK Profile Systems has been working closely with Warwick University to create a giant periodic table sized at 3.6x2.7x2m with its structure based on both the 25 and 40 (more...)

The US Air Force has accepted the first Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft, setting the stage for the aircraft’s delivery to McConnell Air Force Base, in Wichita, Kan, in the coming weeks. Central to the tanker’s operation are the fly-by-wire refuelling boom actuators supplied by Moog (more...)

A toothbrush manufacturer has used MK Profile Systems’ 40 series profile to create a protective device guard for its packaging area. The toothbrushes were already in their primary packaging, so there were no sanitary requirements but the protective guard is located in a typical cleanroom. (more...)

Global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, is supporting Bristol music venue, Colston Hall, run by the charity Bristol Music Trust. The company is naming a room in the new education suite that will be created in the venue’s unused Victorian cellars as part of the £48.8 million (more...)

As Britain prepares to negotiate fresh trade deals abroad, new global research from Barclays Corporate Banking reveals two fifths (39%) of international consumers would be more inclined to buy a product if it displayed the Union Jack. This was especially true for consumers in Asia and the Middle (more...)

ABB has won an order of around $130 million (£99 million) to build the power transmission infrastructure for EDF Energy’s new Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset. This will be the UK’s first new nuclear power plant to be built for a generation and will provide 7% of the (more...)

Interroll will display the world’s most powerful, stainless steel synchronous drum motor for belt conveyor systems, with a proven output of up to 1.1 kilowatts, a particularly high torque up to 100 Nm and extremely high belt tension. With this drive solution the food and pharmaceutical (more...)

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has chosen Moog as its prime supplier of test equipment and services for its Large Scale Test Facility. The test facility at DTU’s Riso Campus is purpose-built for static and dynamic tests of wind turbine blades. The facility will have three test (more...)