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Toolmaker's transformation
Traditional toolmaking skills can be turned to cater to a wider product portfolio. Lodent Precision has just done just that. |
28/04/2008
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Continual innovation
Gildemeister Group machine tool sales company DMG's annual Open House held in Pfronten, Bavaria, Southern Germany in February came just a few months after the major EMO exhibition last year at which it unveiled a plethora of new developments. The Open House still had plenty of news to offer, however. |
25/04/2008
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Network delivers composites knowledge
Launched in 2004, the National Composites Network was the first KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) established by the Technology Strategy Board and forms part of the broader Materials KTN. Although the NCN is a company limited by guarantee with a management board consisting of senior representatives from key stakeholders, it is funded by government. The programme director at the organisation, which is based at the headquarters of TWI Ltd near Cambridge, is Ajay Kapadia, a man with extensive experience of composite materials, largely in the marine industry. |
22/04/2008
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Sense of direction
MACH exhibition organiser the Manufacturing Technologies Association appointed Graham Dewhurst as its director general last year. He has plans to boost the breadth of the Association membership and also deliver more value for its members. |
21/04/2008
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Filling the void
Progressive sub-contract machinist Unicut Precision is frustrated with the current lack of interest in the engineering sector by parents, school leavers, schools and colleges |
20/04/2008
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Mechanical advantage
As National Skills Academy for Manufacturing managing director Bob Gibbon regularly underlined during the interview with Machinery, with a staff of just 28 people and a universe of some 2 million to serve in terms of raising skill levels, efforts have to be focused. In delivering that focus, the new skills body, headquartered in Birmingham, is being scientific in its approach. |
18/04/2008
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Mould habits die hard
No one can question the impact that China has had on the mould and toolmaking sector over the course of the past decade. While the initial exodus signalled panic in the eyes of many, today the UK moulding industry remains in positive trading territory. |
04/04/2008
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Strength in aluminium
Mouldmaking is dead in the UK, right? Wrong! Dudley Associates has successfully built up a service offering around the fast delivery of high quality aluminium tooling. |
28/03/2008
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Machining formula
Highest precision in the production of reliable parts used at speed is the aim of those involved with the motorsport field. Machinery catches up with latest applications. |
25/03/2008
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Rapid technology change
Machinery went to visit a one-of-a-kind rapid prototyping/rapid manufacturing facility in the UK and heard how technology change is shaping its future direction more in favour of metal parts production. |
21/03/2008
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Flights of productivity
With the aerospace sector buzzing, upping capacity while also improving productivity is the order of the day for many active in the sector. |
03/03/2008
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Trends in UK manufacturing
Findlay Publications’ Trends In UK Manufacturing 1997-2007 allies figures to the UK’s recent experience, revealing the turmoil in its rear-view mirror, but signalling steadier times ahead. |
22/02/2008
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Footprint strategy
Manufacturing Footprint Strategy – making the right things in the right places – is not simply a glamorised version of outsourcing, offshoring, restructuring or of locating production in emerging markets, emphasises the report’s authors - Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge. It is a new approach to the design and configuration of manufacturing plants across the world; the goal is the achievement of a co-ordinated network of operations working collectively at their best, not a collection of plants operating individually at top notch. |
18/02/2008
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Manufacturing still core
Following the launch of its new strategy (see Machinery November 2006, page 16) and its positive progress (see Machinery, April 2007, page 58), 600 Group most recently successfully unveiled its new China-made/600 Group-designed Dalian machine tool range at EMO last September. But in November last year the Group turned the spotlight on its UK manufacturing activities, lest anybody thought this was being overshadowed by sales company developments and outsourced product initiatives. |
15/02/2008
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Renewed fortunes
Following the 2001 ‘9/11’ downturn and the failure of one of its largest Taiwanese suppliers, Yang; Hove, Sussex-headquartered C Dugard Machine Tools was hit hard. A renewed strategy, however, has seen the company’s fortunes return, and following a successful Open House last year, it enters 2008 “with a record order book worth over £7 million, even before further Open House enquiries are processed,” reports managing director Eric Dugard, who adds that the company has experienced an average 20 per cent year-on-year growth over recent years, with that looking set to continue. |
01/02/2008
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Astronomical accuracy
The largest lightweight beryllium optic that has ever been made that will form a central element in the James Webb infrared optimised Space Telescope (JWST), due for launch in June 2013 to study phases in the history of our universe, has been machined in the USA using a custom-built Mitsui Seiki horizontal machining centre.
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23/01/2008
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Tomorrow's materials today
Composites provides a number of manufacturing challenges for those more familiar with processing conventional metal or plastic components. Unfortunately, machining composites demands the application of specific manufacturing technology, and the Delcam-hosted seminar provided approximately 70 delegates with the opportunity to discover precisely what. |
21/01/2008
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Dissecting an industry
The future prosperity of the UK medical device industry seems assured. Despite difficulties accessing the domestic market and the persistent slowness of the NHS to adopt new products (which drives investment abroad), a recent survey indicates that sector growth continues to climb. |
18/01/2008
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Stellar precision
Bedfordshire’s Cranfield University, which since the 1960s has been able to boast a long line of R&D facilities, has unveiled the latest building that adds further to its Precision Engineering Centre. The Hexagon Loxham Precision Laboratory (named after chief sponsor Hexagon Metrology and eminent metrologist and engineer, the late Professor John Loxham, CBE) is intended to fulfil a number of commercial and research projects including, perhaps most notably, the manufacture of mirrors for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. |
11/01/2008
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Technology race
The UK motorsport sector employs 50,000 people, with more than 30,000 of these engaged in full-time engineering roles. There are about 4,000 UK businesses of various sizes involved in motorsport, including several Formula One teams, Formula One engine suppliers and World Rally Championship teams. This, of course, is only the tip of the iceberg. The UK also hosts many other types of motorsport, at both national and club level, including Rallycross, SuperMoto, Scrambling, Sportscars and GT championships, and many of these vehicles, along with various specialist components, are designed and manufactured in this country. |
01/01/2008
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Autosport Engineering 2008
Now in its 13th year, Autosport Engineering is a two-day, trade-only specialist area within Autosport International for technical suppliers to the motorsport industry. |
25/12/2007
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Technology meets history
Latest tube laser cutting machinery is helping to keep the costs of producing a UK motoring icon down and quality up. |
25/12/2007
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Hardinge - the next generation
Billed as the ‘next generation’ Open House, Hardinge recently opened its UK doors to visitors and revealed new branding and technology. |
21/12/2007
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Helping change along
Managed by Birmingham Chamber and funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Accelerate was set up some 10 years ago to help West Midlands automotive suppliers compete effectively in the world’s most demanding global industry. |
20/12/2007
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Showing continued initiative
I’ve been at Accelerate (www.accelerate.uk.net) now for over 10 years and during that time I’ve witnessed everything the automotive industry can throw at you, including major factory closures, exciting new model launches and the emergence of third world countries that are doing their best to muscle in on our territory. |
20/12/2007
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