’Reshoring’ is a much-mentioned word in the manufacturing industry, especially amongst engineering component suppliers that took part in Ventilator Challenge UK. Andrew Allcock takes a look at the history of such talk ...

​The Nuclear AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) is part of the government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult alliance of seven leading manufacturing research centres backed by Innovate UK. It is using ...

​In this edition, recorded on Wednesday, 24 June 2020, Machinery talks to Simon Stowe, planning engineer at Unipart Powertrain, Coventry, West Midlands, which is part of Unipart Manufacturing.

​Dundee-based SP Elements, a division of SP Automation & Robotics, is Scotland’s sole distributor of Universal Robots’ cobots. SP Automation & Robotics has over 30 years’ experience in automation, but its new venture is ...

Banbury-based Plastic Parts Direct is a company of 17 years standing, although its personnel boast some 35 years’ experience in the injection moulding business. Earlier this year, this small company announced it had ...

Machinery has written about a number of online-focused subcontractors, individual firms with varying levels of ambition, as well as platforms that offer buyers access to a range of services and companies in one place, ...

Protective masks have been in short supply in these times of coronavirus. An innovative containerised production facility that enables businesses and healthcare organisations to produce their own masks to order could ...

​In this second episode of a four-part series sponsored by Universal Robots, Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Dr James Law, the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Robotics, one of the ...

​In this first episode of a four-part series, Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Mark Gray, UK sales manager for Universal Robots. They discuss the company’s history and technology; the UK industrial robot ...

At the beginning of March, life in the UK was still close to normal, albeit with heightened awareness of Covid-19’s threat and approach, plus a focus on hand-washing. But from Monday, 16 through into mid-April as peak ...

​Heller Machine Tools in Redditch is the British subsidiary of Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH. Both deliver their products globally. Andrew Allcock caught up with Matthias Meyer, managing director of the UK ...

​US-headquartered 3D-printing software and hardware developer VELO3D is to launch a new metal printer able to produce one-metre-tall parts later this year. The company says the new model will be the world’s tallest ...

​CNC Routing is stepping up to support the NHS and critical infrastructure projects with the help of Tamworth-based cutting tool specialists ITC.

Speaking to Machinery in March, 6K CEO Dr Aaron Bent explained 6K’s background, its offer and the target audience for the company's unique, zero-waste microwave-powered plasma-based additive manufacturing powder ...

After its first release in Japan back in 2017 FANUC’s Industry 4.0/Internet of Things (IoT) platform now seems ready to enter a new stage (or: new territories). After some delays to the original timeline, at EMO this ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-developing technology and one that Machinery is coming across more and more. Our EMO review feature last issue (p14) and this issue’s cover feature (p10) both reference it.