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.

Andrew Allcock reviews current progress on sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Less sexy than the topic of electric aircraft (p9), it is, however, technically the nearer term solution for cleaner air travel

While electric cars are today a reality, albeit we will see many further strides yet in the development of that technology, the aerospace industry has a larger challenge and is still early into its journey. Andrew ...

Andrew Allcock details yet another additive manufacturing process, one that supports both metal and plastic 3D printing. It uses standard metal powder and plastic granules, using the same material for both prototypes ...

Bowman Additive, part of Bowman International, is adding value to the group’s core business of bearing design and supply, innovating via plastic additive manufacturing and replacing what is traditionally a pressed metal ...

It’s all very well there being powerful digital tools available, but people have to know how to use them, often breaking with well-entrenched traditional approaches. Autodesk’s Digital Catalyst programme aims to ...

Previewed at the MACH 2018 exhibition, developing XYZ Machine Tools' Robo-Tend vertical machining centre/lathe automation solution has, it is admitted, been a more challenging task than initially thought. Now available, ...

​For two days in July, Autodesk hosted a London-based edition of Autodesk University.It provided a push to its cloud-hosted design-to-production collaborative software, Fusion 360, which it also expanded; saw its cloud- ...

​Autodesk is a $2.6bn software business that has for a few years been talking about the convergence of design and manufacturing. Rather than separate processes, this sees the two as a single continuous effort. It takes ...

While there are many individual CADCAM brands on the market, behind them are often some of the same software components. Same too for CNC systems. Two companies, the UK’s MachineWorks and Germany’s ModuleWorks, are ...