At its plant in Hoechstadt, Germany, global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has put a machine tool into operation that demonstrates how Industry 4.0 actually works in practice. Plus, digital twins & ...

​Machinery has news of two first-in-the-UK commercial uses of combined additive/subtractive manufacturing machines; at injection moulder OGM and cable harness specialist Cable First. Andrew Allcock went to see these ...

​Supporting unattended and lights-out running, the EasyBox systems are designed to allow components to be clamped manually onto pallets, automatically loaded into store and subsequently retrieved for robotic transfer ...

​In a world-first, Starrag has designed, developed and fully integrated a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for the automated complete machining – incorporating combined milling and turning on Starrag machining ...

Heller Machine Tools has spent more than £2 million upgrading its Redditch manufacturing plant and headquarters. The administrative and applications engineering departments have benefitted from a comprehensive makeover, ...

​Doncasters has been using electroforming for more than 13 years, predominantly as erosion shields on rotor blades. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a breakthrough use, as Andrew Woods, business development ...

​It can be difficult to keep up with government education initiatives, both for mainstream and vocational routes. For the latter, most recently it’s been the move to compress some 13,000 vocational qualifications into ...

Nikon’s corporate vice president, Tadashi Nakayama, provides insight into the strategy of the firm’s Industrial Metrology Business Unit, of which he is deputy general manager, in particular, Quality 4.0, where digital, ...

Ian Woodward, director of group UK sales at Filtermist, discusses how the desires and demands of the younger generations differ greatly from their older peers and outlines actions manufacturing and engineering ...

Last month (October 2018), the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing’s flagship robotics and automation facility, Factory 2050, was officially opened, with Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry MP ...

​A global automotive group that has 24 manufacturing plants and 13,500 employees is connecting equipment within its plants globally. Andrew Allcock reports, explaining the end game of predictable quality levels and ...

​An initiative of JCB’s Lord Anthony Bamford, The JCB Academy has been supported in metrology terms by Mitutoyo

Courtesy of Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II series, this year will surely be remembered as the tipping point for global plastic pollution. Bubbling under is another environmental issue of resource depletion or ...

Citizen Machinery’s Low Frequency Vibration (LFV) swarf control technology, although popular, is still widely misunderstood. Andrew Allcock spoke to Citizen Machinery UK’s deputy managing director, Darren Wilkins, at ...

As Formnext opens its door, a plethora of additive manufacturing news has been released this week, including updates from GE Additive-owned Concept Laser (powder-bed technology), HP (plastics & metal binder jet ...

GE is a major additive manufacturing (AM) user and technology supplier, and is set to be a major force in expanding AM use. Here Machinery charts its story in brief, highlighting key developments. GE is a key player in ...