A major new scheme to help people and manufacturers embrace the digital revolution has been launched in the West Midlands, with the aim of protecting thousands of ‘at risk’ jobs from the impact of Covid-19.

​Made Smarter has launched an innovative, streamlined process to enable more SME manufacturers to speed up their digital transformation.

​Metlase, a specialist in tooling, intelligent fixturing and components, is launching a new range of ‘digital’ solutions that will connect manufacturing processes and enable easier, faster automation.

​CGTech UK has appointed its first apprentice as part of the UK Technical Support team.

Wesley Tonks recently joined the TTL team as business development manager.

​CGTech, the developer of VERICUT CNC simulation, verification and optimisation software, is offering new financing options to help manufacturing businesses get back up and running during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

​Sheet metal sector CAD/CAM/MES/ERP software and digital transformation specialist Lantek added 1,100 clients in the first half of the year, bringing the total to brings the total to 24,800 globally.

​Backed by an almost £10m public/private investment, an open access 5G industrial testbed development is to be led by the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC).

​With a wave of global trade show and exhibition postponements this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Renishaw has launched its own online virtual exhibition. Called ‘Virtual-Expo', the rationale behind this new ...

​German machine tool and laser specialist Trumpf has won the Hermes Award for its open location standard product, ‘Omlox’. The award ceremony took place on 14 July at the Hanover Messe Digital Days.

​Engineering Technology Group (ETG) has taken the opportunity during lockdown to review and restructure its business model to create a more efficient, streamlined and resilient one that will enhance service levels for ...

A collaborative digital technology project between Siemens and Hosokawa Micron Ltd (HML) has seen not only the latter connect its own factory equipment but also provide connected equipment to its customers that can ...

​HV Wooding Ltd has produced laser-cut heater plates for ventilator humidification chambers since 2004. But the arrival of Covid-19 has seen its customer, Intersurgical, increase the order substantially.

​Accelerating companies’ digital transformations, allowing them to achieve a 90% reduction in development time and cost, and as much as 90% faster time-to-value for the most critical high-value use cases is the promise ...

​FANUC UK is offering its Roboguide and CNC Guide simulation software programs as free trials until the end of September 2020 to help companies get production back up and running. Both programs give users the ability to ...

​A free evaluation licence of Alphacam CADCAM software has helped a company that couldn’t fully commission a machine it had installed, due to Coronavirus, successfully step up to produce PPE.