All Industry 4.0
Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache
Added: 26 Feb 2024
The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…
Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…
Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
Added: 24 Jan 2024
New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…
Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment
Added: 24 Jan 2024
Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…
Catch up on the science that impacts the process factory floor…
Added: 19 Jan 2024
Lab Horizons, our new sister site and publication, is at the cutting edge of science and industry, …
Trust for engineers nearly on a par with healthworkers
Added: 20 Dec 2023
A massive 85% of people surveyed say they trust engineers to tell the truth, says the latest Ipsos …
Agreement seals work on advanced materials innovation centre
Added: 20 Dec 2023
Global giant Tata Steel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK’s national centr…
Doomsday alert: engineers are here to stay
Added: 29 Nov 2023
New technology has been replacing manual labour for millennia but even AI’s not going to be sidelin…
Industry applauds Autumn Statement support but seeks coherent plan
Added: 28 Nov 2023
Manufacturing and process industry chiefs have welcomed in principle the commitments made by Chance…
HSE issues stern warning against falsifying NDT records
Added: 15 Nov 2023
The Health & Safety Executive has issued a warning against attempting to falsify records for non-de…
Element makes a bid for dominant role in European clean energy market
Added: 15 Nov 2023
Global testing, inspection, and certification services company Element Materials Technology signall…
Manufacturing’s big guns urge pre-Election stand on industry future
Added: 15 Nov 2023
Leaders of the UK’s five most dominant manufacturing sectors are demanding UK political parties ple…
NMITE relaunches 30 bursary offer for engineering students in local region
Added: 15 Nov 2023
The New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering is offering up to 30 non-means tested cash bur…
King Charles Presents 2022 and 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Engineering
Added: 13 Oct 2023
King Charles III has presented the 2022 and 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Engineering (QEPrize) r…
Poll reveals shift in public attitudes towards manufacturing careers
Added: 13 Oct 2023
A recent UK poll suggests public perception of careers in manufacturing has become markedly more po…
AI Expert Katragadda Appointed 142nd President of IET
Added: 13 Oct 2023
Artificial Intelligence specialist Dr. Gopichand Katragadda has been appointed the 142nd President …
Two handed touchy-feely robot can pick a peck of pickled Pringles
Added: 10 Sep 2023
Scientists at the University of Bristol say their AI enhanced, bi-manual robot has achieved ‘near-h…
Latest PMI results produce a chorus of industry warnings
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Manufacturers have reacted with gloom to the latest CIPS UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ inde…
Process industries’ relief as Government shelves CE replacement plans ‘indefinitely’
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Process industry firms and organisations have reacted with relief to the announcement that the UK w…
Chemical industry ‘must be seen as crucial to net zero or struggle to attract talent’
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Public belief that the chemicals industry is not key to achieving net zero is undermining its recru…
