All Industry 4.0


Industry 4.0 and motion control

Added: 22 May 2018

We know Industry 4.0 is changing the way we do things but how precisely will these changes affect m…

Temporary builds can help minimise Brexit trading risks

Added: 21 May 2018

As Werner Heisenberg observed back in 1927 with his Uncertainty Principle, it can be hard to totall…

Government green light for speedier shale planning applications

Added: 17 May 2018

Business secretary Greg Clark has vowed to speed up planning applications to develop shale gas expl…

Turck Banner new lines get "down and dirty" on the factory floor

Added: 16 May 2018

Dirty, dangerous, distant and dull – the 4Ds of industrial life continue to drive innovation in ind…

Green light for employer-led materials science apprenticeship degree

Added: 11 May 2018

The Institute for Apprenticeships has approved the development of the occupational standard for the…

PM heralds opening of UK’s first FE college-based biomass training site

Added: 8 May 2018

Prime minister Theresa May performed the official opening for the first further education college-b…

Water

Water recycling achieves a full circle

Added: 8 May 2018

What would those great Victorian public health pioneers John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette have made o…

Investing in pumps modernisation is essential for survival

Added: 8 May 2018

It’s a bald reminder to anyone who assesses a product’s overall cost purely on the basis of its pri…

EEF: Government must address failed productivity strategy

Added: 4 May 2018

Government strategy aimed at boosting UK productivity has failed and needs to set clear goals that …

ABB’s HVDC Light on Statoil’s Troll-A gas platform

ABB wins multi-million deal for world’s largest new offshore project

Added: 4 May 2018

ABB has signed a deal valued at around £18.5 million to provide automation and safety systems for S…

oil taxes

Lloyd’s, Worley and Argent form decommissioning partnership

Added: 4 May 2018

Lloyd’s Register, WorleyParsons, and Ardent have signed a global oil and gas decommissioning consor…

EEF: Number 10 must reform apprentice levy

Added: 30 Apr 2018

Manufacturers’ association the EEF has delivered one of the strongest attacks yet on the government…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power

NIA endorses ETI report’s low cost nuclear claim

Added: 30 Apr 2018

The Nuclear Industry Association has welcomed the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) report into…

EEF plea for cyber security as nearly 50% of UK manufacturers report attacks

Added: 23 Apr 2018

UK manufacturing is the most targeted sector for cyber attacks after government and finance, report…

Norwell seeks training EDGE with upstream e-learning

Added: 23 Apr 2018

Oil industry company Norwell Engineering has launched a 50 module e-learning course to counter what…

3D is revolutionising manufacturing for metal components

Added: 17 Apr 2018

The way we manufacture is changing. Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) is a quickly growing ar…

Manufacturers say UK can exploit global process industry equipment demand

Added: 16 Apr 2018

The UK’s specialist mechanical equipment industry is well placed to exploit its sector’s continued …

Process leader Austin replaces retiring Valente as TUV SUD UK chief

Added: 16 Apr 2018

TUV SUD has appointed Brian Austin as its new CEO for the UK and Ireland, succeeding Michael Valent…

Don't act on impulses, use good sensors

Added: 11 Apr 2018

The world has moved on and so has the technology at our disposal. Why then, asks Ken Roberts, do so…

UKCS operators could save on more than ‘£240 million cost and deferred revenue’

Added: 9 Apr 2018

UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) oil and gas operators are overlooking innovations that could be worth i…