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Petition demands better sanitary disposal provision for women engineers onsite

Added: 10 Sep 2022

The engineering profession is being challenged to support a petition that calls for better sanitary…

Tech spin-out targets thin film market potential

Added: 24 Aug 2022

A new Scottish university-inspired venture is combining academic and commercial know how to target …

ONS figures spell problems for manufacturing pay

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) employment details suggest manufacturing is performing a…

Siemens hits carbon deadline eight years early

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Siemens has beaten its target to achieve carbon neutrality for its Congleton factory by nearly a de…

Biopharma boost

Biopharma struggles to keep up with process industry digitalisation

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Biopharmaceutical companies in the UK reveal wide variety in their adoption of digitalisation accor…

Schaeffler to cut 4k jobs in major ‘transformation’ scheme

Schaeffler purchase heralds drive for growth in linear tech 

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Schaeffler has signed an agreement to acquire global manufacturer and supplier of linear technology…

Businesses urged to enter Innovate UK competition as deadline looms

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Process companies are being invited to take part in an Innovate UK programme designed to boost comp…

Lorien confirms new MD

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Phil Colquhoun has been appointed as the new managing director at Lorien Engineering Solutions.

Award-winning NMITE chief to quit next month

Added: 10 Aug 2022

The high-profile president and chief executive of NMITE, the New Model Institute for Technology and…

Antipodean collaboration to kick cybercrime off shop floor

Added: 26 Jul 2022

Technology and manufacturing innovators from the UK and Australia are creating a map of security ri…

digital factory

Made Smarter highlights need for manufacturers’ digital drive

Added: 26 Jul 2022

The organisation set up to boost manufacturers’ take up of digital tools is urging small to medium …

Supply chain issues ‘fuelling multiple pressure-points for manufacturers’

Added: 26 Jul 2022

Nearly four in 10 medium sized UK firms suffered supply chain problems in the last year, states a r…

Search on for successor as IET interim president takes over

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Interim Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) chief executive and secretary Ed Almond has…

Nuclear atom

Rolls-Royce unveils nuclear SMR site shortlist

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Six areas in the north of England, East Midlands and Wales are in the running to house Roll-Royce’s…

IET unveils six finalists for prestigious Harvey research prize

Added: 28 Jun 2022

Six leading figures in research engineering have made the shortlist for one of the world’s most pre…

Senseye acquisition boosts Siemens’ predictive presence 

Added: 28 Jun 2022

Southampton-based AI solutions provider Senseye has been bought by Siemens, in a move that will fur…

COP president Sharma hails Africa cold chain initiative

Added: 26 Jun 2022

Cabinet minister and COP26 president Alok Sharma has voiced his support for a UK-backed African ini…

Felixstowe powers a course to net zero

Added: 13 Jun 2022

The UK’s largest container port has awarded a contract for electrical technology designed to reduce…

Digital Process Manufacturing Centre targets Scotland process leaders

Added: 13 Jun 2022

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, will open a new technology centre in Ay…

Talking factory sense in every language

Added: 1 Jun 2022

Language barriers provide obstacles to safety and efficiency in the industrial workplace but techno…