All Skills


Controlling fluid flow variables for smooth production

Added: 15 Feb 2021

Fluid handling variables can all have a detrimental impact, resulting in batches having to be destr…

Understanding the machinery risk assessment process

Added: 10 Feb 2021

The machinery risk assessment process can be complex and once completed may result in significant c…

Engineering leads the way as National Apprenticeship Week highlights lockdown challenges

Added: 9 Feb 2021

School lockdowns and exam cancellations mean many students, and their parents, could be missing out…

Landia dives deep for Scottish Water

Added: 8 Feb 2021

Scottish Water consumers expect a lot from their utility companyand Landia has been in at the deep …

Digital is the gamechanger for plastics recycling

Added: 5 Feb 2021

Recycling is well established on Government and industry agendas, but to make the most of the oppor…

Graduates

UCAS confirms sea change in take up of university engineering places

Added: 5 Feb 2021

Engineering has seen a massive rise in popularity among university students, a fact confirmed by th…

Work completed on Birmingham University’s £46.5 million School of Engineering

Added: 3 Feb 2021

Birmingham university has taken possession of its newly built School of Engineering premises, which…

Scientist gives new meaning to concept of robot dancing

Added: 3 Feb 2021

A quantum physicist seeking to break down the walls between art and science has put theory into pra…

EAS chief Karsanbhai takes over as David Farr steps down from helm at Emerson

Added: 3 Feb 2021

CEO of Emerson David Farr is to step down this week after two decades at the head of the global tec…

trade

Post-transition red tape stifling border trade warns Make UK

Added: 3 Feb 2021

The Government is being urged by Make UK to address urgently border delays and red tape after the o…

ECITB prepares to expand its global training reach

Added: 3 Feb 2021

UK Government-sponsored skills body the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) an…

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2021 announces autumn return

Added: 27 Jan 2021

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2021 will go ahead as a two-day event on 6 and 7 October 2021 …

Trade unions will shrink to ten percent of manufacturing workforce, warns report

Added: 25 Jan 2021

Membership of trade unions will shrink to one in ten of manufacturing employees, with poential impl…

Marlowe seals £10 million purchase of WPL

Added: 25 Jan 2021

Compliance experts Marlowe have acquired wastewater treatment leader WPL for £10 million, adding th…

STEM sisters sing out for women in science

Added: 25 Jan 2021

A new online show has harnessed art in the cause of women in science, in an effort to interest prim…

Siemens defies UK economic downturn to hire nearly 30 young recruits

Added: 20 Jan 2021

Siemens has hired a total of 26 young graduates and apprentices in order to boost its growing digit…

The automation pyramid has had its day

Added: 13 Jan 2021

IT/OT convergence will lead to the collapse of the ‘automation pyramid’ predicts COPA-DATA’s Stefan…

Coronavirus is new but recessions are not: How engineering can learn lessons from the past

Added: 13 Jan 2021

Learning from previous recessions and seizing cost saving opportunities should be the priorities fo…

Corporate finance leader heads Ashtead Technology senior appointments

Added: 5 Jan 2021

Corporate finance expert Ingrid Stewart has been appointed the first chief financial officer (CFO) …

Water

Kemira completes first stage for massive expansion in UK water treatment chemicals production

Added: 5 Jan 2021

Global chemicals company Kemira has announced the first part of a two-stage capacity expansion in i…