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IT/OT convergence: greater accuracy, agile responses and happy stakeholders

Added: 18 Sep 2019

Novotek’s George Walker explains how, as with smartphones, modern industrial firms’ IT and OT opera…

Siemens puts its money where its mouth is with Digital Academy pilot launch

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Six undergraduates have won £3,000 annual sponsorship and the chance of a three months paid placeme…

Process innovators win Queen’s Awards for breakthroughs and exports

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Three process industry firms are celebrating this week being among 200 companies to receive a Queen…

Nuclear engineers

Engineering salaries show rise despite business uncertainty

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Engineering pay increased year on year for August, with salaries for new roles in the industry up 1…

Million pound eel protection screen unveiled on River Derwent

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Yorkshire Water has completed its £1million scheme has been completed to prevent eels from the Rive…

Ion Science stays on target to achieve £20 million turnover in anniversary year

Added: 10 Sep 2019

The world’s largest manufacturer of volatile organic compounds (VOC) monitors, Cambridge-based Ion …

Schaeffler supplies its largest-ever spherical plain bearing

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Schaeffler has produced the largest spherical plain bearing in the company’s history  – a monster w…

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Financial jargon a ‘brake on manufacturing growth’

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Small to medium sized manufacturing enterprises are missing out on access to better finance because…

'Interesting times' beckon for pharma and biotech

Added: 4 Sep 2019

The scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting can be staggering to behold – whether in terms of the nu…

Pride of the North: Previewing Northern Manufacturing & Electronics 2019

Added: 4 Sep 2019

The North’s top industrial technology show, Northern Manufacturing & Electronics 2019, returns to E…

Joint BioEnergy Institute

Nominations launch for IChemE 2020 medals including new Clean Energy award

Added: 2 Sep 2019

The Institution of Chemical Engineers has added a Clean Energy category to its annual array of meda…

Emerson maintenance reliability management consulting

Manufacturing unprepared for supply chain legal changes, warns consultancy

Added: 2 Sep 2019

Nearly two thirds of engineering, manufacturing and tech business responding to a survey say they a…

Heritage Award for Watt’s surviving historic Dundee engine

Added: 2 Sep 2019

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has presented its Engineering Heritage Award to one of only…

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Nearly 40 key bodies back new engineering manifesto demands

Added: 28 Aug 2019

The body representing key professional organisations and almost half a million UK engineers, has pu…

Environment Agency and utilities under attack for ‘open sewer’ rivers

Added: 27 Aug 2019

The Environment Agency and utility companies have come under increased criticism over the state of …

New Pump Industry Awards promise nominations boost for anniversary year

Added: 27 Aug 2019

The Pump Industry Awards is braced for even more nominations to mark its 20th anniversary next year…

Manufacturers report turnover fall and recruitment squeeze, claims survey

Added: 27 Aug 2019

UK manufacturers are developing their own workforces to counter a chronic shortage of suitable recr…

Valves should be on your summer maintenance list

Added: 22 Aug 2019

Recent summer maintenance programmes within industrial facilities should not have overlooked the im…

Xylem salute to Whaley Bridge flood emergency team

Added: 20 Aug 2019

Xylem UK chief Jason Howlett has congratulated his staff for their part in helping to prevent the c…

Nuclear know-how gets to heart of a critical pumps issue

Added: 19 Aug 2019

By asking the right questions, Sulzer helped reduce power demand for a critical pump serving a nucl…