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Automation’s coming but we don’t need new skills, say 1 in 3 UK workers
Added: 13 Nov 2019
More than one in three UK workers surveyed don’t feel they need to learn new skills, even though ne…
More than 0.6 million manufacturing jobs gone since crash says GMB union
Added: 13 Nov 2019
A total of 620,000 manufacturing jobs in the UK have disappeared since the 2008 financial crash, th…
Wind technology to gain multi-million pound training centre
Added: 5 Nov 2019
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched a new multi-million pound national Floati…
Oil & gas leaders commit to industry-wide competence measurement
Added: 5 Nov 2019
Leading oil and gas engineering companies have helped embed a Government-sponsored system of compet…
UK engineering firms 'could be missing out on £10 billion R&D funding annually'
Added: 30 Oct 2019
New research claims that UK engineering companies are potentially missing out on more than £10 bill…
AFRC and Siemens seal deal to make Scottish factories smarter
Added: 23 Oct 2019
Strathclyde university’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) has officially agreed a collaborat…
Make UK conferences spell out impending Brexit implications
Added: 23 Oct 2019
Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK staged two conferences in three days to provide emergency guida…
Full steam ahead as Spirax Sarco marks 30 years of driving accreditation
Added: 22 Oct 2019
Steam solutions provider Spirax Sarco is celebrating three decades of providing City & Guilds cours…
AEMT announces 2019 finalists shortlist
Added: 22 Oct 2019
A total of 25 finalists have been chosen for the six categories in the annual Association of Electr…
Facility launch 'a gamechanger for oil and gas measurement'
Added: 22 Oct 2019
TÜV SÜD’s National Engineering Laboratory has announced the launch of its £16 million Advanced Mult…
IMechE boost for engineers graduating from the University of Northampton
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has confirmed it is re-accrediting the University …
Relax… you’ve got through the deadliest workplace day of the year
Added: 9 Oct 2019
Superstitious souls might dread the approach of Friday the 13th but engineers who prefer to rely on…
Flexible working emerges as new priority for manufacturing employees
Added: 9 Oct 2019
Automation and agile production methods are contributing to a growing demand among manufacturing st…
Engineers get to voice their thoughts on state of the nation
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The UK’s engineers are invited to share their views on the political, industrial and other challeng…
Drax go-ahead puts Government and Planning Inspectorate at odds
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The Government has announced that it has approved the installation of four new gas fired turbines f…
adi shapes future engineering careers with its fourth intake of pre-apprentices
Added: 8 Oct 2019
Birmingham-based engineering firm adi Group has welcomed a fourth intake to its pioneering pre-appr…
Fuchs aims for lubricants top spot with giant new automated site
Added: 2 Oct 2019
Fuchs Lubricants has begun work on a £5 million fully-automated raw materials warehouse with 4,000 …
Engineers who work remotely ‘earn nearly 50% more’ claim
Added: 2 Oct 2019
Remote working may not only become increasingly common for engineers but potentially more lucrative…
Deadline looms for top engineering women’s award nominations
Added: 2 Oct 2019
With just days to go before the nominations close, the annual FDM everywoman in Technology Awards a…
Assystem joins Northern Powerhouse Partner Programme
Added: 24 Sep 2019
Assystem, the world’s third largest nuclear engineering firm, has become an official partner in the…
