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Process leaders on industrial strategy: good but not sufficient
Added: 28 Nov 2017
Welcome for the Government’s newly unveiled industrial strategy has been tempered by demands from t…
Process industries provide a Budget welcome, but with caveats
Added: 23 Nov 2017
The first Autumn Budget in 20 years received a mostly favourable welcome from the process sectors b…
STEM grads more likely to be out of work says CIPD report
Added: 17 Nov 2017
Young people who study STEM subjects have the highest rate of graduate unemployment immediately aft…
Scuoler to chair key UK export body
Added: 13 Nov 2017
Retiring chief executive of manufacturers’ organisation the EEF, Terry Scuoler is the new chair of …
Life sciences in Scotland warns of increasing uncertainty for sector
Added: 10 Nov 2017
Life science companies in Scotland are facing increasing uncertainty because of lack of clarity abo…
‘Human-robot collaboration needed to counter 0.6 million job threat’
Added: 1 Nov 2017
An estimated 0.6 million UK jobs will disappear in one industrial sector alone over the next 20 yea…
Business dissatisfaction with UK infrastructure reaches record levels
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Record numbers of UK companies are dissatisfied with the rate of improvement to the country’s infra…
BEIS secretary Clarke to headline EEF manufacturing conference
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Greg Clarke, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been confirmed as …
Emerson’s Paradigm takeover will boost position in exploration software
Added: 17 Oct 2017
Emerson has positioned itself as the largest independent provider of exploration and production sof…
Labrador secures £1m investment for smart energy device
Added: 19 Sep 2017
Smart energy company Labrador has announced it has raised in excess of £1 million from more than 30…
CBI and EEF reports reveal upturn in UK manufacturing performance
Added: 25 Jul 2017
Reports from the CBI and EEF published this week suggest that manufacturing output in the UK is imp…
More than £0.3 mill in R&D on offer to engineering innovators
Added: 30 May 2017
Seven engineering innovators will have the chance to share £350,000 of R&D support in a competition…
Report warns half of all Scots jobs to be automated by 2030
Added: 8 May 2017
Nearly one in two jobs in Scotland are at risk of automation by the end of the next decade, suggest…
Smart plastics to ‘sense’ equipment failure
Added: 14 Jul 2016
Igus, a German developer of specialist plastics, has unveiled new products to add Industry 4.0 capa…
'Gaping hole' in Industry 4.0 knowledge
Added: 16 Jun 2016
There is a gaping hole in UK manufacturers’ understanding of Industry 4.0 as only 8% are confident …
Skills shortage ‘to spiral further’
Added: 29 Mar 2016
A report published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF suggests plans to drive productivity improvem…
Manufacturers highlight internet concerns
Added: 9 Feb 2016
A survey conducted by the manufacturers’ organisation EEF suggests broadband connectivity will be i…
MIT chip harvests IoT potential
Added: 23 Jun 2015
An ultralow-power chip developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) im…
Internet of Things research hub for UK
Added: 2 Jun 2015
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today opened a competition to de…
Manufacturers voice ‘Industry 4.0’ concern
Added: 23 Feb 2015
Manufacturing trade body EEF has published research which suggests that 80% of manufacturers in the…
