A digital leap is underway in Finland as the country’s manufacturing industry embraces research from the IoT industry, with the aim to convert factories into innovation platforms and have them share their successful solutions to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the manufacturing industry

International supply chain solutions provider TouchPath is launching a new version of ‘TouchAsset’, its manufacturing and distribution asset performance management system

Sheffield specialist engineering group SCX has lifted its biggest ever prize – a national Made in The UK award.

Working in co-operation with 17 partner companies, Siemens Italy has founded MindSphere World based in Italy

SCHUNK has used the Automatica exhibition in Munich to demonstrate a new range of gripping systems

News in brief

During 2019, the use of liquefied petroleum gas in Toyota Material Handling Europe’s production facility in Mjölby, Sweden will be replaced with liquid biogas

Enrico Krog Iversen, former CEO of the industry-leading collaborative robot pioneer, Universal Robots, along with the Danish Growth Fund, is addressing the next challenge in automation with the merger of three innovative end-of-arm tooling companies to facilitate the ongoing growth of collaborative robotics

A new production plant for MULTIVAC Bulgaria Production Ltd has been inaugurated in Bozhurishte, near Sofia, with a festive opening ceremony held in early June 2018

Siemens AG and Covestro Deutschland AG have concluded a Joint Business Development Plan to provide further strategic reinforcement of their trust-based partnership of many years, particularly in the field of digitalisation