Chemical companies are on course to be affected by waves of retirement, with around 30 per cent of employees in the industry being 50 years of age or over and a...
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but ‘Spot’ is here to prove otherwise. This four-legged industrial robot never stops learning,...
McKinsey & Company’s Supply Chain Pulse Survey demonstrates a rapid digital planning revolution, with companies accelerating the adoption of...
In industrial facilities, electric motors drive everything from conveyor belts to fans and compressors. Now, with the cost of energy rising, manufacturers are t...
PLCs can survive for over 20 years, and it’s something we see regularly here at Foxmere. Although the component parts of a PLC, such as central processing...
Oliver Evans and 250 years of automation 250 years ago, American inventor Oliver Evans laid the foundation for mass production with the first fully automated f...
At the heart of any automated setup is the controller, a decision-making hub that monitors and controls industrial equipment and its motion. However, the choice...
The UK paper industry’s need for sorting and quality control systems The UK paper industry heavily relies on recovered fibre, constituting approximately ...
Since transport accounts for 40 per cent of all quarry accidents and 60 per cent of all deaths, the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in quarries has th...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently developed a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magne...
The UK is currently experiencing a significant downturn in manufacturing production. In fact, a very recent report has cited it as the deepest de...
Producing more and polluting less in the pulp and paper sector ~ According to statista, packaging, paper and paperboard production has increased significa...
The manufacturing of micro medical devices, with their increasingly complex geometries and tiny dimensions, presents unique challenges to manufacturers. When th...
Food processing plants typically run their equipment for 16 to 20 hours a day, yet a Forbes report claims that manufacturers face an average of 15 hou...
The UK manufacturing sector must do more to prevent employees leaving their roles ~ Latest research from Zellis, a HR and payroll specialist, has revealed tha...
The market for counterfeit electronics is one of the industry's most widely discussed and analysed topics, yet little headway has been made in solving the probl...
According to Intoware’s survey, which included more than 1000 UK-based industrial firms, 74 per cent of respondents said that they still rely on lega...
According to the RAC Report on Motoring 2023, the worst quarter of the year for pothole breakdowns is the colder winter months from January to March. The p...
According to the RAC Report on Motoring 2023, the worst quarter of the year for pothole breakdowns is the colder winter months from January to March. The p...
By 2030, it is predicted that over 85 million positions will be unfilled across the globe, hampering economic growth and presenting an opportunity for businesse...
ABB and Microsoft have recently expanded their work together by integrating the Azure OpenAI generative AI technology into ABB’s Ability Genix Industrial ...