The value of UK manufacturing output increased by £21bn in 2025, despite a workforce reduction of more than 36,000 people and ...

ABB, Phoenix Contact, WSCAD and the enclosure specialist, häwa – have demonstrated what they claim is the world’s control ...

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has released a White Paper arguing that the UK should learn lessons from abroad on how to accelerate its adoption of robots and autonomous systems (RAS) to ...

Schneider Electric claims to have developed industry’s first open, software‑defined DCS (distributed control system). Called ...

W H Shoebridge & Sons, the East Midlands electric motors business established more than a century ago, has been sold to Ipswich-based Boardley & Roberts for an undisclosed sum. Shoebridge was formed ...

Phoenix Contact has launched a hardware-independent, software controller based on its PLCnext technology. It predicts that Virtual PLCnext Control, which allows flexible automation functions to be ...

Flexxbotics’ platform offers interoperability between more than 1,000 makes and models of factory equipment Flexxbotics, the US specialist in autonomous manufacturing, has made its software-defined ...

Nozomi’s Vantage IQ AI assistant will offer cybersecurity help based on a company’s data “For the first time, OT/IoT security teams have an AI assistant that is context-aware, delivering instant, ...

A Rockwell worker assembling an Otto 600 AMR in Milwaukee Rockwell Automation has started to produce autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at its global headquarters in Milwaukee. It says that the ...

Storm Reply’s London lab can test manufacturing systems off-site to reduce downtime. A new laboratory in London is thought to be the UK’s first cloud-native facility dedicated to the manufacturing ...

Wheeled robots such as Rainbow Robotics’ RB-Y1 will have a greater chance of success than walking machines, according to Gartner Fewer than 100 humanoid robot developers will progress beyond ...

The German researchers say they have dramatically reduced the cost of twisting copper to produce hairpin stators Researchers in Germany say they have slashed the cost of manufacturing electric motors ...