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 ...

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

The value of UK manufacturing output increased by £21bn in 2025, despite a workforce reduction of more than 36,000 people and 2,500 fewer manufacturers, according to an analysis of ONS data by FourJaw ...

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

The UK automation specialist Guidance Automation has completed initial trials of an mobile picking vehicle equipped with a robotic arm. The vehicle navigates autonomously between conveyors and shelves ...

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 ...

Infinitum, the US developer of air-core motors with PCB stators, has unveiled a high-efficiency integrated fan system that, ...

Phoenix Contact has announced a new way of tackling the challenge of integrating a variety of signals in small, decentralised ...

The Canadian machine vision specialist LMI Technologies has announced a “new class” of industrial 2D vision systems that incorporate Nvidia’s Orin NX edge-native AI, resulting in integrated vision ...

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 ...

Festo’s new servodrive simplifies implementing high-level extended safety functions in automated machines Festo has announced a servodrive that combines motion control and safety functions in a ...