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The Manufacturing Technology Centre is increasing its apprenticeship portfolio with the launch of a Level 4 apprenticeship programme to help manufacturing businesses develop specialist skills, knowledge and expertise within their workforce. The Level 4 Engineering Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship gives learners the flexibility and capability to become high-performing technicians by exploring …

Brexit will have significant adverse effects on a UK manufacturing sector highly integrated with the EU single market, and that disruption will have a sizeable negative impact on the wider UK economy, a new report by UK in a Changing Europe finds. The report Manufacturing and Brexit, which reviews evidence on …

AMETEK Land has achieved accreditation against the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories) standard as approved by national accreditation bodies for its three laboratories across the world – United Kingdom, United States, and India. “We are very proud to have achieved ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation …

Workers or employees worldwide are returning to workplaces that are very different to the ones they left when lockdown started. The effect that Covid-19 has had on industry is only just beginning to become fully understood, but companies are prioritising the introduction of social distancing and new hygiene measures, remote …

As more businesses return to work in the UK after closing premises during the Coronavirus pandemic, Bureau Veritas has launched a new app to support organisations in assessing their readiness to resume operations safely. I-check from Bureau Veritas, which is already in operation successfully across Europe, is now available to …

Nexperia today announced the industry’s widest portfolio of automotive-qualified discretes in space-saving, thermally-efficient, AOI-compatible DFN (Discrete Flat No leads) packages. The AEC-Q101 range of devices available cuts across all Nexperia’s product groups and includes switching, Schottky, Zener and protection diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), N- and P-channel MOSFETs, resistor-equipped transistors …

Manufacturers must redesign and reform their Global Supply Chains or Global Production Networks (GPN) if they want to survive and prosper in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals. The virus’ impact demonstrates that global manufacturing concerns must switch from large production sites in a single location, …

During surface-mining operations, large mobile reclamation machines are used to recover bulk materials. On each machine, a bucket-wheel excavator collects material and deposits it onto a conveyor. As an area is cleared of material, the machine moves along parallel steel travel rails to the next area, allowing continuous operation without …

The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), the UK’s independent advisory body on the responsible use of AI, has said that the UK needs to ramp up efforts to address barriers to innovation if it is to benefit from recent breakthroughs in AI. The analysis, which reflects the findings …

A ground-breaking deployment of autonomous vehicle technology by DP World, the operator of the Jebel Ali container port in Dubai, is to demonstrate the performance and reliability of technology provided by Xsens, the manufacturer of motion-tracking sensors, supporting DGWorld, a manufacturer of artificial intelligence (AI)-based autonomous and robotic vehicle systems. …