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The spectre of Brexit is looming large as a source of business risk for manufacturers in 2019 which, together with a cocktail of protectionism and looming global slowdown is producing a more pessimistic outlook for growth prospects in the coming year according to a major survey released today by EEF, …

ams and Face++ have agreed a co-operation arrangement to accelerate OEMs’ and system integrators’ deployments of 3D optical sensing technologies such as face recognition. This partnership means that manufacturers can go to market faster with superior systems for performing functions such as face recognition, facial payments, Animoji creation and augmented/virtual …

Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the world as we know it. But what exactly is industry 4.0? What technologies does it use? In this article, Anna Kucirkova discusses everything you need to know. In the late 19th century, the world was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of the steam engine. …

The team at UK-based Evolution Measurement are celebrating strengthening their relationship with partner Guildline Instruments after being awarded additional territories in Scandinavia and Finland. Evolution Measurement currently supports the Canadian Instrument manufacturer in the UK, Ireland, France, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The additional territories clearly demonstrate Guildline Instruments’ confidence in …

Emerson has been named the ‘Industrial IoT Company of the Year’ by IoT Breakthrough for the second year in a row. The honour recognises Emerson’s innovation and leadership in driving Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies and strategies for customers in manufacturing industries such as oil and gas, power, chemical, …

Professor Hugh Griffiths, a world authority in the field of radar research and the leading UK radar engineer of his generation, has received an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for his services to the engineering profession. Prof. Griffiths is the Thales/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of RF Sensors …

Investment in the latest inline inspection technologies enables food manufacturers to not only improve contamination detection and product quality, but also production efficiency – as Bell Food Group recently discovered. Bell is one of the major processors of meat and convenience products in Europe. Increased customer requirements and demands in terms of …

A NIMS-led research group succeeded in developing a high-quality diamond cantilever with among the highest quality (Q) factor values at room temperature ever achieved. The group also succeeded for the first time in the world in developing a single crystal diamond microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor chip that can be actuated …

The American space agency’s New Horizons probe remains on course for its daring flyby of Ultima Thule between 29 December 2018 and 4 January 2019. When the mission sweeps past the 30km wide object on New Year’s Day, it will be making the most distant ever visit to a Solar System …

It is perhaps an understatement to suggest that 2018 has been marred by uncertainty – from the lingering unpredictability of Brexit to wider global geopolitical incidents – and 2019 looks to offer much of the same. Despite this, the pace of technological change in the UK has continued mostly unabated …