With energy prices again starting to rise, now is a good opportunity to review some of the financial incentives from the UK Government for installing energy saving equipment. For example, it is not only the ECA scheme that makes installing energy saving as variable speed drives sound investment. In addition to lower running costs, […]
Growing UK support for companies to implement Industry 4.0 / 4IR The future factory is a sense of how manufacturing will develop. A recent report suggests total manufacturing costs will be reduced by up to 20%, depending on the material costs. In addition, manufacturers will benefit from improvements in flexibility, quality, speed, […]
Mitsubishi Electric has addressed the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) need for business to harvest production data from shop floor to cloud computing with its Edge Computing solution. The solutions are built on local control platforms to provide filtering and pre-processing of production data from intelligent devices, and at the same time facilitate communications to […]
UK manufacturing got off to a much stronger start to the year than expected, defying firms’ own expectations and providing a much-needed boost to confidence, recruitment and investment. So says the Ql 2017 Manufacturing Outlook from the EEF, and accountancy and business advisory firm BOO LLP. The survey reports positives across all the sector’s […]
HMS identifies industrial networking trends for 2017 The maker of Anybus devices, HMS Industrial Networks is closely involved with communication networking. Their latest report reveals significant growth in sales of Industrial Ethernet and Wireless devices continue. They believe the driver to be the increasing need for industrial devices to get connected to the […]