Industrial

 Recently, Balloon One performed some data analysis to see how successfully the UK is using automation within industry in comparison to other countries around the world. And, according to the findings, the country is not only lagging behind when it comes to automation, but its productivity is suffering as a result.

New instruction set architectures don't come about very often in the semiconductor processor industry. The last significant change saw Arm develop cores and sell them as an IP license, in an instant changing how leading vendors of that era go about designing processors. Now, in a time of trade-wars and a pandemic, the availability of an open-source, royalty-free, extensible ISA is proving to be a transformative and disruptive force. By Mark Patr...

The last 12 months have hit the working population hard, with UK redundancies tripling in the final quarter of 2020 compared to quarter one, and 3.9 million people on furlough schemes as recently as December 2020. As the STEM sector celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday 11th February, we get the lowdown on why she 19-year-old Abby Clark from Crook in County Durham, opted for an apprentice course in Applied Science...

Univar Solutions has created a digital supply chain advantage with the help of secure industrial IOT platform specialist MYNXG. The Company will leverage MYNXG’s expertise to connect critical operating technology (OT) to global asset control rooms with a focus on digitising and automating manual supply chain processes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the analog, in-person lives we were living last year into today's much more digitally mediated experiences. National lockdowns have forced work, education, exercise, entertainment, shopping, healthcare, and social interactions online. What were everyday rituals such as 'going to work' and 'eating out with the family' now seem like an anomaly. I'm reminded of this every time I compare the way I hosted gatherin...

Tasks at the embedded edge are getting more and more complex. Supporting up to eight cores and 16 threads, the recently launched AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors are hoping to pave the way for x86-based embedded designs with high compute density and performance per watt.

In 2020, Germany’s ‘Messe-land’ was hit hard due to the pandemic. Speaking on the topic of trade fairs as part of my podcast, the trade fair expert Sylvia Kanitz from the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) confirmed that she had not experienced such a disruption to the industry in her entire career. Here, Publitek's Mark Herten explains more.

Mitsubishi Electric and AR Controls have provided a steel sheet press automation solution for Unipres. The upgrade allowed the car part manufacturer to significantly increase the uptime, productivity and energy efficiency of its transfer press, while also empowering operators to have greater insight and control over the production processes.

Outdated attitudes towards technology amongst senior business leaders are at risk of jeopardising future business survival, new research has found. The Connected Enterprise report, produced by digital transformation specialists Sigma Dynamics, in partnership with applied futurist Tom Cheesewright, has revealed that nearly half (49%) of engineering leaders, industry C-suite executives, directors and senior managers are sceptical about the benefits...

Analog Devices’ Marco La Ciacera, Regional Sales Manager, and Brendan O’Dowd, General Manager, discuss industrial automation, Industry 4.0, and how to prepare for the factory of the future.