The hidden freight savings inside cabinet-free machine design When machine builders talk about the benefits of cabinet-free automation, the conversation usually focuses on faster installation and simplified maintenance. What often goes unnoticed is a commercial advantage that starts well before a machine even reaches the factory floor: shipping costs. In a logistics environment increasingly shaped…

For years, passwords have been treated as the first line of defence in cybersecurity. Yet despite increasingly complex password policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) requirements, password-related breaches continue to dominate the threat landscape, with phishing and stolen credentials remaining common attack methods. For manufacturing and engineering businesses operating across complex digital environments that span production…

One of Bridgnorth’s largest employers has completed its latest capital equipment installation to take total investment in its Stourbridge Road factory to £180m. Bridgnorth Aluminium, which is the UK’s last remaining aluminium rolling mill, revealed the new thin gauge slitting line at a special party held this weekend to mark 25 years of ownership by…

Overcoming language barriers, inspiring the next generation of industry professionals and introducing several major improvement activities has helped a Birmingham apprentice take the main title at the In-Comm Training Awards. Polish-born Aurelia Wojtowicz was crowned as the ‘Outstanding Learner of the Year’ on Friday evening in front of 400 people at The Halls in Wolverhampton,…

Hundreds of downstream manufacturers will still be hit hard by the new steel safeguarding measures being introduced tomorrow – despite a slight softening by ministers. This is the urgent message from the Confederation of British Metalforming (CBM), who represent the interests of more than 75,000 employees at 200 companies involved in the production of fasteners, forgings, sheet metalwork and cold rolled…

UK manufacturers looking to reduce operational risk and address labour shortages have received a boost today with news that iconsys has signed a strategic partnership agreement with a leading global robotics expert. The Telford-based industrial automation specialist has committed to working with Tebulo Robotics to accelerate the deployment of advanced robotic automation solutions across heavy…

The programmable power supply TDK Lambda GEN-300-5 is an advanced DC power source designed for the most demanding laboratory and industrial applications. The device offers a wide range of voltage 0…300 VDC, current up to 5A, and power 1.5kW, all enclosed in an exceptionally compact, full-size 19’’ rack enclosure with a height of only 1U. It is the perfect solution wherever precision control, parameter…

Jochen Kern, Head of Sales & Marketing, Micro Component Group “Scale-up” is where good ideas go to die. A component that performs flawlessly in a lab build can become unstable, expensive, or impossible to qualify once volumes climb. In precision metal parts, the failure mode is rarely dramatic. It’s subtle. Maybe a burr that becomes…

Continuous monitoring, rapid leak detection and managed services help water companies adapt to increasingly volatile conditions. With drought and flooding increasingly arriving in quick succession, water companies need leakage strategies that can adapt just as quickly. Here, Dineke Fischer, senior executive at Ovarro, explains why continuous network visibility, rapid leak detection and cloud-based analytics are…

San Giovanni in Persiceto, Bologna, 22 June 2026 – SAFE S.p.A., an Italian company specialising in the design and production of compressors and advanced systems for natural and renewable gases, confirms its technological contribution to Agrobiofert S.r.l.’s H2-FARM project, which has reached the formal completion-of-works notification in the heart of the industrial area of Priolo…