End of the Chinese dream?
After a period of almost constant and unparalleled growth, heavy industry in China is facing up to a mini-crisis with Samsung Electronics moving to Vietnam and the Japanese government paying…
Factory 2.0
Chinese automotive industry back to normal
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology agency said last week that the country’s automobile sector is back to normal, with both output and sales in May increasing more than…
Danone manufactures bottles from captured carbon
The French food manufacturer Danone & chemical manufacturing company LanzaTech have announced that they have made a stunning technological breakthrough with bottles made from captured carbon Danone has always been…
Epson Robots launch new GX-4 and GX-8 robots
Epson Robots has recently unveiled six new robots which are capable of working with 4 kg and 8 kg payloads and have arm lengths that range from 250 mm to…
Formlabs unveil dental academy of the future
Formlabs announced it has launched Formlabs Dental Academy, a new educational platform dedicated to advancing 3D printing in dentistry with online and in-person courses, step-by-step guides, webinars, and more. The…
Semiconductor chip shortage continues to hold back automotive industry
In what has been a challenging period for the automotive industry, Toyota has warned that its profits may fall by a fifth over 2022 due to increasing energy costs and…
Predictive Manufacturing as a service – gamechanger?
It is estimated that top fortune 500 manufacturing enterprises lose almost $1 trillion to unplanned downtime every year, a sum that represents nearly 8% of their annual revenue. Here we…
Introducing ANYmal – the autonomous robot dog
Perhaps in the factory of the future man will have a new best friend in ANYmal, an autonomous robot dog designed by ANYbotics. In the company’s mission statement ANYmal is…
MIT Semiconductor Laboratory project gets the green light
Gilbane-Exyte Joint Venture have been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a Compound Semiconductor Laboratory – Microsystem Integration Facility at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in…
HARP Technology – revolutionizing production?
High area rapid printing technology (or HARP) is a new subset of additive manufacturing or 3D printing which can be used to generate continuous, high-throughput printing of large objects at…
