Around the Industry

Morgan Thermal Ceramics’ has been named ‘Supplier of the Year’ by Tata Chemicals, a global company specialising in chemicals and crop nutrition. The award further highlights the Morgan Thermal Ceramic’s ongoing commitment in delivering high quality engineering solutions to its customers.

ABB is poised to start the New Year with a bang following the order of 2,400 robots by BMW Group. Over the next three years the robots will be installed at factories in Regensburg and Leipzig, Germany, as well as in Tiexi, China. The ABB robots will mainly be used for material handling tasks, as well as gluing and spot welding processes.

Figures released from the Manufacturing Advisory Service show manufacturing SMEs in London and the South East are optimistic for growth in 2013, reinforcing recent economic forecasts predicting an upturn in the sector.

The CC-Link Partner Association has opened an office near the Indian capital of New Delhi to serve one of the world’s most exciting manufacturing economies. This expands the network of existing offices in the UK, Germany, North America, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.

Simufact Engineering and the Malaysian university UiTM (Universiti Teknologi MARA) in Shah Alam have started to cooperate in research and education of students and software users from the industry. The focus of the cooperation is on modern software-aided simulation methods that are employed in the production of metal-based industrial goods such as automobiles and engines.

FANUC UK has been presented with a prestigious award by training business Midland Group Training Services Limited. Supported by the Skills Funding Agency, a partner organisation of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, MGTS presents the award annually to businesses that have illustrated a sustained commitment and loyalty to the apprentice programme.

Armacell UK Ltd, has become the latest construction products manufacturer to achieve the prestigious BuildingConfidence accreditation. The accreditation followed a rigorous audit process to check that the company meets the scheme’s requirements in a number of key areas, including: product integrity, health & safety, environment & sustainability plus ethics & values.

Altair today announced the keynote presentations for the 6th European Altair Technology Conference, one of the premier product lifecycle management technology events in the advanced manufacturing community. Eight keynote presentations from several industries including automotive, heavy machinery, shipbuilding, and aerospace, will give insights into development strategies, software tool harmonization, and enterprise simulation.

New machine vision training seminars in the UK will provide machine vision education for end-users and vision integrators alike. A programme of product-specific training, independent machine vision theory training and best practice training will take place in the UK during 2013. These seminars are organised by the European Imaging Academy, an educational initiative from STEMMER IMAGING.

CAE Value AB announced today that the company will increase its European activities on HEEDS, the multidisciplinary design optimization and exploration software from Red Cedar Technology. Being the major European value added reseller of HEEDS, CAE Value will start its 2013 initiative with two seminars one in the UK, West Midlands and one in Sweden, Gothenburg on January 29th and 30th.