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Made Smarter Backs 250th Manufacturer with £18m Industry 4.0 Tech Investment

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Totalling 275 projects funded, the investment is worth £18M, including £5M funded by the government-funded and industry-led initiative and £13M from the businesses themselves. Made Smarter, which was launched in 2019 to help SME manufacturers digitalise, decarbonise and drive growth, is now looking towards further success in 2023.

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Robotics and Automation in 2022 – Can They be a Hedge to Recession?

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Robotics and automation have significantly revolutionized how people work and live across a number of industries. With the increasing likelihood of a global economic recession in 2023, many industries are struggling with increasing manufacturing cost, such as labor and raw material costs, and maintaining their profit margins.

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The Connectivity Revolution: How the Emergence of 5G Networks Are Reshaping Manufacturing

21st Century Tech

The appearance of 5G beginning in 2019 has meant for cellphone users, faster responses and downloads whether doing a search or viewing a movie or video. But for industry, 5G is the linchpin of the long-predicted, data-driven, Fourth Industrial Revolution where both people and their devices, an Internet of Things (IoT) can flourish.

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

The advantages promised by Industry 4.0 Digital twin” machine design simulation, higher robotic intelligence, and complex motion are the essential tools here. Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors.

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

Augmented reality (AR) insights 5G was seen as a key enabler of digital transformation in enterprises and of the overall Industry 4.0 paradigm, but 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 The literature on enterprise AR within Industry 4.0 However, 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 AR within Industry 4.0

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Positioning for private 5G networks

Dinesh Mishra

Positioning is an essential driving force for new use cases in process automation, asset tracking and human-robot-collaboration across all industry verticals. In our 5G Bavaria Industry 4.0 Test Bed we successfully evaluated and combined our uplink TDOA and Intel FlexRAN.”

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Does Gen Z Hold the Key to Solving the UK’s Productivity Puzzle?

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But it is incumbent on the industry to make sure the younger generation is turned on to careers in engineering and robotics. According to ONS data , almost one fifth of all workers in the UK manufacturing industry is aged 55 or over. 23-year old Hara Konstantelia is a Technical Sales Support Engineer at FANUC UK.