i4.0 today

JANUARY 25, 2024

About:Energy , a world-leading innovator in battery development software is launching ‘Formula Student: Drive to Recharge’, a new initiative to help address the UK’s battery skills gap and support the development of 1,500 battery engineers by 2030.

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SMMT

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“One of our key objectives when we purchased Wrightbus in 2019 was to bring the first UK manufactured hydrogen double decker bus to market. “We We have done this, with our Hydroliner buses now moving passengers every day in a number of cities across the UK, including here in Belfast.

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SMMT

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Belfast delivery specialist DMV Transport has acquired Northern Ireland’s first Renault Trucks Trafic Red Exclusive. DMV Transport will add the vehicle to its 15-strong van and truck fleet that delivers parcels up to pallets across Ireland, the UK and into Europe.

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E&T

JANUARY 13, 2023

According to The Telegraph, the group was able to get the p rinters at a Royal Mail distribution site near Belfast in Northern Ireland to start printing ransom notes that threatened to publish the stolen information online. The attack has been claimed by L ockBit, a hacker group widely thought to have close links to Russia.

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E&T

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The regulator has released a new report where it assessed performance for 16 of the largest UK airports over a seven-month period between 1 April and 31 October 2022. Only Aberdeen, Belfast International, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London City were rated as ‘very good’ for the whole period under review.

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E&T

JANUARY 10, 2023

There’s a host of other UK cities investing in smart projects too, including Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Hull, Manchester and London. Glasgow’s Future City project , for example, reported an impressive return of £144 million on an initial investment of £24 million after just four years. But what exactly makes a smart building smart?

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SMMT

JULY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, Mallusk, Northern Ireland-based Diamond Trucks UK opened its new approved Renault Trucks dealer site in Warrington, Cheshire, earlier this year. acre site on Howley Trade Park, Warrington, is close to Junction 9 of the M62 motorway, with excellent access to the M56 and M6, and onward routes across the UK and to Ireland.

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SMMT

JUNE 15, 2023

The schemes will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade, with funding awarded through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) Collaborative Research and Development programme. Project partners include Queens University Belfast, Grayson Thermal Systems, Hutchinson Engineering and Translink. A total of £38.4m

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E&T

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As well as the Edinburgh project, automated shuttles in Belfast and lorries in Sunderland will also get support. to develop a new, zero emissions, self-driving HGV with Asda and Belfast’s Project Harlander will get £11m to deploy a self-driving shuttle service around Belfast Harbour. The service, which will receive £10.4m

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E&T

JANUARY 10, 2023

After meeting in London, UK foreign secretary James Cleverly and European Commission vice president Maroš Šefčovič announced an agreement had been reached on the "way forward regarding the specific question of the EU's access to UK IT systems.".

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Media Release by Queen's University Belfast. There is a massive opportunity for AMIC to link at scale into UK-wide networks to support the manufacturing sector and through working in partnership with the newly formed Industry Board, we will deliver what is needed to reinvigorate Northern Ireland’s industrial potential.”. “The

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It is the Government’s vision that the UK will start seeing the deployments of commercially operating self-driving vehicles, improving the ways in which people and goods are moved across the nation. Projects are now underway in Belfast, Edinburgh, Sunderland,rategic Strategic Road Network, Coventry and Cambridge.

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SMMT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We have a comprehensive modelling tool, developed over the past 20 years in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast, that can accurately predict both range and total cost of ownership specific to each customer’s requirements. What export plans does Wrightbus have beyond the UK and Ireland market?

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The Guardian Manufacturing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Belfast shipbuilders famous for the Titanic suffer loss of revenues as it prepares for MoD contract Harland & Wolff has been hit by supply chain delays and order cuts worth at least £34m, in a blow for the owner of Belfast’s historic shipyard as it prepares to restart shipbuilding under a Ministry of Defence contract.

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