Since opening in 1996 Caterpillar’s Stockton plant has been responsible for producing the key fabrications that go towards assembling its F Series Backhoe Loader product built in Leicester. A new automated conveyor system installed by CI Logistics has improved......

Clitheroe Light Engineering, a family run contract machinist employing 35 staff, has invested £1.4 million in a second flexible manufacturing system (FMS) at its factory in Clitheroe, Lancashire, to cope with continuing high levels of business growth. Solutions......

A strategic initiative to use more robots in its production processes is helping to boost the fortunes of a Midlands precision aluminium diecasting business....

With confidence now returning to the UK’s manufacturing sector and robot sales once again on the increase, it’s clear that forward thinking companies are taking advantage of the benefits that automation brings in reducing manufacturing costs, improving......

At a recent event held at ABB Robotics in Milton Keynes, representatives from the company as well as system integrator Neuteq made the case for robotic automation and how it offers cost and productivity benefits for all kinds of applications. Simon Lott reports....

A contract machinist in the Midlands has been enjoying the benefits of flexible manufacture since 2005, when it installed a Fastems store to house thirty 630mm machine pallets and deliver them automatically to a pair of Mori Seiki horizontal machining centres (HMC). A......

The largest manufacturer of mechanical seals in the UK, Aesseal, has installed an automated, double tower system at its Rotherham factory to store stainless steel and superalloy bar, tube and billet in a compact footprint....

A Black Country foundry has boosted the efficiency of a key production process by investing in a Kuka robot to help transform a time consuming, labour intensive operation....