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Safe exhibitons at The NEC
With exhibitions such as Advanced
Engineering returning later this year
and MACH in January of next year,
the host venue, The NEC, has posted
a video to explain how it is looking
to keep visitors and exhibitors safe.
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Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik
GmbH will now incorporate SPI Lasers
UK Ltd, which has been a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Trumpf
Group since 2008, making SPI
Lasers products available via Trumpf
sales channels. www.is.gd/acupev
A rst of its kind industry 4.0
factory is applying game-changing
digital technologies to advance
manufacturing on the UK’s nextgeneration
combat air system,
Tempest. www.is.gd/vupeyo
Lotus Cars’ steel and lightweight
structures businesses will be brought
together into one new, larger facility
with the creation of up to 125 new
jobs. www.is.gd/bihoju
£43 Aero Services Global Group
has made its latest acquisition, AMF
Precision Engineering, as it looks to
target new opportunities in the
defence and medical sectors.
www.is.gd/akehah
Leading e-bike manufacturer VOLT
has of cially opened the doors to its
new UK manufacturing facility in
Milton Keynes, realising an
expansion project that has been one
year in the making.
www.is.gd/pinebe
A manufacturing collective has
urged the government to make its
‘restart, reposition and transform’
commitment to industry a reality and
not just another marketing slogan.
www.is.gd/otepoz
Furloughed apprentices and
employees are being given the
opportunity to learn new skills,
thanks to a new package of support
from the Training and Manufacturing
Group (TMG). www.is.gd/pedeho
SME manufacturers across
England have been given a £6.5m
funding boost to help them recover
from the Covid-19 pandemic and
address key barriers to growth.
www.is.gd/ometog
Britain’s automotive industry is set
to bene t from a £73.5 million
government investment to
develop green
technologies and
safeguard jobs.
www.is.gd/
visoma
Made Smarter,
the movement
helping SMEs join
the Industry 4.0
revolution, has
reached a major milestone
having now funded more than 100
businesses. www.is.gd/acebew
A private 5G tesbed is to be
established in Scotland at a
pioneering R&D facility by a
consortium including The Scotland
5G Centre. www.is.gd/nomala
Ford and a consortium of partners
has won government backing for the
introduction of 5G to speed up
electric vehicle manufacturing.
www.is.gd/lugiha
The rst orbital
space ight from the UK
has come a step
closer, following the
Highland Council’s
decision to give the
go-ahead for the
Space Hub
Sutherland spaceport.
www.is.gd/zayone
A manufacturer of X-ray
protection equipment has halved
its lead times and reduced
production costs, following the
intervention of experts from the
Coventry-based Manufacturing
Technology Centre.
www.is.gd/ugaguq
Ventilator Challenge UK, the
manufacturing consortium
established to address an
anticipated shortage of ventilators
for treating Covid-19 patients, has
made its nal shipment.
Formed on 19 March in
response to the anticipated
escalation in Covid-19 cases, the
consortium of UK aerospace,
motorsport, automotive and
medical businesses has more than
doubled the UK’s stock of
ventilators by scaling up the
production of an existing system –
Smiths Group’s portable paraPac
ventilator – and a ventilator
adapted from anaesthesia
equipment produced by Oxfordshire
rm Penlon.
During the project, which was
led by High Value Manufacturing
Catapult chief executive Dick Elsy,
seven new large-scale
manufacturing facilities were
established from scratch at Airbus
AMRC Cymru in Broughton, Ford in
Dagenham, GKN Aerospace in
Luton and Cowes, McLaren in
Woking, Rolls-Royce in Filton and
STI in Hook.
The consortium also set up new
parallel supply chains and
acquired around 42 million parts
and electronic components through
a complex logistics network that
saw DHL design and implement an
end-to-end supply chain in only
1.5 weeks.
Despite global competition for
parts and lockdown challenges
during the pandemic, the team
sourced parts from over 22
countries, with the furthest
distance travelled by a single part
being 5,226 miles. Ventilator peak
production exceeded 400 devices
a day, with the shortest time taken
to achieve 1,000 ventilators being
three days.
Made Smarter and UK Research and Innovation have launched two
funding competitions for businesses to get together to develop worldleading
digital technologies to boost supply chain productivity and
resilience to “turbo-charge the Covid-19 recovery”. Businesses-led
consortia can bid for funds of up to £1.5m per project to transform supply
chains to help build a more ef cient, exible and resilient manufacturing
sector. The new cash stream from the government’s Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund (ISCF) aims to help companies rethink and restructure the
way they design and operate their supply chains. www.is.gd/uponir
Staff at Airbus in Broughton working
on critical parts for ventilators
Space Hub Sutherland
spaceport
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