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IMH invests in
future talent
Industrial and Marine
Hydraulics (IMH) has
appointed two new apprentice
trainees at its head office on
Teesside.
Luke Morris (pipefitter) and
Hugo Abrol (mechanical fitter)
have joined IMH’s four-year
apprenticeship programme.
Headquartered in
Middlesbrough, IMH delivers
major hydraulic engineering
projects and offers services
across design, manufacturing,
installation, commissioning,
maintenance and repairs, as
well as component supplies
and training. The company
is nurturing hydraulic
engineering talent on Teesside
through its investment in a
long-running apprenticeship
programme and commitment
to skills development among
young people.
Through IMH’s four-year
apprenticeship programme,
Luke and Hugo will gain
practical skills in pipefitting,
fabrication, welding and
hydraulic engineering, as
well as working towards a
recognised NVQ Level 3.
Trainee mechanical and
hydraulic engineer Hugo
says: “I’m delighted to be part
of the IMH apprenticeship
programme as I’m able to work
and learn at the same time.
“I love seeing how
something works – taking
it apart and putting it back
together again, or if it’s
broken then trying to fix it. The
programme with IMH gives me
the opportunity to get practical
hands-on-experience in the
company’s training lab, and
also working with parts, pumps
and valves."
Radius acquires Plant-i
Crewe-based Radius Payment Solutions, the group behind the telematics
and fuel card brands Kinesis and UK Fuels, has acquired Plant-i, a Welshbased
provider of tracking and telemetry solutions to the plant and
construction sectors.
HP and Siemens deepen AM Alliance
to advance digital manufacturing
HP and Siemens have announced an
expansion of their strategic alliance to help
customers transform their businesses with
industrial additive manufacturing (AM).
The two companies will expand their
integrated AM solution, incorporating new
systems and software innovations, including
overall product lifecycle management (PLM),
AM factory optimisation, industrial 3D
printing and data intelligence, manufacturing
execution, and performance analytics.
The integration of HP's new Jet Fusion
5200 Series 3D printing solution with
Siemens' Digital Enterprise offerings will
enable industrial companies to bring 3D
printed parts to market faster, more costeffectively,
more sustainably, and at higher
volumes than before.
The companies announced the expanded
alliance at an event to celebrate the addition
of a new Polymer Competency Center to the
Siemens Additive Manufacturing Experience
Center (AMEC) in Erlangen, Germany,
where HP also unveiled its new industrialperformance
HP Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D
printing solution.
"We are excited to expand our
collaboration with HP. Innovative partnerships
and cutting-edge technologies such as
additive manufacturing are essential for the
digital transformation of companies across
industries," said Klaus Helmrich, member of
the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO
of Digital Industries. "Siemens and HP are
thinking ahead to the future and are bringing
together the best from both companies in a
complete, industry-specific solution that will
accelerate the adoption of industrial additive
manufacturing and help our customers to
increase flexibility, efficiency, and speed of
digital manufacturing."
The expanded AM solution from Siemens
and HP integrates hardware, software,
data intelligence, and services to optimise
the efficiency of the entire manufacturing
process, from design and simulation through
production planning, execution, quality,
and control. This integrated, closed-loop
environment streamlines every phase of
designing and 3D printing serialised parts
– with greater scale, higher quality, and less
waste.
Schaeffler & Mitsubishi Electric partner
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Schaeffler
Technologies AG & Co. KG have announced a
global strategic partnership as part of the
e-F@ctory Alliance network.
The e-F@ctory Concept aims to support
companies with measures within the framework
of digital transformation, such as the integration
of machine and plant data into manufacturing
execution systems and enterprise resource
planning systems.
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