Machinery is the UK's pre-eminent production engineering journal, drawing on a heritage of more than 100 years. It is a UK-focused news and features magazine & website concerned with manufacturing technology, its application, the people and companies who use it, those that supply it, plus associated issues.
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Design to manufacturing – the future is collaboration
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48:22Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Autodesk’s Jonathan Geffen about how the design-manufacturing engineering dynamic has changed in recent years; what role Fusion 360 can play in supporting a new collaborative way of working; the benefits of such a single, collaborative environment; why engineers should consider switching to the platform …
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Cobots in action at Unipart Manufacturing
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33:32In this edition, recorded on Wednesday, 24 June 2020, Machinery talks to Simon Stowe, planning engineer at Unipart Powertrain, Coventry, West Midlands, which is part of Unipart Manufacturing. We’ll be discussing how Universal Robots collaborative robots have been implemented across a number of processes, replacing previously manual tasks; how thei…
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SP Elements brings Universal Robots' cobots to Scotland, officially
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33:37Dundee-based SP Elements, a division of SP Automation & Robotics, is Scotland’s sole distributor of Universal Robots’ cobots. SP Automation & Robotics has over 30 years’ experience in automation, but this new venture is aiming at a new market. Based around its core product of Universal Robots’ cobots, SP Elements will bring automation to a wider au…
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Sheffield, the UK's cobot research/activity hot-spot
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36:10In this second episode of a four-part series sponsored by Universal Robots, Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Dr James Law, the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Robotics, one of the largest robotics research institutes in the UK, and the lead for Collaborative Robotics. James also holds a joint appointment betw…
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Machinery editor Andrew Allcock talks to Universal Robots' UK sales manager Mark Gray. They discuss the company’s history and technology; the UK industrial robot automation picture, with an emphasis on collaborative robots, so cobots, which are intended for work alongside and with people; what the barriers to cobot uptake have been and are; what UR…
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