additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is an ace card

Posted by: Robin Wilson, Posted on: 21 September 2017 - Categories: Manufacturing and materials

Unless they adopt additive manufacturing by 2025, British companies will not be winners in the global high-value manufacturing race

Finishing the job – solving 3D printing’s biggest problem

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 7 September 2017 - Categories: high value manufacturing, Manufacturing and materials

Having come from the aerospace industry I was intrigued to understand why 3D printing was not used more extensively in aerospace. We found out that one of the big challenges facing 3D printing was surface finishing consumer facing parts on …

What does the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) mean for UK business?

Posted by: Lynne McGregor, Posted on: 28 March 2017 - Categories: Business advice, Connecting, high value manufacturing, Manufacturing and materials

Britain was the birthplace of the first industrial revolution. It also: led the second - technological industrial revolution was an early adopter of the third - automation-driven industrial revolution is now readying itself to adopt and adapt to the fourth …