RENISHAW HOSTS UK PM AND CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
RENISHAW HOSTS UK PM AND CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Renishaw annually invests between 13 and 18 per cent
of revenues in R&D and engineering, generating a high level of patents for products which are p manufactured for overseasmarkets. For
year ending June 2016, some 95 per cent of sales were due to exports and yet themajority of the company’s manufacturing is carried out in the UK at its sites in Gloucestershire and SouthWales.
he PrimeMinister TheresaMay and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond visited Renishaw’s headquarters site near Wotton-under-Edge in
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Gloucestershire in November for a tour of the company’s main research and development facilities. Following a meeting with senior Renishaw directors, the Prime Minister and Chancellor toured the company’s Innovation Centre where they witnessed new technology
developments in the fields of precisionmeasurement, metal 3D printing and healthcare.
The visit came in the week that the PrimeMinister announced the first steps in a new Industrial Strategy for the UK that will include a long-termcommitment to research and innovation, in cluding an increase in government investment worth £2 billion per year by 2020 for R&D and a new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to back priority techn ologies including robotics.
Sir DavidMcMurtry, Renishaw’s chairman and chief executive, said: “It was a pleasure to host the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer and to be able to show themhow a long-termcommitment to research and development, backed up by large investments in manufacturing,marketing and skills development, ha s enabled Renishaw to sustain success for over 40 years. During their tour the Prime Minister and Chancellor were shown how Renishaw technology is being applied to exciting new applications in healthcare, including neurosurgery, dentistry and custom medical devices for facial reconstructive surgery. They also met apprentices and recent graduates, representing the company’s record 129 apprentices currently in training and an inta C
hancellor, Philip Hammond said: “Thi ke of 65 graduates in 2016.
wants to build upon Britain’s strength in
technology and s government
en gineering.We highly value research an d development and that’s why the Autumn Statement included over £4.7 billion of newmoney to ensure the next generation of dis coveries ismade, developed and produced in Britain.”
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UNIVERSAL ‘COBOTS’ BOOSTED BY LATEST ROBOT PROGRAMMING ARUK Automation, which offers
The ArtiMinds RPS (Robot
the Universal Robots series of collaborative robots (‘cobots’) and Robotiq grippers in the UK market, has agreed a complementary partnership with German-based ArtiMinds Robotics. ArtiMinds has put the latest technologies in
machine learning, motion planning and motion control for robotic
manipulation into a robust software package that is fully compatible with Universal Robots and Robotiq force torque sensors. As a result, the new collaboration extends the potential of robotics even further for UK automation users .
Programming Suite) is an offline programming package that works with all popular CAD packages. It offers fast and easy set-up of Universal Robots without the
requirement for expert knowledge. In an independent external benchmark test, a typical force-controlled robot task was programmed in five minutes instead of days using a conventional solution.
The software is designed to work directly with CAD systems, thus allowing users to import their applications as a solidmodel and programoffline. The Universal Robot
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and Robotiq gripper are already drawn in the package. As a result, ArtiMindsmakes it possible to have a 3D representation of the full
application, complete with robot and gripper. The principal benefit is the visualisation of programming tasks and process simulation formotion optimisation and collision avoidance.
ABB ROBOTICS REFURBI HESMILTON KEYNES TRAI A £ m
250k in upgrading its invested over
uriga House in Milton K training facility at
otivated by a demand eynes. Partly
for training on the latest advances in robot
technology, the training centre now features the latest generation of robots and controllers to prepare UK manufacturers for the smart factory era.
Preparing the UK for the emerging digital landscape is a priority for ABB Robotics. It strongly believes in the need to equip workers with the skills needed for an automated future in order for the UK to be able to compete on a global scale. Smart factories need employees who are fully trained to programme, operate
ABB ROBOTICS REFURBISHES MILTON KEYNES TRAINING CENTRE BB Robotics has
RA NING CENTRE and evaluate the performance of the advanced
technologies in order to use themto their full potential. The training centre upgrades reflect ABB Robotics’ ongoing drive to reduce the barriers to adoption of robot technology, with a 2013 study showing a lack of skills andmaintenance issues as themain concerns holding UKmanufacturers back. The additions to the training centre aimto provide a fully comprehensive experience so that all students are confident of their abilities on course completion and ready to integrate robot technology on their own shop floors.
In addition, the training courses that are available have been expanded with the Integrator course students how to set up and install a robot box.’ Another course added to the portfol
io is the YuMi ‘out of the showing
course which covers the key elements of installing the collaborative robot into a production cell.
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The UK Industrial Vision Association (U VA has deve oped a brand new event for the ievent for the imaging industry in the UK. The first ever UKIVA Machine Vision Conference & Exhibition will take place at ArenaMK i Keynes on 27 Apr 2017.
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