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Digital Catapult launChes latest inDustry Challenge leD aCCelerator
Digital Catapult has launched its latest Industry Challenge Led Accelerator, delivered through the UK Digital Twin Centre, to create a new route for businesses to accelerate the practical adoption of digital twins. Digital twins have the potential to
transform how organisations design, operate and maintain complex assets, but widespread adoption remains a challenge and many businesses struggle to identify and deploy high-value use cases. At the same time, SMEs often lack opportunities to demonstrate their technologies in real industrial environments, which can be a barrier to enabling many to scale and commercialise their solutions. Backed by Innovate UK, the accelerator
will support up to 12 UK SMEs, each receiving up to £75,000 to develop proof-of-concept solutions over the nine-month programme. Each SME will work with industry challenge
owners Artemis Technologies, BAE Systems, Thales, and Vertical Aerospace, to consider how deep tech innovations can be applied to the aerospace and defence sectors. Successful applicants will join a cohort
of high potential businesses and receive mentoring and technical consultancy from experts at Digital Catapult and the UK Digital Twin Centre, access to real-world expertise and insight from the industry challenge owners. Participating companies will have access to specialist facilities as part of the programme and will demonstrate their solutions at a public showcase to connect innovators with industry, investors and future customers, supporting the SMEs to scale. Dr Katrina Thompson, director, UK Digital
Twin Centre, said: “Digital twins have incredible potential to transform our economy, but practical adoption comes down to proving how they can solve real-world challenges.
altera corporation and rutronik announce strategic distribution agreement
Altera Corporation and Rutronik have announced a strategic distribution agreement to expand customer access to Altera’s FPGA portfolio across the European market. “The addition of Altera significantly strengthens Rutronik’s semiconductor portfolio and expands
our ability to support customers developing next-generation intelligent systems," said Reza Armin Maghdounieh, vice president product marketing semiconductors at Rutronik. “As FPGA technologies become increasingly critical for edge AI, industrial automation, machine vision, communications infrastructure, and high-performance embedded applications, customers require more than component availability. They need access to deep technical expertise, proven development platforms, and reliable supply chain execution. Through our partnership with Altera, we can deliver a comprehensive value proposition that helps customers shorten development cycles, optimise system performance, and accelerate time-to-market for innovative FPGA-based solutions.”
www.rutronik.com
delta electronics opens new ‘automation & robotics centre’ in stuttgart
Delta Electronics has opened an Automation & Robotics Centre in Stuttgart, Germany. This will serve as a dedicated customer experience, demonstration and collaboration hub, providing customers, partners and system integrators with the opportunity to explore Delta’s latest robotics technologies and intelligent automation solutions. At the centre, visitors will be able
to experience how Delta’s integrated robotics ecosystem helps manufacturers increase productivity, improve flexibility and accelerate their smart manufacturing journey, through live demonstrations and application showcases.
“The opening of our Automation & Robotics Centre marks another important milestone in
Delta’s long-term commitment to innovation and customer collaboration in Europe,” said Michael Mayer-Rosa, head of Intelligent Robot Systems at Delta Electronics EMEA. “By bringing our robotics technologies closer to customers, we can demonstrate how intelligent automation, advanced robotics and integrated manufacturing solutions enable companies to address today's production challenges while preparing for the factories of tomorrow.”
www.delta-emea.com 8 Design solutions september 2026
www.designsolutionsmag.co.uk
The newly founded TSUBAKI EUROPE HOLDINGS B.V. in Dordrecht, Netherlands, is bringing its European companies together under a joint umbrella. The core members of the new holding
company are TSUBAKIMOTO EUROPE (Dordrecht), TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP (Wenden-Gerlingen), MAYFRAN EUROPE (Landgraaf) and TSUBAKI JUNGBLUTH (Bad Hersfeld). In addition to this, the European TSUBAKI subsidiaries and the European KABELSCHLEPP and MAYFRAN subsidiaries, including the international companies in India and China, are also part of the new organisational structure. The objective of the new holding company
is to further harmonise collaboration between the European companies and to expand its organisational links. The restructuring will also be reflected in the brand identity, with a focus on the TSUBAKI umbrella brand, which will be much more visible as the company brand in the future. Well known brands such as KABELSCHLEPP or MAYFRAN are retained and will be continued as product brands.
https://tsubaki.eu/
We’re thrilled to partner with four key industry players to support innovative SMEs to test and validate ideas, prove the value of those ideas, and boost adoption to tackle a range of challenges in the maritime, aerospace and defence sectors in the UK.” The programme will support SMEs to
tackle a range of real-world challenges across the maritime, aerospace and defence sectors. These include improving object detection and collision avoidance for next generation vessels with Artemis Technologies; enhancing health monitoring and predictive maintenance for uncrewed vessels with Thales; improving the efficiency and safety of safety of aircraft flight testing with Vertical Aerospace; and developing digital twins to support aircraft system health monitoring, predictive maintenance and future fleet management with BAE Systems. SMEs from across the UK are invited
to apply to take part in the accelerator programme. Visit the website for details.
www.digicatapult.org.uk tsubaki europe holdings founded
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