Recent wildfires in Maui and California exposed critical communication challenges in disaster response, as damaged infrastructure and difficult conditions disrupted coordination on the ground. In these scenarios, effective response depends not only on transmitting information, but on ensuring it is clearly heard and shared across multiple relief organisations often operating in noisy environments with limited…

New research has shown the huge impact the ongoing Iran war is having on businesses across the Midlands. The research – carried out by the Black Country Chamber of Commerce alongside the Greater Birmingham, Coventry, Warwickshire and East Midlands chambers – reveals 80 per cent of businesses have seen costs increase because of the conflict.…

There is a tendency in the UK to focus on the challenges facing manufacturing and engineering. Skills shortages, global competition, rising costs, and investment pressures often dominate industry conversations, leaving many of the sector’s success stories hidden from view. Yet spend a day at Advanced Engineering and a different picture begins to emerge. When Guy…

PTC has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for PLM Software in Discrete Manufacturing Industries for its Windchill® product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, and a Visionary for its Arena® product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management system (QMS) solution. With Windchill, PTC is positioned highest on the “Ability to Execute” evaluation…

Resolve Optics is a leading supplier of designed-for-purpose Military lenses that offer much higher life expectancy than regular commercial grade lenses. Producing a lens / lens system for military use requires careful consideration of its resistance to vibration, shock, temperature and water ingress in addition to ensuring high reliability and top performance. The benefits of sourcing a designed for purpose…

(Melbourne, Australia, July 23rd 2026) Additive Assurance, a provider of quality assurance solutions for metal powder bed fusion, has entered a domestic distributorship agreement with NTT DATA XAM Technologies Corp. (XAM) to launch its real-time quality assurance solution, AMiRIS, in the Japanese market. Through this agreement, Additive Assurance aims to resolve quality assurance and mass…

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) and Sheffield Forgemasters welcomed invited lifting professionals to each of their South Yorkshire, UK facilities earlier this month (8 July) for a special event that showcased an innovative safer lifting operations project. The discovery day was held at RSS’s Rotherham depot, but a highlight was a site visit to…

AFRL-SUPPORTED RESEARCH VALIDATES PANX THERMOMECHANICAL SIMULATION FOR CREATING DIGITAL TWINS OF ENTIRE BUILD VOLUMES IN METAL AM PanOptimization has welcomed the publication of Air Force Research Laboratory-supported research that validates the use of PanX thermomechanical simulation for simulating entire build volumes in metal additive manufacturing (AM). The paper, entitled “Part scale prediction of residual stress…

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) has combined with Gemmak Engineering Ltd. to provide a bespoke steel gantry system, which is installed in a basement-level plantroom at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot facility, one of the UK’s largest and most significant steel manufacturing sites. RSS and Gemmak, which serves as the manufacturing division within the company’s…