NEWS
NEWS
News and updates from the Innomech team
along with advice and industry commentary
NEWS
Integration of IT and OT in UK Manufacturing
Information technology and operational technology are not new concepts to manufacturing. Both play a role, and both have a function to perform. However, IT and OT convergence is a new way of thinking and operating. Helping to drive manufacturing forward, achieve...
How to Future-Proof Your Business with Automation
As we know, current manufacturing cannot be, and is most certainly not, business as usual. With ongoing market disruptions, supply chain challenges, and let’s not forget, the current recruitment crisis and difficulty in finding skilled workers, manufacturing is facing...
What’s Next For Manufacturing? – A Post-Election Update
In 2024, the manufacturing sector had very clear goals: to continue supporting economic stability and improve investment. And as we look back on Q1 and Q2, we can see a positive shift in business confidence in the sector and a boost in growth prospects. In addition,...
Bespoke Automation – Designing and Building a Machine That Is Yet to Exist
Automation in manufacturing is growing at a considerable pace. However, bespoke automation, i.e., designing and building a machine that is yet to exist, is an area less known to manufacturers, yet an area that can yield incredible results. And this is where GB...
GB Innomech Support for UK Manufacturing Automation
Manufacturing in the UK is robust. Built on years of industry experience, know-how, and people expertise. However, we also know that UK manufacturing has, and still is, to some extent struggling to compete on a global level, mainly due in part to its slow adoption of...
How to Know if You Should Invest in Automation
We can't deny, manufacturing today is challenging. The economy is currently operating below capacity, unemployment is high, and restrictions due to the pandemic are still apparent. In light of this current economic situation, a fresh wave of support for automation is...
How COVID-19 Created New Approaches to Manufacturing
Manufacturing has always been a resilient industry with the willpower to adapt to change over time and the determination and investment backing to modify processes after careful evaluation. However, when COVID-19 struck, everything changed. For manufacturers...
How The Manufacturing Industry Rose To The Challenge Of COVID-19
When COVID-19 hit, it hit people and businesses hard, and it hit us all fast. Suddenly, the world found itself thrown into turmoil with an immediate shortage of the items we needed most – hand sanitisers, face masks, plastic screening, and probably most importantly,...
Invest In Your Future With Automation
2021. The year in which the UK faces a truly uncertain Brexit and the continuation of the impact of COVID19. For businesses, this means looking ambitiously to the future and incorporating automation into strategic and business planning to ensure growth, success, and...
COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
Before COVID-19 was a thing, Innomech had been supporting the automation of manufacturing processes for 30 years, changing and adapting over time. During the pandemic, we've had to adapt even more. Over the last few months, the Innomech team has tried their best to...
The Realities of Scaling Up UK Manufacturing
Scaling up production. It’s a simple and straightforward term for a task that is often anything but simple and straightforward. Increasing production is a complex process that, in reality, means a lot more than just ‘producing more’. Automation and scaling up...
Good Project Management in Automated Manufacturing
Whether you’re making the decision to automate for the first time, or implementing automation for a new product line, project management is the key to a successful project. Project management is monitoring and managing a project to ensure completion on time and within...
How Has Automation Changed Manufacturing?
Automation is changing the way many industries work, and arguably it has had the most significant impact in manufacturing. While automation itself is nothing new, we’re in the middle of a period of rapid advances in automation. The growth of automation in...
The Relevance of Industry 4.0 After Lockdown
Industry 4.0 is a popular term to describe the digitisation of manufacturing - what is essentially the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s also a new way of working in manufacturing that encompasses the latest in digital technology. A crucial aspect of Industry 4.0 is...
Obstacles to Automation in the UK
While the UK adoption rate is roughly consistent with the global average, with 91 robot units for every 10,000 workers, we are still way behind the US and many European countries. For example, Germany has up to 338 robot units for every 10,000 workers. Automation is...
