NEWS
NEWS
News and updates from the Innomech team
along with advice and industry commentary
NEWS
Unlocking smarter manufacturing: The role of data-driven automation
Data is transforming how manufacturers approach automation. Using real-time data to build bespoke automation systems that allow for better decision making, reduce downtime, and boost efficiency across the production line is what manufacturers across all sectors are...
How Bespoke Automation Enables More Sustainable Product and Component Manufacturing
While the spotlight often falls on the sustainability of the final product, what we sometimes fail to consider is the systems and components that we use to make the products and the vital role they play in building this sustainability. From improving material...
Custom Automation Solutions: Tailoring Technology to Your Needs
Custom automation proves that technology doesn’t come as a one-size-fits-all solution, and rightly so. We need technology to work for us, to meet our specific business requirements, and to allow businesses to adapt quickly and perform better. Automation technology 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...
British Manufacturing has Always Stepped Up in Times of National Need
There are many heroes in the battle against COVID-19: NHS workers, care workers, teachers, supermarket workers, and so many more who are providing vital public services that allow people to stay safe and comfortable at home. Manufacturers have also been called upon to...
Is Now The Time To Automate Your Manufacturing?
For many product-based businesses, automation is the key to business growth. When you automate your manufacturing, it allows you to increase increase output and productivity while lowering operating costs and improving quality. If your business has a lot of repetitive...
Top Tips for Automation
There are plenty of reasons to consider automation in your product-based business. One of the toughest challenges in bringing innovative products to market is bridging the gap between proof of concept and volume manufacture. It’s especially challenging for early-stage...
