Oil & Gas

Cars rolling along the production line

Have your say on the most pressing issues facing UK manufacturing in 2020

Most sustainable companies The capacity of offshore windfarms nearly doubled over 2018. Among the new offshore wind farms was the Walney Extension, the largest offshore wind farm in the world - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Britain goes 114 continuous hours without using coal to generate electricity

Oil refinery factory - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Digital Transformation

IIoT is helping to build the ‘Refinery of the Future’

Utilising 3D printing to create jigs and fixtures - image courtesy of Formlabs

Replacing machined jigs and fixtures with 3D printing

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - MHI’s H-IIA launch vehicle completed its first 100% commercial mission in 2015 - image courtesy of MHI.

Digital Transformation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: From ships to satellites

A GE gas turbine under construction. Image courtesy of GE Power.

GE cuts 12,000 jobs as renewable energy hits business

Polluting factories in China are being shut down in an air quality crackdown. Image courtesy of Flickr - Leo Fung

China shuts down factories in pollution purge

Smart factories are set to improve productivity and labor cost hugely over the next 5 years - image courtesy of APS

Smart factories set to contribute up to £1.13 trillion to the global economy

Trump campaigned extensively on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Trump kills Manufacturing Council as CEOs pull out

Two sizes of bolt tensioners were produced - M120 and M150 – which were used to tighten the main bolts located around the clamp body - image courtesy of Boltight

UK innovation vital part of major Australian deep sea project

digital sensors pipeline oil gas pipe - image courtesy of Pixabay.

Industrial Data & AI

Digital sensors to help combat oil & gas pipe corrosion