£250,00 of new investment at prototype, production tooling and plastic injection moulding company, RP Technologies includes machining centres, a custom-built hot plate welding machine and mould simulation software.
The investment ties in with RP’s ongoing growth and expansion plans and will increase the capacity and productivity in its West Midlands based facility, with additional services expanding its offering.
Ireland’s aerospace and aviation industry is now worth over €4.1bn to the Irish economy and growing faster than ever says Enterprise Ireland.
To put Ireland’s success into context, Irish lessors manage €80 billion in assets worldwide and today there are more than 250 companies actively involved in the aerospace, aviation and space sectors, providing employment for approximately 42,000 full-time workers.
The UK’s manufacturing output hit its highest levels in ten years at the start of 2018. The nation’s headlines hailed this as a sign industry has turned a corner and put the economic crisis in the past. Rob McDermott, purchasing manager for steering system manufacturer Pailton Engineering, explains why this is the ideal time to assess your supply chain.
Online visitor registration is now open for Subcon, the contract and subcontract manufacturing exhibition, which takes place from 5-7 June 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.
More than 4,500 visitors from aerospace, automotive, defence, electronics, energy, materials, oil and gas and rail sectors are expected to attend and will be able to do business with over 400 exhibitors.
The event will present both British manufacturers and international suppliers.
Engineers at Hampshire company Blue Diamond have identified the propensity of customers to spend thousands of pounds, unnecessarily, on the manufacture of handed products i.e. right- and left-hand versions of the same part.
Careful consideration of the ‘design for manufacture’ aspects of these products provides the opportunity to reduce cost dramatically – customers should not be obliged to order equal quantities of left hand and right hand products when they are not needed, just because it’s not economical to set-up for smaller productions runs.