Yesterday, Birmingham, the UK’s second largest city, was the scene of an important event that will help shape the nation’s economic recovery. In a much smaller venue, far from the media scrum at the city’s University*, a group of staff and members from the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) met to make final decisions on the forthcoming MACH 2010 exhibition - the UK’s largest manufacturing technologies show which starts on June 7th.
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View from the Mill - April 2010 ArchiveToday’s menu – Big MACH 2010Making an exhibition of ourselves
Posted 26th Apr 2010
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mach 2010, exhibitions, marc saunders, mike excell, metalworking production
When thinking about trade exhibitions, I am often reminded of the famous quote attributed to Mark Twain; ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’. For sure, many industrial events have suffered in recent years and some have indeed been subject to obituaries, but this has often been as much about the failure of organisers to adapt their product to the changing business and communications landscape, as it is about the inexorable rise of the web as the perceived primary source of information. It’s showtimeIt’s very much exhibition season, with a real smorgasbord of trade shows being attended over the next few weeks by our various Subsidiaries around the world in sectors as diverse as motion control, dentistry, machine tools and magnetic resonance in medicine. R&D - In for the long haulWe were recently approached by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to comment on Renishaw’s experiences of working with Universities on research projects. The following is an edited version of the response given by Geoff McFarland (image right), our Group Engineering Director: As seen on the world’s finest machine tools
Posted 16th Apr 2010
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innovation, gildemeister, dmg, haas, okuma, siemens, mazak, machine tool, awards
We were recently delighted to receive a Supplier of the Year award for ‘Innovation’ from Gildemeister AG, one of the World’s largest machine tool companies, and best known for its DMG brand. Build a better mousetrapIt seems that rodents are becoming something of a theme in our posts, whether dwarf hamsters or robot mice, but as they apparently constitute more than a third of all living mammals, then perhaps not entirely surprising. However, what better way to put an end to this literary outbreak of small four-legged creatures than a simple mousetrap? Is it hyetal where you are?The British are world renowned for talking about the weather, but then like Melbourne in Australia (which is famous as the City which often gets four seasons in one day) we get a lot more climatic variation than most. It is also often said that if we didn’t have such weather then as a nation what would we talk about? Sign up to get the latest blog content sent to you for free! |