British Automation & Robot Association (BARA) has formally announced the launch of the UK’s first robot integrators’ certification scheme in association with leading US trade body, Robot Industries Association (RIA).
Following the launch of a £20 million North West pilot before Christmas, the manufacturers’ organisation Make UK (formerly EEF) has called on the Chancellor Philip Hammond MP to increase investment in the Made Smarter business support programme and roll it out nationally as early as this year.
Manufacturing output growth slowed in the quarter to February, while order books improved slightly, according to the latest monthly CBI Industrial Trends Survey.
New Siemens suppliers must comply with minimum binding cybersecurity requirements, which will be introduced step-by-step starting on February 15, 2019, and anchored in a separate, binding clause in all new contracts. These requirements will apply primarily to suppliers of security-critical components such as software, processors and electronic components for certain types of control units.
