With more advanced predictive maintenance tools at their disposal, today’s maintenance and operations teams can improve efficiencies and minimize unplanned downtime.

Few other industrial environments can match the diverse and difficult operating conditions found across the food and beverage processing industries, which can have an adverse impact on the machinery used on the factory floor and also on overall productivity.

Here at Radwell International, we are delighted to announce our shortlisting in three categories;  'SME of the Year', 'Business Growth & Strategy' and 'Innovation' in the prestigious Make UK Manufacturing Awards 2020. The Make UK Manufacturing Awards highlight the resilience, determination and ingenuity of the UK's manufacturing community. The awards are supported by their category partners; Catapult and Relayr and their regional event associate sponsors; E3R, Garth Thompson Wealth Management Limited and St. James's Place Wealth Management.   

Radwell International Ltd has been named as a finalists for 'International Shipper of the Year' and 'Rising Star of the Year' in the 2020 Logistics UK Awards. The awards, now in their fourth year, are the most prestigious in the sector which is at the heart of every part of the British economy and celebrates the companies and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the logistics and supply chain sectors. The 2020 awards headline sponsor is Port of Dover, and also sponsored by Brigade, Coolkit and Logistics UK Recovery Service.

A digital workforce reflects the evolution of technology within the modern workplace. This technology is central to the way we do business. As a result, many organisations already use elements of a digital workforce without realising.

Climate change is a leading concern for the British public. A recent YouGov poll found the environment is the third most important issue in the UK, ahead of both crime and the economy.

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way people live. Social distancing, face coverings, and remote working when possible are the new norms. Manufacturing, deemed an essential service, must forge on, finding new ways of working that balance the safety of workers with maintaining a production schedule to meet supply chain demands and sustain profits.

Manufacturers find themselves navigating the new normal of split team working, digital platforms, and remote working that can make worker connectivity and productivity challenging. There is a light at the end of the tunnel for manufacturers willing to embrace digital platforms and other technology designed to circumvent such issues.

People play a crucial role in the Smart Manufacturing transformation and culture is an important part of that. See some of the ingrained challenges companies face as well as ways to overcome them.

There is a required organizational culture change that goes along with the business process changes to assure the success of achieving high levels of transparency, threaded business processes, and integrated transactions in the value chain. This article focuses on managing the people dimension in the transformation.

One of the greatest challenges in terms of biological engineering is creating accurate and reliable artificial machine vision.

Sight is an important sense for living creatures. Our eyes give us seemingly infinite information about the world around us. One of the greatest challenges in terms of biological engineering is creating truly accurate and reliable artificial machine vision. This technology is rapidly developing, but human vision is still more efficient when all is said and done.

Robots-as-a-Service uses a cloud-based system which allows for easier requirement changes.

The intent behind these “as-a-service” implementations is to democratize the technology while lowering the barrier to entry for businesses, large and small alike. The “as-a-service” philosophy is becoming more prevalent in today’s working environment and is spreading to new aspects of work. One of those new arenas is robotics as a service (RaaS).