Latest Machinestools Podcast Episodes

Design to manufacturing – the future is collaboration

Machinery Magazine UK Podcast - October 06, 2020 03:00 - 48 minutes
Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Autodesk’s Jonathan Geffen about how the design-manufacturing engineering dynamic has changed in recent years; what role Fusion 360 can play in supporting a new collaborative way of working; the benefits of such a single, collaborative environment; wh...

Cobots in action at Unipart Manufacturing

Machinery Magazine UK Podcast - June 30, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes
​In this edition, recorded on Wednesday, 24 June 2020, Machinery talks to Simon Stowe, planning engineer at Unipart Powertrain, Coventry, West Midlands, which is part of Unipart Manufacturing. We’ll be discussing how Universal Robots collaborative robots have been implemented across a number o...

SP Elements brings Universal Robots' cobots to Scotland, officially

Machinery Magazine UK Podcast - June 23, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes
Dundee-based SP Elements, a division of SP Automation & Robotics, is Scotland’s sole distributor of Universal Robots’ cobots. SP Automation & Robotics has over 30 years’ experience in automation, but this new venture is aiming at a new market. Based around its core product of Universal Robots’ c...

Sheffield, the UK's cobot research/activity hot-spot

Machinery Magazine UK Podcast - June 16, 2020 09:08 - 36 minutes
​In this second episode of a four-part series sponsored by Universal Robots, Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Dr James Law, the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Robotics, one of the largest robotics research institutes in the UK, and the lead for Collaborati...

Why should I consider using cobots?

Machinery Magazine UK Podcast - June 09, 2020 07:30 - 29 minutes
Machinery editor Andrew Allcock talks to Universal Robots' UK sales manager Mark Gray. They discuss the company’s history and technology; the UK industrial robot automation picture, with an emphasis on collaborative robots, so cobots, which are intended for work alongside and with people; what...