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ON THE FRONT COVER
To advance the research of Industrial Ethernet in moving
applications, Igus has now joined the PROFIBUS
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A HIGH RELIABILITY CHALLENGE
The design challenge in a new unscrambler system for plastic bottles: to achieve a
cycle of 200 containers per minute, whilst also ensuring high reliability and low
maintenance

MINIATURE MOTORS
BACK TO New generations of tattoo machines offer increased levels of flexibility, comfort and
performance for artists. Compact, lightweight, portable and increasingly battery
BUSINESS operated, these new tattoo machines can be used anywhere, at any location

06 How do you keep a factory running during the COVID-19 crisis? The 11 With skilled engineers in short supply, providing the next generation
with vocational hands-on training is essential. Stewart Goulding
main problem isn’t social distancing necessarily, but keeping the team
explains how apprenticeships are benefiting the engineering sector
motivated during the slowdown.
08 McKinsey and Company presented nine recovery scenarios to more 12 Covid plus Brexit could be one crisis too far for businesses. Many
firms are just clinging on during the coronavirus crisis and have no
than 2,000 executives from around the world in a recent survey,
seeking their views on the likelihood of each
capacity to contemplate failure in talks with the EU
10 The 22 leading industrial associations currently behind the Reshoring 16 As the manufacturing industry approaches a ‘new normal’, the
competitive landscape will see some changes, and those quick off the
UK initiative hope to see more emphasis put on reestablishing
mark may gain an advantage
production of critical parts in this country
CON

ELECTRIC CARS
While demand for conventionally
fuelled vehicles all but dried up during
the lockdown period, orders for
electric vehicles remained strong, and
commentators believe we may have
reached a tipping point

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