Published: 29th July 2024, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Unfortunately it has been announced that we were unsuccessful with our application to seek funding from the Santander Entrepreneurship Fund to support the training of our new Apprentice.

Published: 8th April 2024, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We publish the new Royalty-Free IPC-2591 logo for the community

Published: 24th January 2024, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We were told not to use the IPC-2591 logo for the Connected Factory Exchange so we have created a new Royalty-Free one for CFX-2591

Published: 31st January 2024, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We Mourn the loss of an Industry Visionary Michael Ford

Published: 24th January 2024, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We take a jolly to Barcelona to attend a IPC-2591 meeting

Published: 14th December 2023, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We question whether this could lead to Arch Systems acquiring Aegis Software?

Published: 8th August 2023, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

R&D funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund has been secured for the development of the SMEMA CFX Adaptor.

Joe joined us for a week of Work Experience as a Software Developer during May 2023. This is his blog of the week touring Electronic Manufacturing factories and the Software Development of the MultiPlug.Ext.FileImporter MultiPlug Extension.

Published: 14th February 2023, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We attended IPC APEX EXPO 2023 in San Diego and there was great interest in the SMEMA Ethernet Adaptor.

Published: 6th September 2022, Bournemouth, England.

We get the question everyone has been asking and the future looks promising.

Published: 25th August 2022, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Our SMEMA Hermes Adaptor is nominated for a Make UK Innovation Award

Published: 7th July 2022, Bournemouth, England.

Flex Ltd has joined a number of Contract Manufacturers that have shown interest in deploying the SMEMA Hermes Adaptor within their electronics manufacturing facilities.

Published: 20th June 2022, Bournemouth, England.

Markus Mittermair of Rehm Thermal Systems becomes the new chair of The Hermes Standard Initiative

Published: 13th June 2022, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Siemens acquires predictive maintenance business Senseye

Published: 6th June 2022, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

David Graham is nominated for Bournemouth University Alumni of the Year 2022

Published: 30th May 2022, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

SICK has released their Hermes SMEMA Connect, a device to convert Hermes messages to SMEMA signals and back again.

Published: 8th November 2021, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

R&D funding from the Dorset Growth Hub has been secured for the development of the SMEMA Ethernet Adaptor.

Published: 16th March 2021, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Dürr iTAC Software acquires Cogiscan. What does this mean for Electronic Assembly Industry 4.0?

Published: 15th March 2020, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Philip Stoten: The Interviewer becomes the Interviewee on the Reliability Matters Podcast

Published: 7th September 2019, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We secure a R&D funding from the European Structural Investment Fund.

Published: 12th April 2019, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

We are now calling on the manufacturing community to join forces in creating some collaborative Industry 4.0 solutions.

Published: 14th February 2019, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

The Eric Miscoll Show discusses the Silver Tsunami within Electronic Assembly.

Published: 2nd July 2018, Upton, Dorset, England.

CFX, the Connected Factory Exchange is demonstrated at a Europlacer Open Day.

Published: 4th June 2018, Bournemouth, England.

The achievements of INDUSTRY4.UK in 18 months.

Published: 4th June 2018, Bournemouth, England.

Reflecting on the Startup journey of INDUSTRY4.UK over the last 18 months.

Published: 20th November 2017, Bournemouth, England.

Our CTO concludes his findings of attending the Smart Factory Expo in Liverpool, UK.

Published: 23rd October 2017, Bournemouth, England.

INDUSTRY4.UK is featured in a article about Startups in the Bournemouth Echo.

Published: 30th April 2017, Bournemouth, England.

A consortium of SMT manufacturing equipment vendors release The Hermes Standard to replace SMEMA.

Published: 28th April 2017, Bournemouth, England.

Julian Singh steps down as Business Development Manager.

Published: 21st April 2017, Bournemouth, England.

Our CTO David Graham talks to Steve Harris on BBC Radio about Industry 4.0 and Bournemouth's Silicon South

Published: 19th December 2016, Bournemouth, England.

Supporting the movement to create common Industry 4.0 data standards, INDUSTRY4.UK today becomes a development partner within the Open Manufacturing Language (OML) community.

Published: 5th September 2016, Bournemouth, England.

INDUSTRY4.UK are pleased to announce that we shall be participating in the 2016 First Bourne Accelerator based at the Telecom House building in Holdenhurst Road.

Blog published 19th April 2016, Bournemouth, England.

Our Software Architect David Graham describes his experiences of Productronica in Munich, Germany as well as reflecting on the history of software within the SMT manufacturing industry. He concludes on whether machine builders are Industry 4.0 Ready and how they can facilitate the progression toward open data interfaces.