Manufacturing

The 322 million euros contract will see TAS take the reins of Esa’s “dark explorer”, Euclid.

Euclid will launch in 2020 and look deep into the cosmos for clues to the nature of dark energy and dark matter. The TAS contract, which will be signed in the coming weeks, completes the sourcing of the two major elements that make up Euclid. A contract to build the payload module, which will hold the 1.2 million telescope and two instruments, has already been awarded to Europe's other big space company, Astrium.

While Neil Armstrong’s and Edwin Aldrin’s first footsteps on the moon in July, 1969, to this day remains one of the most iconic moments in human history, mankind’s fascination with space dates back to centuries beforehand.

No matter what corner of the planet you inhabit we all share the same amazement and wonder of the stars and planets above us. It is this wonder that has driven scientists and astronomers to try to gain an increasingly detailed understanding of the universe. In order to do so these experts strive to collect as much data and information as possible and one of the major ways of doing this is through the observations of the electromagnetic spectrum radiated by celestial sources.

Pre-tax annual profits for the vehicle-maker behind such iconic models as the E-Type rose 11 percent to £1.67 billion and helped temper a 36 percent fall in profits at the company's parent group, Tata Motors.

The results showed that total world sales at the company increased by 22 percent over the course of the year to almost 375,000 vehicles.

Total world sales at Jaguar Land Rover were up 22% to almost 375,000 vehicles in the financial year that it introduced an all-new version of the Range Rover, the Jaguar XF and XJ and the XF Sportbrake.

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an integrated business management process that was developed in the 1980s by Oliver Wight. In general terms, it refers to the decision-making processes involved in balancing supply and demand, creating profitable volume and mix propositions, and engaging in optimal asset management. Its scope is business-wide, integrating financial and operational planning, and linking board-level strategy to on-the-ground day to day operations.

Boosted by strong demand in the UK, registrations rose 1.8 percent to 1.08 million, compared to figures released at this time last year.

April’s increase is the first since September 2011, yet without UK sales, which were up 15 percent, registrations would have recorded another fall.

Demand for new cars across Europe fell to a 17-year low last year, with most economies weak, or in recession, and unemployment hitting record highs. For the first four months of 2013, overall volumes are down seven percent, compared with the same period a year ago.

Before he established Er-Bakir, A. Nuri Erikoglu had already forged his own reputation through the building of hand-crafted home purpose copper products including boilers, braisers and trays. A visionary in many ways, Erikoglu was one of very few individuals to foresee the future potential of copper. With this vision and his unique entrepreneurial spirit he would go on to create Er-Bakir with the mission of producing copper wire in electric cable, a product now used on a mass global scale in all areas of life.

The MTConnect standard facilitates data collection vital for meaningful analysis of machine tool behavior. In 2007, a group at the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) led by Paul Warndorf realized the need for a comprehensive standard to address the inability to collect data from manufacturing equipment. That was six years ago and various machine tool builders and controller manufacturers functioned as islands of automation, requiring proprietary methods to access their data.

Costing $1.3 billion to build, the news of the plant approval is a major boost for GM, coming at a time when it has expressed its interest to increase its share of the luxury car market in China. Currently dominated by Audi and BMW, this market has been steadily growing in recent years as people’s income levels have increased.