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A team of apprentices from Niftylift in Milton Keynes has won the 2025 IMechE Apprentice Automation Challenge (AAC), marking the company’s second consecutive victory in the prestigious national competition. Now in its 11th year, the annual engineering competition has been steadily growing in popularity, with a record 17 apprentice teams joining to demonstrate a wide variety … [Read more...] about Milton Keynes apprentices take home national engineering award

The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that applications are now open for the 2026 MacRobert Award, the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious prize for engineering innovation. For more than 55 years, the MacRobert Award has honoured the best of UK engineering that demonstrates outstanding innovation, commerciality and societal benefit. Originally founded by … [Read more...] about Applications now open for the 2026 MacRobert Award

London-based global software company PTC has announced the release of a new artificial intelligence assistant for its Arena product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management system (QMS). The new innovation enables design and manufacturing teams to accelerate time to value, delivering real-time, context-aware expertise and best practices for PLM and QMS workflows in … [Read more...] about PTC launches Arena AI Assistant to accelerate product lifecycle management and quality

Contechs, a global automotive design and engineering specialist, has been crowned Best Nationwide Automotive Design and Engineering Consultancy 2025 at the SME News Midlands Enterprise Awards. Headquartered in the UK and operating globally, Contechs has built a reputation for helping some of the world’s most respected automotive brands bring the next generation of vehicles … [Read more...] about Contechs named Best Nationwide Automotive Design and Engineering Consultancy 2025

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) has released details of this year’s National Engineering Day, its annual celebration of the engineers and innovations that are shaping our lives. This year, National Engineering Day will be held on 5 November. This year’s theme is ‘re-engineering what it means to be an engineer’, helping the public think beyond hard hats and hi-vis … [Read more...] about National Engineering Day 2025