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Insights | Manufacture
Improving innovation in UK manufacturing
At Tharsus, we have established an industry leading reputation by creating strategic machines that drive business results and make our partners more competitive. Although the machines we produce often involve expertise in the fields of UK robotics and automation, we call them strategic machines – and not robots.
Insights | Manufacture
Automation by Tharsus. The future of autonomous vehicles
Here at Tharsus, we have long experience of manufacturing first of kind disruptive products. We know that speed to market is crucial. We know that first of kind products need a unique manufacturing approach. More importantly we know how to deliver this.
Insights | Design
Commercialise on tech disrupting innovations
At Tharsus, we have just begun a new and exciting journey. Commercialising innovation has always been a strength of the business. And now Tharsus is using its expertise to support a new generation of innovators through our tech disruptor workshops.
Insights | Design
We can lead the world. If we want to
Insights | Digital simulation
Transforming companies through digital innovation
Insights | Digital simulation
For data’s sake – start with the problem!
Using the right big data analytics tools can increase Tharsus’ efficiency and productivity. This value is passed on to our customers. And we’re not the only ones.
Insights | Digital simulation
Big data is big enough
Insights | Supply Chain
Supply chain disruption. The giant slayer
Supply chain disruption has, as we’re all too aware, shot to prominence in the media recently. It's timely, then, to share with you Tharsus' experts' insight into the ways supply chain problems can crop up and the exponential effect they can have on a business, before going on to talk about how we at Tharsus have developed ways of avoiding...
Insights | Design
Bump: Get Business Working Again During COVID
We know that social distancing is one the most important ways to slow down the spread of COVID-19, but it’s really hard to do well, especially at work where it’s absolutely vital. Today we’re announcing that some of the world’s biggest distributors, manufacturers and logistics companies are trialling ‘Bump’ – a new, cutting-edge technology system from Tharsus specifically designed to...
Meet the Grads – Episode 1
Meet three of our Graduate Engineers at Tharsus.
Insights | Article
Northumberland is coming
Imagine 17 businesses with a collective turnover of over £1.4 billion, employing nearly 7000 people. And growing all the time. It’s always good to end the year with some success.
Insights | Interview
Women! Engineering needs YOU!
Today, there are over 730,000 women in engineering in the UK. Sounds a lot, but it's actually only 12% of the UK engineering profession. This is puzzling when you learn a few facts.
Insights | Interview
Women in engineering – Stevie McLaughlin
So as we come to the end of 2019 we close our year-long Women in Engineering focus, we catch up with Stevie McLaughlin, one of our young engineers doing great things here at Tharsus.
Insights | Design
Technology, UK automation and mega trends
You don’t have to spend much time browsing the media these days to realise just about everything from the future of industry to the health of the human race- not to mention the health of the planet- is facing alarmingly steep challenges.
Insights | Article
Being an expert isn’t good enough
Insights | Article
Making a commercially successful product
Robotics is a new and immature sector so creating commercially successful products is a challenge. There isn’t a book on ‘how to do it’ – and we’re all still learning. So this talk is about the mutual sharing of battle scars. We don’t have all of the answers on how to create commercially successful products without risks, or even the...
Robots will create jobs – not steal them
History has proved time and time again that along with any technological advancement, new skills, new industries and new jobs are created as a result. So our concern should not be whether robots will take our jobs, but how do we prepare for their integration into the workplace and develop the new skills required to work with them?
Insights | Interview
Women in engineering: Christine Reid
Insights | Interview
Women in engineering: Isabela Santos
Isabela Santos has progressed in her journey at Tharsus, starting as a Quality Engineer to being our Business Excellence Manager. We caught up with her to find our how she became an Engineer and what she thinks about Women in Engineering.
Insights | Article
What is a Strategic Machine?
A Strategic Machine makes a strategic difference to our customers proposition, giving them commercial success through potentially game-changing ideas in sometimes, quite established industries. For example, robotics in food production, warehouse automation, and agricultural robots. What was our inspiration for helping customers create their Strategic Machines?
Insights | Prototype
What is FAT?
Factory acceptance testing (FAT) is the end process of a comprehensive control plan, each one product specific. Deployed for all products, this defines the process controls and measures taken to ensure each and every machine conforms to the performance and safety expectations of its design.
Insights | Article
What are advanced machines and robots?
AMRs, or advanced machines and robots are complex in design and manufacture and have the potential to revolutionise the way a business operates and disrupt industry sectors, through automating a traditionally human function to generate a far greater operational output.
Insights | Supply Chain
Synergy between design and supply chain functions ensures delivery
As we face the worst supply chain crisis in living memory, let's explore how our Design and Supply Chain teams are innovating together to ensure delivery of our customers' own innovations. At Tharsus, we support our customers’ product development journey at every stage of the lifecycle, from concept to manufacturable product. We've got everything under one roof and can take...
Insights | Design
What is innovation?
Innovation is the creation and implementation of solutions and ideas that result in new or improved products, systems or services. It’s a term used around the globe, and different nuances of innovation are used to differentiate all applications of the term.
Insights | Article
TMS. Because a QMS alone isn’t quality enough
Here at Tharsus we’ve developed our own approach to quality. We call it the Tharsus Management System or TMS. The TMS is the heart of everything we do. It brings our DNA to life- essentially what makes Tharsus, Tharsus. It cascades our strategy for the business through robust and agile processes to minimise potential risks to delivering it.
Insights | Article
Promoting efficiency in logistics
There is currently a network opportunity in the logistics supply chain. Put simply, no one owns the whole process so there's no real incentive for network efficiency. The result is that there is wasted activity being done by lots of individuals that they don't see because they don’t have a view of the entire network. For too many businesses, network...
