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Insights | Round table
The Road to Net Zero
In a roundtable discussion held in the lead up to COP26, leaders from the manufacturing industry came together to discuss the key trends that will drive innovation to net zero.
Insights | Round table
How do we unlock innovation?
Designing the key to unlock innovation was the challenge posed to a group of senior manufacturing and technology leaders at the first in a series of Tharsus Engineer Progress roundtable discussions.
Insights | Digital simulation
We’re using Digital Technology to be better
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 | Round table
Introducing The Engineer Progress series
We are living through extraordinary times as the world shifts in response to a global pandemic, emerging technology, and fresh economic challenges. We’re bringing together senior leaders to share insights, respond to challenges, and explore the opportunities for closer collaboration that will engineer progress for society and the planet.
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
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 | 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 | 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...
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 | 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 | Design
We can lead the world. If we want to
Insights | Article
Derisking innovation in UK Manufacturing
Innovation is not just having ideas. It is about finding solutions to real challenges. As we look around us, we don’t have to look too far to see the challenges we face. The world is changing at the fastest pace it ever has in history – and, almost certainly, at the slowest pace it ever will again. While the UK...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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
