Manufacturing and engineering, and COVID-19.
Our current stance on the Coronavirus Situation Just a week ago our world looked very different. This week we’re in the midst of one of the biggest health crises the world has ever seen. We have been thinking long and hard about how we respond to this awful situation. One of the serious concerns right […]
What is a Bowl Feeder?
A bowl feeder, or a bowl feeding system, is an accurate and efficient tool for sorting, ordering and orienting components and delivering them into a manufacturing or packing process at a specific feed rate. Bowl Feeders are typically positioned at the start of a manufacturing process, an operator places a number of parts into a […]
What is a Pin Clamp?
Used across automated manufacturing lines, pin clamps are precise tools for simultaneously positioning and securing components. Learn more about how these robust pneumatic clamps work and where they’re used. A pin clamp, also referred to as a pneumatic pull-down clamp or an underbody clamp, is a clamping and centring device with a pin, ranging in […]
Scottish manufacturing jobs, nuclear fusion, remarkable batteries and Tesla’s Chinese ambitions
Diodes saves 300 jobs at Greenock’s ex-Texas Instruments facility As reported by the Herald Scotland, the massive US firm Diodes is planning to invest £47 million to upgrade the Greenock-based semiconductor manufacturing plant it bought from Texas Instruments in 2019. The plan is to transform it into a facility to develop sophisticated microchips, and they’re taking […]
What is a Toggle Clamp?
What is a Toggle Clamp? Sandfield Engineering are one of the UK’s leading toggle clamp suppliers, so who better to answer the question – What is a toggle clamp? A toggle clamp is a tool that you use to securely locate components or parts in position, typically, but not exclusively, as part of a production […]
Japanese loo tech hits the UK, recruitment issues, Scottish manufacturing
At long last Japanese toilet tech makes an impact in the UK According to The Engineer, one of the biggest cultural gaps between Britain and Japan – the technologies we apply to our toilets – is about to start closing as Japanese innovations finally start to arrive on our shores. Japan’s electronic toilets are quite […]
60 years of the Mini
OK, this is more of a reminisce rather than a case study but hopefully, you won’t mind indulging me a little. 2019 has been a momentous year for the Mini, celebrating their 50th year in production and producing their ten millionth car. At Sandfield Engineering it blows our minds to think that we were involved […]
Retractable Locators
Anybody involved in the manufacture of tooling will know how challenging it can be to make a retractable location unit when time, budget and space are at a premium! Making an accurate retractable location unit can be a costly and time-consuming task and the end result can be a chunky two-piece unit. Sandfield have developed […]