Digitising the material world

Even in those most physical of industries - manufacturing and engineering - information technology is being deployed to change core business practices, and not just in the office

Denis Buckley, director; Tom Fitzgerald, Engineering and DfMA Manager; Tadhg O’Sullivan, design and scheduling manager and John Fitzgerald, produc

Denis Buckley, director at EPS Group with responsibility for design and manufacturing, wants to bring together the two worlds of the material and digital, using digital technologies to ‘disrupt’ traditional production techniques at the water and wastewater treatment group.

His educational background at the University of Limerick encompasses both: he read for a degree in manufacturing and engineering from 1994 to 1998, and then followed that up with a taught master’s degree in ...