02/03/2020 Avoiding product development pitfalls Jeremy Carey, senior consultant and Alan Hart, head of business development at 42 Technology highlight the common traps that design engineers and entrepreneurs face when developing products.
28/01/2020 3D printed 3D printer represents another significant leap forward for the technology LumiBee is a unique mini 3D resin printer that uses a smartphone as a light source to polymerise the resin. The project is free for everyone who wants to create their own device at home. To create ... 1 comment
03/01/2020 Technology must be used more efficiently to design products that benefit society and to create better jobs There are big discrepancies in the reporting of how technology and automation will affect our futures, especially around jobs. The mainstream media tends to publish headlines that warn of automation ...
28/11/2019 Decoding with Diamond The UK’s national synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, in Oxfordshire is being used to ‘virtually unwrap’ a set of 2000-year-old scrolls that were buried and damaged by the eruption of ...
05/11/2019 Star quality With an array of top awards to show for what is still a relatively short career in engineering, Orla Murphy of Jaguar Land Rover shows no sign of losing any of her passion for the profession.
03/10/2019 Young engineers design the technological future for the Royal Marines Bionic ‘invisible’ commandos carried into battle on silent ‘flying wings’ while hologram decoys distract an enemy pounded by rail and laser guns.
03/09/2019 Digital Catalyst programme aims to help people to use powerful digital tools Autodesk’s digital catalyst programme started about four years ago, off the back off the company asking what it could do to make a difference to UK GDP, explains Asif Moghal, senior industry ...
30/07/2019 Égalité, fraternité, liberté, mobilité In its centenary year, Citroën is looking to the next 100 years by unveiling two radical concept car designs. Tom Austin-Morgan met Citroën’s design director Pierre Leclercq at Goodwood Festival of ...
03/07/2019 While his businesses may differ in terms of their technologies, Gary Livingstone ensures certain themes remain universal At first glance, the motto of LG Motion – ‘Put simply, we make things that go in and out, up and down, round and round’ could sound simplistic. However, it’s not only a good description of the ...
31/05/2019 Navigating the fast-moving world of materials requires expert help and advice Established in 1946, Goodfellow is a leading force in the UK and international materials market, offering more than 70,000 products. A key aspect of its success is its focus on research and ...
02/05/2019 When it comes to 3D printing, 3D Systems can say it’s been there from the beginning and is maintaining its head start It may seem strange to use the term ‘heritage’ in the context of 3D printing, since it is a relative baby compared to other engineering processes. However, if there is a company that can lay claim to ...
28/03/2019 Chemical etching metal components is an efficient effective means of achieving complex designs Given the level of attention it has received in recent years, one could be forgiven for thinking that 3D printing is the only realistic means by which it is possible to manufacture certain complex ...
26/02/2019 ABB’s involvement as the title sponsor of Formula E could truly affect the wider world In January 2018 ABB became the first ever title sponsor of an FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) motorsport series when it partnered with the all-electric racing series Formula E. This ...
04/02/2019 It takes more than money to overcome the ‘valley of death’ and one group’s business model offers a more complete solution The process whereby new business ideas secure funding to develop and grow is by now fairly well understood. In a simplistic televisual form, this process has come to be represented by the ‘Dragons’ ...
03/01/2019 Autodesk’s CEO explains how automation could change not just industries but entire cities “Automation is changing the very things we’re capable of making and how we make them.” These were the opening words of Autodesk CEO, Andrew Anagnost’s introduction to Autodesk University 2018. ...
14/12/2018 How will ergonomics enable the future of industrial automation? The scientific knowledge and methods used in ergonomics and human factors provides the ability to understand users, consumers and systems; to design new manufacturing technology, develop innovative ...
30/10/2018 Two of the biggest names in British engineering are working on R&D projects concurrently in the same building In an industry where change is slow and painstaking, any aircraft innovation is hot property. But by concentrating on protecting their IP, companies miss out on learning from each other and producing ...
09/10/2018 Designing for the ageing population The UK’s population is at its largest ever and is predicted to continue growing. With people living longer, what is being done to prepare for the day-to-day challenges this will pose?
06/09/2018 Optical metrology allows manufacturers to understand the entire surface of manufactured parts At the forefront when it comes to promoting the use of optical metrology is the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). Based at the University of Strathclyde, the AFRC is a globally-recognised ...
08/08/2018 Industry must forget the politics around Brexit and prepare now for the worst-case scenario “One problem you have right now is that you can’t predict the future any better than I can, but what you can do is prepare for it.” 1 comment
06/07/2018 Sharing the secret sauce NI sees itself as perfectly positioned in the world of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for electric and autonomous vehicles. Doug Farrell sat down with Tom Austin-Morgan at NIWeek in Austin, ...
11/06/2018 Question marks remain over electric vehicle batteries, so how is the technology looking? Increasingly, the electrification of vehicles is a reality. A few years ago, most people had never seen an electric vehicle. Today, hybrid vehicles are commonplace and most people have encountered – ... 1 comment
09/05/2018 Skills to pay the bills The revolution in UK vocational education brought about by the Sainsbury Review has meant the establishment of panels to shape so-called ‘T-Levels’. Eureka! talks to the man appointed to lead the ...
29/03/2018 Virtual reality is finding a multitude of uses, but how effective is it at generating revenue? There’s been a lot of talk around the novelty value of VR. Novel is good and VR creators across the world are continually rolling out ever more ingenious ways of bringing the medium to life for ...
07/03/2018 Industry 4.0 seems to confuse even the biggest of companies, so what does it all mean? Talk to any sales or marketing person and they will tell you that digitisation is vital. They will talk about visibility and business insight, the likes of which you can barely imagine. But, what ... 1 comment
Allan Cook, chariman, Atkins Semta is at the forefront of addressing the skills crisis and now there is a new man ...
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