24/03/2021 BEEAs Winners: Dynamic Load Monitoring The Small Company of the Year is a specialist in the design, manufacture, repair and calibration of load cells and load monitoring equipment.
22/03/2021 BEEAs Winners: Precision Acoustics The winner of the Design Team of the Year Award was Precision Acoustics for its ReDRESS project.
05/03/2021 Monitoring offers AM traceability The use of in-process monitoring (IPM) in a new additive manufacturing system promises greatly improved traceability.
14/07/2020 Graphene goes nuclear A UK-based company’s development of a graphene sensor has led directly to a working partnership with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
10/06/2020 Tharsus develops Bump social distancing technology ?Tharsus, one of the UK’s most advanced robotics companies, has announced the development of ‘Bump’ – a new, cutting-edge technology system specifically designed to help keep people safe in the ...
11/05/2020 Sensors keep things on track Laser triangulation sensors are being used to measure the lateral position of rail bogie wheels relative to the rail head in a ground-breaking rail traction technology project.
08/04/2020 Portable simulators Designed to meet demand from chassis and safety engineers, compact simulators are now offering opportunities across multiple departments of OEMs to successfully solve market challenges in a more ...
09/03/2020 3D printed bionic hand allows amputee to bond with young son for first time For 21 years, Danny Florence has lived with one hand. But when he became a father, he decided to apply for an Open Bionics Hero Arm. With the help of this state-of-the-art prosthesis he can now build ...
05/03/2020 Sensors offer nuclear options A 2D laser profile sensor is being used by the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) in a project to develop a smart robotic grinding/deburring solution for welded ...
09/01/2020 The world’s first truly universal torque wrench calibration machine Traditionally, torque wrench calibration machines have been intended for specific manufacturers’ products. For laboratories and OEMs this can be a real nuisance, requiring several different machines ...
03/12/2019 Remote condition monitoring advances are having positive impacts on industry Remote condition monitoring represents one of the most game-changing technologies to have entered the industrial sphere in recent years. By removing the need for time-consuming and costly checks by ...
07/11/2019 I spy with my UVeye An Israeli start-up has taken a system for detecting explosives underneath vehicles and re-designed it for the automotive quality assurance market.
07/10/2019 Predictive maintenance processes are easy to implement With food manufacturers being continually squeezed on price by retailers and asked to fulfil orders for supply that can seem, at best, challenging and at worst highly unrealistic, improving ...
03/10/2019 2000-year-old Herculaneum Scrolls to be decoded using UK synchrotron Researchers led by Professor Brent Seales, will be using Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility in Oxfordshire, to examine and virtually unwrap two complete scrolls and ...
11/09/2019 UK tech company has harnessed and learned to control the speed of light for its revolutionary Dynamic Holographic HUD Platform At the beginning of 2019 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Envisics – a technology company based in Milton Keynes – unveiled a holographic head up display (HUD) platform for vehicles.
09/09/2019 Ensuring stability and safety: drives must comply with EMC requirements In many industrial environments, ensuring the stability of drive controllers is sometimes overlooked. However, according to Mark Checkley, sales and managing manager, KEB Automation, an EMC-compliant ...
05/09/2019 Contactless sensor provides improved monitoring of electromagnetic brakes for elevator, and stage and theatre applications Backwards compatible with conventional electromechanical microswitches, but with none of their inherent limitations, Warner Electric’s WES contactless sensor is claimed to bring improved reliability ...
04/09/2019 Keep on rolling The term ‘Smart Products’ has become part of everyday vocabulary as we acquire ever-increasing numbers of devices that communicate with each other and allow us to control them or access information ...
31/07/2019 Flexible, low-cost translation of diagnostic assays to a simple, easy-to-use device In which applications could a simple, low-cost robotic system that performs on-site, precise fluid mixing and manipulation be used? They could include: diagnostic testing, testing of food and drink ...
09/07/2019 Precision sensors are proving valuable in real time condition monitoring of wind farms A range of unpredictable events such as lightning, stormy weather and rough seas can have serious consequences on a wind turbine, potentially resulting in defective rotor blades, tower movements or, ...
07/06/2019 Using autonomous robots and AI to take humans out of harm in Britain’s nuclear clean-up task There are 4.9m tonnes of legacy nuclear waste in the UK, some of it dating back to the 1950s. Dealing with this using current technologies will take 120 years, cost around £234 billion and require ...
03/06/2019 Electric vehicles are quiet – too quiet. Now a UK company has designed a system that creates noise to alert pedestrians Blind pedestrians are 40% more likely to be hit by a hybrid or electric vehicle (EV) than one with an internal combustion engine (ICE), according to a survey by the Guide Dogs for the Blind ...
09/05/2019 ‘Testing to destruction’ is a term that takes on a very literal meaning at Cranfield Ordnance, Test and Evaluation Centre When he describes what happens at his site, Trevor Lawrence, the operations director of Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre (COTEC) reflects: “Now I think about it, it doesn’t sound like a ...
07/05/2019 The wearables market may have slowed but developments in sensing technology and AI suggest we haven’t seen anything yet Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the provision of healthcare, whether in the form of wearable devices, home diagnostic applications or remote monitoring devices. Powerful ... 2 comments
03/04/2019 Detecting tumours with optical imaging Near-infrared technology from MIT pinpoints fluorescent probes within living tissue, at a depth approaching that of CT and MRI but at a higher resolution and could be used to detect cancer earlier.
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