by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 18, 2019 | Technologies, Technologies 2018
A meeting of minds: The Engineer magazine’s annual Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) awards puts one of UK engineering’s key strengths – its rich culture of collaboration – under the spotlight. Jon Excell, editor of The Engineer, runs through this year’s...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 18, 2019 | Technologies, Technologies 2018
Modern Maintenance Matters. Many changes face maintenance personnel in the modern era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, taking Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things away from marketing buzz-speak and towards direct relevance to production engineers and operations...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 18, 2019 | Technologies, Technologies 2018
Unwavering precision, tireless efficiency and outstanding reliability will ensure robots continue to make significant inroads into the manufacturing sector and help them shape the factories of the future. Many of the statistics surrounding industrial robots are...
by Will | Feb 20, 2018 | Sponsors, Technologies, Technologies 2017
The projects at the University of Bristol were originally part of the £6M EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites (CIMComp) project. They are being carried forward into the current £10M EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Hub, which is led by the...
by Will | Feb 16, 2018 | Sponsors, Technologies, Technologies 2017
Graphene’s excellent electrical and optical properties make it ideal for use in electronics and photonics applications. Terahertz radiation is used in imaging, spectroscopy and security applications. The EPSRC-supported Graphene Electronics and Optoelectrics...
by Will | Feb 15, 2018 | Sponsors, Technologies, Technologies 2017
Why don’t we have energy ratings labels for our cars and other vehicles? We think we already do – via the checks on tailpipe emissions and CO2 that are backed up by Government legislation and the car manufacturers themselves, always looking for ways to reduce...