25/05/2018
Much discussed, the automation associated with Industry 4.0 brings with it some very big challenges for those supplying the hardware and software.
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24/05/2018
The encroachment of glass into mainstream production has been slow up till now, but could the push to deliver higher throughput more cheaply see the material have a bigger role to play?
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23/05/2018
Coal from South Wales drove the last industrial revolution, could the compound semiconductor cluster now being developed in the region be set to deliver the next one?
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09/05/2018
How is the move to digitisation changing the face of electronics manufacturing? Frank Zycinski looks at the impact it’s having on factories.
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08/05/2018
Why is it that so few women are considering engineering as a viable career and what can be done to address it?
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12/04/2017
Up to 80% of a company’s document information can be contained in different or separate formats – such as Word, Excel, pdf and AutoCAD – according to Jurate Venskeviciute-Buciene, chief marketing officer at DocLogix, a specialist in document and process management.
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12/04/2017
Nanomedical Diagnostics, a biotech company located in San Diego, California, has developed a breakthrough electronic assay, an investigative procedure that is usually used in medicine, pharmacology and molecular biology to assess or measure the presence of a particular entity.
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14/03/2017
Although predictive maintenance (PdM) is an established technique, it is quickly becoming recognised as a more viable way of preventing equipment failure than preventive maintenance (PM).
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31/01/2017
Recently a member of TDK-Lambda’s technical marketing team experienced first-hand just how much influence small diameter electrolytic capacitors can have on long-term power supply reliability. Unfortunately he picked February to have his central heating system upgraded and Britain’s unpredictable weather system delivered snow. The seven year old boiler system in the loft had been turned off for two days while the radiators were replaced. When the installation was complete, the boiler was switched on, but failed to start
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26/10/2016
While none of us wants to hear a consultant telling us we have cancer, recent advances in medical technology and surgical procedures have improved significantly the prospects of our overcoming many of the cancers deemed previously terminal.
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26/10/2016
One of the longest established such centres in the UK, the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde is working in optogenetics and neurophotonics, as well as more traditional areas such as solid state lasers.
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26/10/2016
The requirements for functional safety – until relatively recently considered a niche activity among chip and system developers – are now proliferating on the back of the rapid growth in the industrial Internet of Things, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and even drones.
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13/09/2016
Since 2013, Vodafone’s annual IoT Barometer has looked at how enterprises are using and deploying Internet of Things (IoT) technology and one striking finding in the latest report is that, for many companies, the IoT is now at their heart.
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13/09/2016
The IoT offers a technological revolution that can deliver higher efficiencies and enhanced productivity in existing equipment infrastructure. More than this, by leveraging cloud-based IT technologies and capabilities, the implementation of real-time data analysis can enable autonomous decision making and create the potential for new services and revenue streams.
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13/09/2016
Automated road traffic management systems, surveillance systems and storage for the vast amount of data being generated will make up a core part of the future smart city infrastructure. Much of this information is sensitive so the storage technology used needs to be the best available.
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13/09/2016
Efforts to produce an efficient way of linking those programming in C with the ability to create hardware have been under way for many years. One of the first tools generated to support this was created in the early 1990s in Oxford University’s Computing Laboratory, where Ian Page developed Handel-C as means of bridging between C and silicon.
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13/09/2016
The challenge of combining high temperature operation and CMOS technology has been something that few companies have managed to address successfully over the years. Yet there are applications where designers would like local processing – even though temperatures may be pushing towards 200°C.
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13/09/2016
If you’re not managing projects today, it may not be too long before the phone rings and the boss passes on the good news that you have been chosen to drive the company’s next project. So what might you expect?
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28/06/2016
It is thought that within a few years, engineers will have reached the physical limits of feature sizes that will enable them to build working CMOS systems. In fact, Gordon Moore, the creator of Moore’s Law, has admitted it is likely that the road towards smaller transistors has come to an end.
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28/06/2016
Speaking in 2012, Danny Biran – then Altera’s senior VP for corporate strategy – said he saw a time when the company would be offering ‘standard products’ – devices featuring an FPGA, with different dice integrated in the package. “It’s also possible these devices may integrate customer specific circuits if the business case is good enough,” he noted.
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28/06/2016
Sigma-delta (SD) A/D converters are widely used in applications featuring sensors with small responsivity and reduced bandwidth, due to the high dynamic range offered by this architecture.
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14/06/2016
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Could the UK pulling out of the European Union pose as big a threat to the global economy as a ‘hard landing’ in China? That was the claim made recently by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) chief economist Catherine Mann. According to Mann, a vote to leave the EU will not only impact the UK, but would also have a significant impact on the global economy.
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14/06/2016
Talk to the proponents of PXI and they highlight its flexibility, scalability, footprint, speed and the availability of a growing PXI module portfolio.
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14/06/2016
Machine tools are expensive pieces of equipment and the more capable they are, the greater the price tag. But it can be the case that the items which are made on those machine tools are even more expensive. This means the ability to have precise control over the cutting operation is paramount.
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14/06/2016
Are you thinking of using a rigid/flex format for a PCB? If so, the first and most obvious answer to the question ‘why?’ is to make use of the flexibility and to permit movement between two conventional boards – even if the movement is limited to providing vibration tolerance.
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