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Microsemi awarded contract for adoption of Silicon Carbide technology
Provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi has announced it has become a member of PowerAmerica - a manufacturing institute comprised of public and private representatives from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy, national laboratories and academia - to accelerate the commercialisation and adoption of wide band gap semiconductors.
The Manufacturer MX Awards 2017 – who’s on the shortlist?
A record number of UK manufacturers have been shortlisted for The Manufacturer MX Awards. Thirty-three percent of the 2017 shortlisted companies are new finalists, and overall, entries are up more than 25% compared with 2016, with some categories witnessing increases of 40-70%.
An experiment to tidy up outer space
An experimental project has been launched by UK scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to tackle the growing problem of space junk.Hundreds of thousands of man-made objects orbit the Earth, but fewer than 5,000 are operational satellites. The most congested area sits within 2,000km of the Earth’s surface, known as low Earth orbit (LEO), where collisions can cause further debris.
Happy 20th birthday u-blox!
Cast your minds back to 1997, what were you doing? Daniel Ammann, Jean‑Pierre Wyss and Andreas Thiel were inventing the world’s smallest GPS module as part of their post‑graduate research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).The idea was a simple as it was ingenious and, within a matter of months, they teamed up with their professor and a well‑wishing mentor and investor to found u‑blox.
Allianz and InsurTech Startup Flock to launch pay-as-you-fly drone insurance
AllianzGlobal Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) has workedwith InsurTech startup Flock to develop digital insurance solutions for the growing drones or ‘Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ (UAS) market. The partnership’s first product, to be launched later this year in the UK market, is a mobile app (for Android and iOS devices) enabling operators to purchase ‘pay-as-you-fly’ drone insurance at the touch of a button.
Blades en route to Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm
The first ever wind turbine blades manufactured at the Siemens blade factory in Hull are en route to Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, located off the North Norfolk coast.The Siemens blade factory in Hull officially opened in December 2016 and the first blades to have been manufactured at the site are now ready for installation at Race Bank.The blades have been loaded onto the Sea Installer vessel, and will make their way from the Port of Hull to the...
The rise of semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles
While considered science fiction a decade earlier, semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicle technologies are evolving rapidly. The prospect of autonomous driving seemed to be impossible and futuristic. The idea of autonomous vehicles is not new and traces back to the times of Leonardo Da Vinci who first sketched a three-wheeled driverless cart in 1478. Tesla’s autopilot was introduced in 2015 with driver assistance systems, which marked the i...
New generation of smart plastics adds intelligence
In the developed of Industry 4.0 and the ‘factory of tomorrow’, predictive maintenance has a major role to play.Supporting this future, igus has added more sensors and monitoring modules to its smart plastics family for more intelligence - warning of potential failure in good time before unplanned and costly down-times occur.
Low noise energy chains designed for extreme dynamics
For applications where an extremely low noise energy chain, with very high dynamics or very low abrasion, is required, igus has developed the E6.1 series. It is suitable for applications with speeds of up to 20m/s, these chains are now available in new sizes with larger inner heights of up to 62mm.
Top ten features for DSEI 2017 confirmed
Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) will mark its tenth edition when it takes place this September at ExCeL London.With only ten weeks until the event’s opening, the top features have been listed, which combine to make DSEI ‘the event for the entire defence and security industry to conduct business’.