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First International Energy Conference to be held by Thames Valley
Sharing the latest innovations, insights and ideas at the first ever International Energy Conference, will be many high profile experts from across the energy sector, including Energy Forum President and former CEO of Shell Energy Europe, Paul Trimmer.Hosted by the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group, the event aims to bring together businesses interested in learning the latest developments and gaining industry insight into the energy sector.
Resistor choppers help to slow overspeeding fans
It is always better to be safe than sorry, and this is definitely the case with braking resistors and fans. When fans are operating in a closed system, a situation may arise where one fan will over-speed the next and the DC bus voltage on their motor drives will then rise. John Mitchell, business development manager of CP Automation, reports on the case of GA Pet Food Partners in Leyland, Lancashire.
Monitor with popup webcam makes life tough for camera hackers
With hackers becoming ever more inventive – and with awareness growing of potential risk exposure through webcams – MMD, the technology company and brand license partner for Philips Monitors, is rolling out the first Philips display with a webcam that pops up when needed, and is otherwise hidden in the display frame.
Police report rapid rise in drone crime
It seems that for every ‘good news story’ on the use of UAVs, or drones, there is another involving more sinister uses for their capabilities. Only last week Electronic Specifier reported that Amazon had begun trialling its delivery drone service where customers could potentially make an order and have it delivered to their door, by drone, within 30 minutes.
Centralisation to improve efficiency
In order to align its operational practices with sister companies across Europe, Hasco UK has recently relocated its warehousing to the company’s central storage operation.
Hacking microbes for flavour and fragrance
Biology is the world’s greatest manufacturing platform, according to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks.The synthetic-biology startup is re-engineering yeast to act as tiny organic “factories” that produce chemicals for the flavour, fragrance, and food industries, with aims of making products more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently than traditional methods.
Cyber-space to cyber-seas
As smart farming marches into the technological future, there are some weird and wonderful solutions appearing to accommodate population growth. Electronic Specifier’s Daisy Stapley-Bunten investigates.
Will self-driving cars be bullied?
A pan-European research project to investigate the attitudes and readiness of drivers to share the road with autonomous vehicles has been announced by Goodyear and LSE. The research, commissioned via LSE Consulting, part of LSE Enterprise, will capture driver opinions from 11 European countries through surveys and focus groups as part of Goodyear’s ThinkGoodMobility platform, focused on smart, safe and sustainable future mobility.
Oil & gas industry repair times reduced by Lean management
Low prices of crude oil in 2015 led to a lot of negative press, however there have also been several positive initiatives that will continue to deliver improvements in the years ahead.Time and money are not to be wasted and the introduction of lean management philosophies in the repair and maintenance business has certainly helped to improve efficiency and productivity throughout the sector.
Insulation for pipes used in manufacturing and process industry
Heat losses can be reduced within the industrial sector, through a number of different opportunities. More often than not, specifications from previous projects that are decades out of date are simply adopted without prior consideration.