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Marketplace for CO2 removals to reverse climate change
A marketplace to kick-start CO2 removal from the atmosphere has been introduced with Puro. Puro is an internal startup at Fortum. This shared experiment pilot is joint by a group of 23 pioneering companies’ aims to find a way to verify, compare and trade CO2 removals. The companies joining the experiment are Fortum, Tieto, Valio, St1, ÅF Pöyry, Compensate Foundation, Carbofex, Yara Suomi Oy, Lassila & Tikanoja, SOK, Orbix, No...
Women in Engineering Column
This year saw WES (The Women’s Engineering Society) celebrate its 100 year anniversary. A lot has changed for women over the last century, as Electronic Specifier’s Anna Flockett found out at the organisation’s centennial conference.WES’s centennial conference which was held last month, titled: ‘Celebrating the Past, Transforming the Future’, set out to discuss the past, how far women have come, some of our ama...
Smart City Solution Week 2019 set to kick off in October
Thailand’s business hub for security solutions, Secutech Thailand, is set to return from 28th to 31st October 2019 alongside Thailand Lighting Fair, Thailand Building Fair, and Digital Thailand Big Bang. Under the banner of ‘Smart City Solution week 2019’, the four fairs together will serve as a one stop shop for smart city professionals to source all of the latest security, building automation, lighting and digital infrastructu...
Let’s get more women into engineering
Attracting more women into construction and engineering must become a higher priority for government and employers, urges Develop Training Ltd (DTL).The training company says redressing the gender imbalance is not just desirable from an ideological viewpoint but also a means of helping to tackle the chronic skills shortage afflicting the industry. Two thirds of employers say a shortage of engineers is a threat to their business.
3D Printing enabling personalised medical devices
One of the key industries to have successfully leveraged the advantages of 3D printing is the medical and dental industry. 3D printing allows for the creation of personalised medical devices to be streamlined, and it has also been used to improve surgical outcomes and deliver personalised medicines.
Hall-effect switch and latch ICs enhance ADAS safety
Addingtwo Hall-effect sensor ICs to its growing portfolio of solutions for systems that require functional safety,Allegro MicroSystems has announced the release of the APS11450 and APS12450.The APS11450 is a family of unipolar switch ICs, while the APS12450 devices are bipolar latches. They are pin-compatible upgrades for existing three-wire Hall switch and latch ICs developed in accordance with ISO 26262:2011 with ASIL-B capability (pending asse...
Digi-Key launches supplier-driven CAD library
A secondary KiCad library, known as the Digi-Key Partner Library, has been released by Digi-Key on GitHub. It is intended to be a supplement to the existing Digi-Key KiCad library released last year. Whereas the previous library was developed and curated by Digi-Key’s Applications Engineering team, the Partner Library was created to allow manufacturers to submit their own symbols and footprints to be compiled into the Digi-Key format.
oneclick AG Selected to Join PwC’s Scale-up Programme
oneclick AG, the provider of secure digital workspaces in the cloud, has been accepted onto PwC’s current Scale-up programme. The participation in the initiative will encourage and allow oneclick to grow and scale-up significantly as a business.The twelve week programme based in Reading, kicked off in January 2019 and involves 10 Scale-ups, over 20 industry experts and over 40 interested and supporting corporates.
Employers must shout out to promote the benefits of apprenticeships
As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, Make UK (formerly EEF) is calling on the manufacturing industry to promote apprenticeships as the perfect pathway to a fulfilling career. As the Government launches its new Fire it Up campaign, now is the perfect time for manufacturing employers to sell their apprenticeships to the next generation.
AI technology initiative kicks off at embedded world
At embedded world 2019, Advantech, AMD, and Mentor, a Siemens business, announced an initiative to make AI technology more accessible and easier to implement, which in turn, is expected to create more AI-based business opportunities. AI technology will take embedded systems to the next level with higher efficiency and smarter systems designed to improve people’s lives.