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Imec joins Graphene Flagship
To coincide with Graphene Week 2014, the Graphene Flagship announce that one of the largest-ever European research initiatives is doubling in size. 66 new partners are being invited to join the consortium following the results of a €9 million competitive call. While most partners are universities and research institutes, the share of companies, mainly SMEs, involved is increasing.
Launch of multi-million pound engineering institute in Derby
Derby’s leading engineers and advanced manufacturers launched their vision to make the city the world leader in making high-value and top quality products on Thursday, June 26 2014. Key players from the city’s manufacturing industry were among the 70-plus guests at the unveiling of the multi-million pound Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Engineering (IISE) at Lonsdale House.
Training delivers sustainable improvements for resistor firm
Cressall Resistors has worked with training provider Focus Management for Business to deliver a set of NVQ training programmes in business improvement techniques for its plant floor team.
Warwick students geared up and ready for international race
Engineering students from the University of Warwick are gearing up for an international racing event which will see them go head to head with their friends and rivals at Monash University.
Internet of Things controls street lighting
TTP and Mayflower have announced that they have completed development of the latest wireless smart lighting control system. An example of the Internet of Things (IoT) in action, this latest design offers over a 50% reduction in power consumption compared to existing smart lighting systems along with enhanced reliability, improved radio range and class leading metering accuracy. The new MK3 design is now available and shipping in volume, with the ...
The 4th Annual Telematics China Summit 2014
The 4th Annual Telematics China Summit 2014 will gather more than 200 worldwide stakeholders including government, automotive industry, telematics service provider, insurance industry, information technology, telecomms industry, device manufacturers and others to discuss trending topics such as IoE, wearables, and the connected car providing immersive computing experiences of the future. This provides a platform to build sustainable partnerships ...
IDTechEx quantifies the Internet of Things market
Analyst views of the Internet of Things (IoT) vary drastically depending on how one defines the topic. As a result, there is the potential for much hyping. Having thoroughly researched the topic, IDTechEx has mapped the IoT ecosystem as shown in the diagram below, where IoT centres on things collaborating with things without human intervention at the time. These things have internet protocol (IP) addresses, microcontrollers for local data process...
Automotive OEMs get safety-critical HMI system
The DiSTI Corporation and Green Hills Software have extended their partnership spanning over a decade to support the automotive market with a safety-critical HMI system.It combines Green Hills’ certified safety and security solutions, services and cross-industry expertise with DiSTI’s GL Studio 3D graphical user interfaces, and is aimed at automotive OEMs and Tier 1s.
TIMs target high-performance electronics
Techsil have introduced 2 new one-component thermal interface materials to the electronics market. While fans, heat sinks, and even liquid cooling and thermoelectric devices can be used to provide enough cooling power, the problem remains to get the heat from the hot components into the cooling hardware. Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) are designed to fill in air gaps and microscopic irregularities, resulting in dramatically lower thermal resi...
Extended partnership targets safety-critical HMI systems
The DiSTI Corporation and Green Hills Software have announced the extension of a partnership spanning over a decade to support the automotive market with a safety-critical HMI system. DiSTI and Green Hills have a long history of delivering success in safety-critical FAA DO-178 certified aerospace and aviation avionics markets as well as a co-operative FDA 501k certification in the life-critical Class III medical device market.