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SUPER-BOTT
Storage equipment manufacturer Bott Ltd is saving vital fractions of a second for contenders in the British Superbike Championships.
Workshop equipment manufactured by Bott is allowing the Hydrex Honda team to make last minute adjustments to their bikes’ performance.
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VIRTUAL WORKSPACE PLANS UNVEILED IN EU
A major European project has been announced to enable engineers in the aerospace, automotive and construction industries across the globe to interact using virtual reality technology which will allow engineers from different countries to meet and work as a team in cyberspace.
Designing automotives, aeroplanes and buildings. It is hoped that in just a few years these collaborative workspaces will be available for industries across the world – saving them the time and cost of international travel and helping to reduce c
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FUTURE-PROOFING
Innominate Security Technologies AG has launched its new security device, the mGuard industrial RS, which is set to cut the cost for manufacturers who will have to upgrade to broadband connections for remote maintenance in the near future.
By including both dial-up and Ethernet connections, the robust appliance lowers the cost of migration when a manufacturing plant’s networks are upgraded. The device is available in four variations from the third quarter of 2007.
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ENGINEERING MODELS
The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) has highlighted the severe shortage of women in engineering and has appealed for more inspirational role models to come forward through the launch of the 2007 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
The award is open to a young woman working in any discipline of engineering or technology.
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PRINTED ELECTRONICS HAS PROMISING FUTURE
New developments in electronics are underway to offer tremendous benefits to society from self diagnosis and treatment, to new forms of merchandising, food safety and care for the elderly.
37 organisations developing printed transistors have been analysed by IDTechEx in the new report “Printed Electronics in East Asia” which covers 120 organisations in printed electronics. The Printed Electronics industry is set to become a $300 billion business within 20 years.
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ALL-TIME HAULAGE LOW
The Freight Transport Association says that the market share of UK-based carriers hit a new all-time low of just 24.9 percent in the first quarter of 2007.
Provisional figures in ‘Road Goods Vehicles Travelling to Mainland Europe: Q1 2007’ shows the number of UK registered trucks fell to an eighteen month low in the first quarter of 2007, while foreign vehicle numbers rose to an all-time high.
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LIGHTENING THE LOAD - TACKLING MSD DISORDERS
‘Lighten the load’ is the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work’s 2007 campaign to tackle MSDs in the workplace and culminates with the European Week for Safety and Health at Work from 22 to 26 October 2007, with a range of activities and events across Europe.
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SAFETY HONOURED
Around 130 businesses in the manufacturing and engineering services industries were honoured at this year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Occupational Health and Safety Awards.
The winner of the Manufacturing Sector was Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, Burnaston, Derby. The Engineering Services Sector was won by ScottishPower Fleet Business, Glasgow. The event was hailed as a success in combating the dangers of negligence at work.
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THE GREEN AGENDA
Increasingly, reports have appeared in the press about organisations who’ve created new positions within their management team to look after their ‘green agenda’.
Corporations and government organisations alike are keen to attack the environmental agenda head-on, and appointing someone internally to look after ‘green’ responsibility shows proactivity in the pursuit of environmentally friendly policies.
These new positions, as suggested by a recent Times report, stretch anywhere from a ‘carbon logistics specialist’
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UNIVERSITIES TO HELP IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
An agreement has been signed that will see the construction industry and eleven universities in the east of England working together to improve the built environment.
Industry body Constructing Excellence, and i10, the service that enables business to access academic expertise, have joined forces to promote more and better collaboration between the construction industry and academics working on research and development projects that will lead to better planning, design and build.
Jonathan Hogg, head of marketing an
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Supposedly the construction
materials of the future, composites are increasingly seen in
applications where optimum efficiency is paramount including
aircraft construction and renewable energy. As two research
examples show in this video, composites really are the future
for efficiency.
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