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• ANT Industries land £25m of new business to supply aero-engine parts

  11-01-2017 17:08
  
  Continuing growth in the global aerospace has landed ANT Industries £25m worth of business over the next five years.ANT Industries makes 36,000 aero-engine parts a year and the Atherstone-based company will now supply engine components to support six new civil engine programmes for a global Spanish aerospace manufacturer.
  The six programmes include providing parts for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s Trent 1000 engine, while another is for a PW815 engine for 100 seater aircraft.
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• Extruded sides keep rack enclosure drilling to a minimum

  11-01-2017 16:39 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  3U RackCase PRO from Verotec has heavy-duty extruded side panels that form a rigid structure with with the front and rear panels and top and base covers. The external face of the sides have full length slots for fitting telescopic slides that ease withdrawal from a 19” rack for access. The internal face of the ...
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• Extruded side panels keep rack enclosure drilling to a minimum

  11-01-2017 16:39 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  3U RackCase PRO from Verotec has heavy-duty extruded side panels that form a rigid structure
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• Cold-container processing promises improved fibre optics for medical imaging

  11-01-2017 16:31
  
  Portable scanners that detect cancer and endoscopes that analyse the content of tissue could be made possible using optical fibres that emit long-wavelength mid-infrared light.
  Now, in an EPSRC-funded project, researchers at Nottingham University are developing a new technique to produce these fibres far more quickly and cost-effectively than existing methods, opening up the possibility of using the technology in a range of applications.
  Mid-infrared light waves oscillate at frequencies that mat
  
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• Manufacturers predict growth in 2017 despite Brexit disruption

  11-01-2017 15:46
  
  Over two thirds of manufacturing firms expect to grow in 2017 despite the impact of Brexit, according to the findings of the annual Business Census 2017 report.
  The survey of 1,300 firms, carried out by Company Check during November and December, found that that 70 per cent of companies are predicting an increase in turnover over the next 12 months.
  When questioned about Brexit, more than a third (34 per cent) of manufacturers said the vote to leave had already had a negative impact on their bus
  
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• Bringing it all back home

  11-01-2017 14:19
  
  The rising popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), combined with advances in energy storage, presents an exciting new opportunity to rethink the grid. Andrew Wade reports. 
  Notions of car and home working in tandem have been around for a long time; vehicles charging overnight at off-peak rates, then supplying homes with leftover energy in the evening when tariffs are high. The larger batteries paraded by today’s EVs make this an increasingly viable prospect, although admittedly one tha
  
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• CAA-approved drone flying courses

  11-01-2017 13:42 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Sky-Futures’ Basic Drone Certification Course will enable persons and organizations in the UK to reach the basic standard required to operate drones under a CAA Permission for Commercial Operations (PfCO). For the past two years, Sky-Futures has trained Emergency Service and Enterprise clients in the safe use of drone technology in the UK. Sky-Futures holds ...
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• GloFo CTO Gary Patton picks IC opportunities

  11-01-2017 13:35 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Gary Patton, GloFo CTO and senior VP of worldwide R&D, spoke about three disruptive trends at SEMI’s recent ISS meeting: globalisation, climate change, and Moore’s Law. Patton showed 2016’s global semiconductor merger and acquisition activity exceeding a staggering $130 billion and China’s rapidly growing IC production which is forecast to reach more than 20 percent ...
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• Driving diversity in engineering

  11-01-2017 13:22
  
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  Despite some notable efforts, the engineering community still has a long way to go in building a more diverse culture writes Dr Hayaatun Sillem, deputy chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering
  A fascinating new film will be premiered this month tracing the story of a group of NASA mathematicians – dubbed ‘human computers’ – who played a vital role in the US space programme, making crucial calculations to enable this superlative e
  
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  11-01-2017 13:22
  
  Despite some notable efforts, the engineering community still has a long way to go in building a more diverse culture writes Dr Hayaatun Sillem, deputy chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering
  A fascinating new film will be premiered this month tracing the story of a group of NASA mathematicians – dubbed ‘human computers’ – who played a vital role in the US space programme, making crucial calculations to enable this superlative engineering effort. All
  
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• GCHQ selects start-ups for its accelerator

  11-01-2017 12:51 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Seven start-ups, focusing on online security issues and threats, will join the new GCHQ Cyber Accelerator. The GCHQ Accelerator, officially launched today, will be part of a Government-funded cyber innovation centre that will help keep the UK secure online Each start-up will receive benefits including access to technological and security expertise, networks, office space and ...
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• AMS 2017: Register now for this year’s key manufacturing showcase

  11-01-2017 12:18
  
  Running from 6th – 8th June at the NEC Birmingham the Advanced Manufacturing Show 2017 (AMS) is a must-attend event for anyone with an interest in finding out about and specifying the latest manufacturing technology.
  Renishaw will be showcasing its RenAM 500M additive manufacturing system, the only additive machine to be designed and built in the UKThe event, which runs every two years offers visitors the opportunity to meet suppliers, view live demonstrations, and benchmark and source the
  
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• US deploys biggest ever micro-drone swarm

  11-01-2017 12:08
  
  The US Department of Defence has announced the successful test of the world’s biggest ever swarm of micro-drones.
  (Credit: US DoD)Last October saw three F/A-18 Super Hornets deploy 103 Perdix drones from their flare canisters over China Lake in California. The miniature vehicles, which have a wingspan of 30cm and weigh 290g, then completed a series of missions together as a swarm. According to the Department of Defence (DoD), the Perdix drones demonstrated advanced swarm behaviou
  
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• ETSI sets standards for smart city data context

  11-01-2017 12:07 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The vast amount of data created by a smart city data risks being of limited use unless it is supported by context, according to European standards body ETSI, which is attempting to formalise contextual information. ETSI said: Data without context are meaningless. The context seems obvious to humans: the temperature sensor is attached to an ...
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• Making haste – inside Ilmor Engineering

  11-01-2017 11:50
  
  Investment in cutting-edge design and manufacturing technology is helping powertrain legend Ilmor cement the UK’s position in world motorsport. Chris Pickering reports. 
  Driving round the outskirts of Brixworth you would not necessarily know it was a place of global significance. But this unassuming corner of Northamptonshire marks the northern tip of Motorsport Valley – the strip of central and southern England that’s home to something like 75 per cent of the world’
  
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• SiTime has ASIL auto oscillators in production

  11-01-2017 09:23 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  SiTime, the MEMS-based timing specialist owned by MegaChips of Japan, has two families of ultra-robust AEC-Q100-qualified MEMS oscillators in production. The SiT2024/25 and SiT8924/25 oscillators are designed for ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) compliant automotive applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), in-vehicle Ethernet, powertrain and electronic control units (ECUs). “The automotive industry is ...
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