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• Mid-power UV LED for disinfection and sterilisation

  08-02-2019 12:19 via electronicsweekly.com
  Vishay has announced an AlGaN mid-power ultra-violet LED for water purification, air purification, surface sterilisation, medical disinfection, and portable sanitisers. Called VLMU35CM00-280-120, it comes in a 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.2mm surface-ceramic mount package with a quartz window. Because of this construction, the firm is claiming “extremely long lifetime” – however, nowhere in the data sheet nor the product ...
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• Renesas sales and profits sink

  08-02-2019 12:18 via electronicsweekly.com
  Renesas reported Q4 sales 11% down y-o-y at $1.67 billion and profits down 4.9% y-o-y at $191 million. For the full year of 2018, sales were down 3,3% y-o-y at $6.7 billion and profits were down 2.1% y-o-y at $1 billion. For Q1 it forecasts sales of $1.3-5 billion. “In our full year 2018 and ...
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• Scottish space firm unveils world’s largest 3D printed rocket engine

  08-02-2019 11:41
  
  Scottish space firm Orbex has unveiled an engineering prototype of a rocket that’s at the heart of plans to develop a UK satellite launch capability.
  The completed engineering prototype of the Stage 2 rocket. Image: OrbexThe company, which is involved in plans to develop the UK’s first spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland unveiled the rocket at the opening of its new headquarters and rocket design facility in Forres in the Scottish Highlands.
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• Drax carbon capture pilot claims its first CO2

  08-02-2019 11:33
  
  Drax Power Station’s bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot has sequestered its first carbon dioxide, in what the company claims is a world first.(Credit: Drax)Developed in partnership with Leeds-based C-Capture, the demonstration unit will gather just one ton of CO2 per day, a drop in the ocean of Drax’s overall carbon output. If scaled up, however, the technology could potentially be used to help decarbonise the energy sector, with Drax claiming it could become the worl
  
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• Digital manufacturing: what, where, how and why?

  08-02-2019 10:50
  
  We need to become more like Germany: a misguided national obsession with keeping old manufacturing equipment running as long as possible rather than investing in the latest technology is holding UK firms back and hampering productivity.This was just one of the claims made at a recent roundtable event convened by The Engineer and BAE Systems to discuss the opportunities presented by digital manufacturing technologies and practical challenges of implementing these technologies.
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• Roundtable report: What does digital technology offer manufacturing?

  08-02-2019 10:33
  
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  Given the sometimes confusing plethora of digital technologies available, and the competing – and even contradictory – claims about their effectiveness, it can be difficult to keep in sight the reasons for using them. The roundtable panellists had a variety of points of view on this, mainly foregrounding the abilities that technologies give for keeping the performance of factories simple to observe, and keeping in sight the improvements they can bring to the final produ
  
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• Roundtable report: Is UK manufacturing embracing digital?

  08-02-2019 10:33
  
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  While awareness and deployment of digital technologies is growing across the industry, our panel agreed that there’s a long way to go. And, although many of industry’s big hitters are enthusiastic converts, they say that driving uptake further down the supply chain is a key challenge
  “Unless we start embracing the rest of that learning with the supply chain, it doesn’t go far enough to have an impact,” said GKN’s Paul Perera, adding that firms su
  
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• Roundtable report: How can SMEs adopt digital manufacturing?

  08-02-2019 10:32
  
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  Smaller companies face financial, cultural and skills issues when it comes to embracing digital manufacturing and The Engineer’s panellists agreed that employing technology champions who can articulate its benefits is vital
  One recurring issue with UK industry is that SMEs which make up the bulk of the sector tend to be slower in introducing new technologies than larger companies, even though they tend to be the suppliers on whom the large companies depend. This is certainly
  
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• Roundtable report: The key is addressing a digital manufacturing skills gap

  08-02-2019 10:31
  
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  Throughout the discussion, the issue of skills was a recurring theme and, for Jeremy Hadall, this was the overriding factor in spreading the implementation of digital technologies
  Integration is a challenge, he said, but “the bigger challenge is just the skills to do it, both in the end users – because a lot of these companies have never done it, they don’t have clue how to start – and secondly in the supply chain”.
  GKN’s Paul Perera agreed that
  
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• Roundtable report: Interviews with The Engineer’s panellists

  08-02-2019 10:30
  
  ROUNDTABLE REPORTBAE Systems’s director of strategic technology Andy Wright talks about the digital technologies that are going to impact the company’s manufacturing processes in the future
  AMRC’s chief executive Colin Sirett discusses how the centre is driving the development of factory of the future technologiesCraig Turnbull, director of Electro-Impact UK, looks at the key obstacles hindering SMEs in the manufacturing supply chain from adopting digital technology
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• Roundtable report: Cross-sector collaboration is crucial to digital manufacturing

  08-02-2019 10:30
  
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  With the UK’s digital manufacturing landscape best described as patchy, our panel agreed that cross-sector collaboration will be key to encouraging more widespread uptake
  BAE’s Julia Sutcliffe said there is a keen awareness of this in the aerospace sector. “One thing that is widely recognised is the vast amount of investment that’s going into things like digital technologies outside of the defence aerospace sector. It’s colossal globally. So without do
  
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• Roundtable report: Introduction – exploring the factory of the future

  08-02-2019 10:15
  
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  At a special roundtable event convened by The Engineer and BAE Systems late in 2018 a panel of experts reflected on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital manufacturing technologies. 
  From cobots to AI, and additive manufacturing to AR, a host of emerging digital technologies promise to make manufacturers more nimble, productive and efficient. But in such a rapidly changing landscape, how can engineering firms ensure they are making the best possible use of the
  
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• China IC production growing 15% CAGR 2018-2023

  08-02-2019 07:19 via electronicsweekly.com
  IC production in China represented 15.3% of its $155 billion IC market in 2018, up from 12.6% five years earlier in 2013, says IC Insights, which forecasts that this share will increase by 5.2 percentage points from 2018 to 20.5% in 2023.   Figure 1 Currently, China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a very ...
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• Thalia adds analogue porting capabilities

  08-02-2019 07:04 via electronicsweekly.com
  Thalia Design Automation has introduced advanced analogue schematic porting capabilities within its AMALIA analog design automation tool suite. Configured for users of TSMC, Global Foundries, UMC, SMIC, and in-house technologies of Tier 1 design companies, the AMALIA schematic porting capability claims to achieve design time savings of up to 50% in analogue migration projects. “Process migration – moving IP ...
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• u-blox adds antenna to BLE modules

  08-02-2019 07:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  u-blox has integrated a PCB antenna into its BLE 5  NINA-B306/316 modules. The trapezoidal printed antenna, technology licensed from Proant AB, enable superior performance transmission and reception of data in a small form factor. By moving the antenna to the PCB, manufacturers can now implement the NINA-B3 family into even smaller form factors. The NINA-B306/316 ...
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