Industrial

The countrywide lockdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has had a considerable impact on life across the UK, and whilst the lockdown restrictions are beginning to ease week by week, the pandemic has undeniably contributed to what was already a significant mental health crisis. To combat this, the hobby of home-made electronics is on the rise.

Denchi Group has secured a large-scale contract with DC motor system manufacturer Lemac. The two companies will use their combined expertise to help power stairlifts for a major brand manufacturer.

There will be 3.5 billion augmented reality (AR) users by the year 2022, according to Digi-Capital. Construction is one of the many industries adopting this immersive technology, which is now changing the way that companies design, model and build. Here Ian Barnes, Head of Business at SITECH, discusses three ways that AR is creating an era of interactive construction.

There are some tips and tricks you can deploy when developing a new PCB to help produce a useful first-time prototype and allow easier debugging of the design. Roland Bodlovic, Technical Manager, ByteSnap Design, offers some advice for prototype testing.

Construction of the longest subsea power cable in the world has now passed the halfway point and achieved a major engineering feat to enable Norway’s zero carbon hydro energy to be shared with the UK.

While the economic implications of COVID-19 threaten to shadow the Great Depression, here Harel Boren, CEO and co-founder of Inspekto, explained why Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV) could be the new New Deal.

JLT Mobile Computers has announced that it is making available the benefits of its expertise in a series of ‘how to’ guides designed to help new and existing customers make the right strategic technology decisions to optimise their operations. The first guide in the series aims to increase productivity in the warehouse and is available for download.

When the farm meets smart technology (smart agriculture), what will it look like? With the advent of the IoT, ‘Big Data’ and Machine Learning, many businesses can now quickly and accurately collect and analyse information to fine tune their processes and improve productivity and quality.

Power management is integral to business strategy at Texas Instruments (TI), and the company is pushing significant investment towards GaN technology (gallium nitride), which has huge potential to make a difference to how industrial and other applications are going to function in the future.

I have always been interested and somewhat fascinated by machines, especially the ones that are used to build other machines. I have good memories of my visits to an enormous foundry or a ship factory. This dates back 30 years when I was working in a machine shop as a high school senior. I loved the industrial saws used to cut 2” thick sheets of mica or the G-code programmed CNCs. Enough of this and back to the topic of the Fourth Industria...