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Blogs

- Viewpoint: Is COVID-19 crisis a chance to go even greener?... (14/04/2020)
  
  In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lighting industry, like so much of the economy, faces extraordinary challenges. Mick Ventola, founder & MD of Midlands-based electrical installations & LED lighting specialist, Ventola Projects, explores the lessons we can learn during this tough period – and how the lighting industry can grasp this timely opportunity to build on the good work it's already done to reduce its environmental impact...
- Analog Devices supports WHO & partners with Global Citizen in fight against COVID-19 (09/04/2020)
  
  ADI is partnering with international advocacy organisation, Global Citizen on a televised and streamed special “One World: Together At Home” to be hosted April 18, 2020 in support of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
- Why 5G conspiracy theory is physically impossible: debunking coronavirus fake news (09/04/2020)
  
  NHS GP, Dr Gero Baiarda is one of hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GP-on-demand service, GPDQ. Since launching his ‘myth-busting’ series 10 days ago, Dr Baiarda has become a media ‘go-to’ for information on what to believe, or not, in the interest of our health during the COVID-19 pandemic – including 5G conspiracy theories.
- Manufacturing Barometer reveals worrying picture for SME manufacturers already hit by COVID-19 (09/04/2020)
  
  SME manufacturers in England are being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 87% of companies identifying significant decreases in production volumes. The latest survey shows reduction in volumes, potential job cuts & confusion around Government support. However, 1 in 5 manufacturers have answered the government’s urgent call for additional NHS equipment.
- UK manufacturers need £650m in April to survive 2020 in wake of coronavirus crisis (08/04/2020)
  
  UK manufacturers are facing a precarious future in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to insights from fintech business lender, MarketFinance. Over two thirds (68%) reported their order books have halved in the last 30 days. To compound matters, the majority (67%) have less than £50k cash – and without any support, will run out of money before the end of the month.
- New ‘saliva test’ to instantly detect COVID-19 coronavirus with lasers (07/04/2020)
  
  European photonics scientists are developing an ultrasensitive laser sensor that detects coronavirus at the earliest point of infection from a saliva or nasal swab in just minutes.
- EPDT April 2020 issue (inc. Power & Automotive features) now available online (03/04/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Power technologies & Automotive applications, as well as editorial on coronavirus, obsolescence and, for STEM Matters, an interview with NMITE's President & CEO.
- iED & Keele Uni call for engineers to help solve NHS & healthcare issues amid COVID-19 pandemic (02/04/2020)
  
  A new project, the Engineers for the NHS initiative, has been launched by the iED, in conjunction with Keele University, to unite engineers & designers from across the world to help solve challenges deriving from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- STEM Matters: NMITE – a new approach to STEM education... (02/04/2020)
  
  Regular readers will be only too aware of the STEM challenge facing the UK. Engineers are key to resolving many of the world’s major challenges – from addressing the climate crisis & evolving energy needs or securing infrastructure against harsh weather conditions to ensuring everyone has access to sufficient food & clean water – but we remain critically short of them.
- Williams Advanced Engineering proud to help UK's COVID-19 ventilator challenge for NHS (02/04/2020)
  
  Technology & engineering services business, Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) is playing a significant role in an Aerospace consortium to produce medical ventilators for use by the NHS during the COVID-19 coronavirus global pandemic.
- Editor's comment: Coronavirus – will anything ever be the same again?... (02/04/2020)
  
  Working on this column for EPDT's April issue in early March, there seemed little alternative but to write about coronavirus. Even a few short weeks ago, COVID-19 was increasingly dominating the news cycle & media, with the scale, scope & span of the global crisis growing rapidly.
- How to avoid component obsolescence rendering your entire product defunct (01/04/2020)
  
  Component obsolescence can render an entire product difficult to sell, leaving your business with hefty research & development and design & marketing costs to recoup, but little avenue for a return on investment.
- Working from home? Get your free copy of EPDT magazine redirected to home... (01/04/2020)
  
  Working from home due to COVID-19, but still want to receive your printed copy of EPDT? For the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, get your monthly copy of EPDT temporarily redirected & delivered direct to your home address.
- Commercial embedded Linux benefits (31/03/2020)
  
  An increasingly popular choice for embedded solutions, Linux is often considered the default environment for software developers. Organisations looking to create embedded products often utilise a commercially-supported embedded Linux platform for its customisability, low-cost and long-term support & maintenance.
- Midlands Innovation universities support the fight against COVID-19 (30/03/2020)
  
  As the situation with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic rapidly escalates & changes, universities in the Midlands are uniting to help with the fight against the virus outbreak.
- VentilatorChallengeUK industry consortium helps scale up ventilator production for NHS to combat COVID-19 outbreak (30/03/2020)
  
  A consortium of leading UK industrial, technology & engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive & medical sectors, has come together to produce medical ventilators for the UK during this COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- Opinion: Who has the data that could help us combat the spread of coronavirus?... (27/03/2020)
  
  How can new technologies help us fight the spread of COVID-19? Massimo Canducci, Chief Innovation Officer at Italian digital transformation experts, the Engineering Group tells us why he believes there is an urgent need to define a regulatory framework that ensures the protection of privacy – but that also contemplates any exceptional requirements that may arise...
- No Hannover Messe in 2020: industrial trade show cancelled for first time in 73-year history, due to COVID-19 (26/03/2020)
  
  Show organisers, Deutsche Messe AG have announced that, due to the increasingly critical situation surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Hannover Messe cannot take place this year – and so has now been cancelled for 2020.
- COVID-19 manufacturing slowdowns + increased demand will balance to 16M AR & VR HMD shipments in 2021 (26/03/2020)
  
  ABI Research whitepaper identifies the short- & long-term impacts the coronavirus global pandemic will have on the market for augmented & virtual reality (AR/VR) head mounted displays (HMDs).
- How Xilinx is helping to fight Coronavirus around the world: President & CEO on COVID-19 (23/03/2020)
  
  Xilinx President & CEO, Victor Peng has shared this blog post regarding COVID-19 and how Xilinx technology is helping play a role in combatting Coronavirus...

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