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- Deep learning machine vision tools brings simplicity to complex AI inspection (12/10/2020)
  
  Sensor intelligence expert, SICK has launched a suite of AI deep learning apps & services to simplify machine vision quality inspection for challenging electronic components – especially those that have previously defied automation & remained distinguishable only by human inspection.
- The Big Bang goes digital for 2021 (09/10/2020)
  
  For this 2020/21 academic year, the Big Bang programme will be delivered digitally, ensuring schools & young people can take part in its popular, inspirational STEM activities while removing the uncertainty around face-to-face events, including The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair.
- IET announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark 150th year (08/10/2020)
  
  Marking its 150th year, sixteen world-leading engineers & technologists have been awarded Honorary Fellowships from the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) for their outstanding contributions to engineering & technology.
- EPDT October 2020 issue (inc. Power & Automotive features) now available online (03/10/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Power technologies & Automotive applications, as well as EPDT's electronica preview, plus editorial on smart manufacturing in a post-pandemic world & the IET's latest
- Editor's comment: Smart manufacturing in a post-pandemic world… (02/10/2020)
  
  After a gradual relaxing of the lockdown & coronavirus precautions over the summer months, cases are on the rise again as we head towards autumn & winter. As this issue went to press, the Prime Minister had just announced a tightening of restrictions aimed at heading off a further COVID-19 public health crisis & a potential second lockdown.
- STEM Matters: Generation Green ambitions at risk of going to ‘waste’ (02/10/2020)
  
  Recent research has found that over two-thirds of children aged 5-13 hope to follow a career that helps the environment, but that a lack of understanding about these jobs could stop them from getting there.
- Decentralised power supplies for smart manufacturing: the heart of the system continues to evolve… (01/10/2020)
  
  Demand for flexible, modular systems is transforming the world of manufacturing engineering as we know it, with the decentralisation of industrial system components shaping up to be a major development in this regard.
- TDK invests in UK power supply manufacturing & design capabilities (01/10/2020)
  
  TDK-Lambda, with a UK manufacturing & design base in Ilfacombe, North Devon and an advanced research facility based at Bristol & Bath Science Park, is Britain’s largest designer & manufacturer of configurable power supplies. As parent company & electronics giant, TDK Corporation announced an £11.5M investment package to redevelop the Ilfracombe facility, EPDT Editor, Mark Gradwell talks to TDK-Lambda UK Managing Director, Geoff Wilby, Marketing Director, Martin Southam and
- electronica 2020 goes digital… (01/10/2020)
  
  As travel restrictions across Europe continue to tighten in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the organisers of electronica, the world’s leading trade fair & conference for electronics components, systems & solutions, have confirmed that ‘electronica virtual’ will now replace its usual biennial in-person trade fair in Munich this November, with an expanded digital offering & online conference programme.

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