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Britishvolt enters exclusive technology collaboration with Siemens UK

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EPDT January 2021 issue (inc. Sensors & Medical features + Distribution supplement) now available online

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- Tutorial: How to select power supplies for medical equipment (01/01/2021)
  
  As David Buck, Market Development Manager at power supply manufacturer, TDK-Lambda explains here, the selection of a medical power supply should be approached with great care, following recent updates to medical safety standards.
- Q&A: Ensuring safe design of portable MedTech (01/01/2021)
  
  One prevailing trend in the medical industry is around the portability & miniaturisation of medical devices. However, it can pose challenges for medical device design engineers, in terms of safely balancing a compact profile with effective power.
- Identifying hazards: IEC 62368-1, the new hazard-based testing standard for consumer electronics (01/12/2020)
  
  As innovation has seen the lines blur between previously distinct technologies, compliance requirements for multimedia products have increasingly been falling in both IEC 60065 (AV equipment) & IEC 60950 (IT equipment).
- Advanced systems demand advanced oscilloscopes (01/12/2020)
  
  The design, validation & manufacturing of today’s advanced embedded systems & mechatronics products require the measurement of both analogue & digital signals. Mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSOs) have been developed to meet these needs, enabling simultaneous, time-correlated observation & analysis of analogue with digital signals.
- Britishvolt announces plan for new global headquarters in West Midlands (27/11/2020)
  
  Following UK Government's 2030 announcement advancing electrified vehicles (EVs), battery tech start-up, Britishvolt has announced that its new global HQ will be sited at the MIRA Technology Park Campus, near Coventry in the West Midlands, the epicentre of the UK automotive industry. Its plans will create highly skilled jobs, developing advanced battery technologies, as part of its mission to build the UK's first battery gigaplant.
- Lotus Engineering launches new battery test facilities to support booming EV sector (19/11/2020)
  
  Designed to help meet increasing demand for new UK-based battery testing to support EV supply chain & OEMs, Lotus Engineering's Project BattCon is a pilot project introducing containerised battery test facilities.
- EPDT November 2020 issue (inc. T&M + Industrial features) now available online (03/11/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Test & Measurement technologies and Industrial applications, plus editorial on International E-Waste Day & this year's IET President’s Address.
- Editor's comment: Reducing e-waste through design & manufacturing… (02/11/2020)
  
  October 14th was International E-Waste Day, I was reminded in the run up to it. Electronic & electrical waste is fast becoming a global crisis, as more devices of every type incorporate sensing, intelligence & connectivity – all powered by electronics.
- COVID career dream changers search for answers as Tomorrow's Engineers Week begins... (02/11/2020)
  
  A generation of young people are rapidly reassessing their career dreams according to new research from EngineeringUK, released to mark the start of its national campaign to inspires the engineers of the future, Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2020 (#TEWeek20).

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