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Engineers climb the ratings to become Britain’s second most trusted profession

electronica confirms its status as the world’s leading trade fair for electronics

“Electronics industry paves the way for climate protection” finds electronica Trend Index

Spotlight on T Levels awareness during 10th annual Tomorrow's Engineers Week

Rewilding, better CGI & mechanical bees top students' ideas for the future

Manufacturing & Engineering Week 2023: 'The Glastonbury of the industrial sector'

- Editor’s comment: Engineers will save the day… (02/11/2022)
  
  Regular EPDT readers will know that I often write about the key role engineers play in addressing the grand challenges facing society – from improving energy security & confronting climate change, to ensuring universal access to clean drinking water & maximising the benefits of AI for all. Engineers are tasked with creating, developing, building & maintaining the technologies to solve these problems & improve everyday life...
- A hotbed of innovation: New research reveals engineering adds up to an estimated £645bn to the UK’s economy annually (02/11/2022)
  
  On National Engineering Day, new research from the Royal Academy of Engineering has revealed that the UK is an engineering powerhouse, with the profession generating up to an estimated £645bn gross value added (GVA) to the UK’s economy annually – equivalent to 32% of the country’s economic output.
- “15 minutes bakers, 15 minutes!” Bake Off stars join forces to create an edible, working clock to celebrate National Engineering Day (02/11/2022)
  
  Engineers & former Great British Bake Off (GBBO) contestants Rahul Mandal, Andrew Smyth & Giuseppe Dell’Anno created the cake to celebrate National Engineering Day.
- EPDT November 2022 issue (inc. Manufacturing & Automotive features + T&M supplement) now available online (02/11/2022)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Manufacturing technologies & Automotive applications, plus the latest edition of EPDT's regular Test & Measurement (T&M) supplement...
- InfrastructurAL(PR): technology for the smart road (01/11/2022)
  
  The smart home is no longer a lofty ideal. Voice-activated lights, remote thermostats & video doorbells are flashy, but not unattainable; you probably know several people who own smart speakers. By the end of 2022, according to market research firm, Statista, the smart home market will break $125bn in the US alone.
- The amazing technology behind EV batteries (01/11/2022)
  
  Unlike a single energy storage element, such as a fuel tank, electric vehicle (EV) battery packs consist of hundreds of individual lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery cells in a long series. When not operated within a carefully controlled range, the capacity & lifetime of these battery cells can diminish & diverge over time & operating conditions.
- Residual current monitoring offers an alternative to insulation resistance measurement on production equipment (01/11/2022)
  
  Often, conventional insulation measurements in production systems can be quite costly. In some cases, systems must be shut down completely, or components such as frequency converters or switching power supplies disconnected, because the sensitive semiconductor components can be damaged by the test voltages.
- Determining the potential of your AI algorithm begins with measurement (01/11/2022)
  
  At the core of every AI algorithm, explains Jeff Harris, Vice President, Global Corporate & Portfolio Marketing at electronics T&M expert, Keysight Technologies, are three basic ingredients: 1) the ability to measure; 2) knowing how much of what you measure needs to be processed; and, of course, 3) the ability to process more than one input at a time.
- Differentiate your industrial control system from the crowd: the benefits of ASICs in industrial sensors (01/11/2022)
  
  A recent study by Ericsson found that almost two thirds of manufacturers believe their company will be at least 80% automated in the next decade. This transformation will not be possible without industrial control systems, which are the mechanism behind automated machine independence & motion.

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