Supporting learning in the digital age 5th December 2019

  We all talk about apprenticeships, how important they are for society, closing the skills gap and for the upcoming generation. But what about the importance of apprenticeships on digital transformation?

An important aspect in engineering is tackling the issue of human induced vibration, which is when vibrations are caused by pedestrians walking. Although swaying or unstable structures may spring to mind, the effects of human induced vibrations are pretty minor, such as discomfort in walking.

The strengthening cooperation between Mitsubishi Electric Europe and Schaeffler has been highlighted by the development of a new web-based condition monitoring solution. Customers will require no new IT equipment as the software application runs within a web browser on existing PC hardware, tablets and smartphones.

One of the greatest challenges of a machine learning (ML) solution, is being able to explain why a trained model gave the output it did for a given input. One could track down the network of neurons that activated or the value of the discriminant function, but it would still be difficult to explain the decision to a human.  Guest blog written by Mihai Dragusu, Wind River.

Atlas Copco has marked its century of operations in the UK with a celebratory event at London’s Shard building, which included a look forward at how industrial technology might evolve over the next 100 years. 

Following recent news that insolvency in the manufacturing sector is at a five-year high, a leading materials handling expert in the UK is urging businesses to look beyond Brexit and examine the other factors fuelling today’s manufacturing woes. Midland Pallet Trucks believes that while Brexit is undoubtedly playing a part, there are other issues currently affecting manufacturing that are being overlooked due to politics.

Duracell’s Procell range of high-performance alkaline batteries are in stock at distributor RS Components. They are designed to replace the Duracell Industrial range used by OEMs and professional end users around the world.

STEM subjects encompass stereotypically male-dominated areas: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths. History has always leaned in favour of men within these subjects, which could explain why the number of females in these industries is still low. These damaging stereotypes, as well as preconceptions of what these industries entail, have left industries such as manufacturing wholly unappealing — nearly three quarters of women admitted to Women in Manufacturing (WiM) they would not consider a career in manufacturing.