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Engineers and machine builders face safety standards confusion.
Farm of the future
Robots are taking over down on the farm.
Few responsibilities are greater for a control system than the reliable running of a waterworks, as failure to keep the water flowing for 24 hours a day leads to expensive and awkward workarounds. However, one Danish facility has found a way to enable its personnel to monitor water quantity, pressure drops and salinity directly on their PCs.
A lack of standards is holding back wireless automation.
Fully autonomous vehicles for everyday use in the future are fantasy, but improved driver aids are evolving and here to stay says E&T.
New technologies are required to cope with the cold and pressure as oil companies head out into deeper waters in their quest for oil.
Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a telescope is taking shape - not one in the conventional sense of the word, based around optics or a radio dish, but a huge array of optical sensors designed to look for sub-atomic particles called neutrinos, explains E&T.
Carriers underway
The UK’s new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.
To optimize the use of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and deliver high-performance data acquisition, National Instruments created NI signal streaming technology. NI signal streaming combines three innovative hardware and software-level design elements to enable sustained high-speed and bidirectional data streams over USB.
The mainstream media outlets are full of depressing news stories about high profile bankruptcies, factory closures and redundancies. Even the technical trade press has an air of panic around it. You could be forgiven for feeling that the world has gone into meltdown, that we’ll all be out of work soon and facing a bleak future.
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Support for skills 9 July 2008
Hardly a day goes by without a fresh announcement of skills shortages – a subject very close to the IET's heart.
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