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Bryan Betts is the Manufacturing editor.
E&T reports on one of a new crop of flying cars: a futuristic unfolding vehicle made of carbon fibre, which is also one of the world’s most fuel-efficient planes.
Offshore manufacturing may seem cheaper at first sight, but reality often works out differently. E&T explains how Total Landed Cost can reveal the truth.
Jet engine makers think that a hybrid of the turbofan and the turboprop could make aircraft significantly more efficient – if only it can be quietened. E&T reports.
Efficient fuel cells could turn hydrogen fuel into a realistic option, discovers E&T, but only if we can figure out how to make it cleanly and distribute it to users.
Takt time is a key element of lean manufacturing. E&T looks at how it evolved through World War Two Germany and Japan to become a cornerstone of today’s Toyota Production System.
E&T visits Citizen Watches to discover that the gears and wheels are still there, and finer than ever.
Vietnam is at the head of several nations vying to become the new destination for outsourced manufacturing, reports E&T.
The UK machine tool industry enters 2009 against the same background of downturn and uncertainty as every other sector of the economy.
£10 million in research funds is available to university researchers interested in collaborating with the electronics industry to develop new manufacturing technologies.
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