Digital
From Punch Cards and Relays to Virtual PLCs
Manufacturing automation and computer development can both trace their origins to the work of Joseph Marie Jacquard, who in 1804 patented a punch card system
Digital
#343 Weaving Software into Automation
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weavers’ loom. A generation
Digital
#342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse
The metaverse is often thought of as an alternative virtual space, a world separate from reality where we can hang out with avatars of our
Digital
#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability
Nature has long served as a blueprint for engineering breakthroughs from the kingfisher-inspired design of Japan’s Bullet Train to termite mounds that inform energy-efficient buildings.
Digital
#333 Agents of Change – AI in Industry
Generative AI has swept across our society. In every app, up it pops, eager to offer a helping hand. The opportunity to talk to computer
Space
Space Perspective reveals tourism capsule
Space tourism company Space Perspective has unveiled its Spaceship Neptune design. The capsule, which will be lofted into space by a balloon is currently under
Build
Hydrogen trains to replace diesel in eastern Germany
Siemens Mobility has been granted the contract to supply seven hydrogen powered trains for a line in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. This is the
Make
#33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0
World leading smart robotics, industry disrupting technologies and the next generation of augmented reality are just some of the advances in action at Sheffield Advanced
Environmental
#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight
Norwegian airline Widerøe needs a new fleet of planes to serve its regional passenger base. But it doesn’t want to buy conventional aircraft. It wants