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New Centre to Advance Manufacturing Up North
01 May 2005
Four years of worldwide best practice research from some of the UK's brightest manufacturing experts underpins the development, of the Northern Technologies Advanced Manufacturing Centre, which opens in Burnley this summer on the former site of a huge Michelin tyre factory that closed in 2001.
Project Takes Giant Leap To Make Tiny 3D Parts
01 May 2005
Last month, a group of key scientists and engineers, who specialise in manufacturing at very small scales, began a four year, multi-organisation, Grand Challenge to develop the technologies and strategic approaches required for the design and manufacture of tightlyintegrated three dimensional miniaturised products.
Lack of Accurate Measurement is Holding Back Development
01 May 2005
Aerospace engineers believe that a lack of accurate measurement when designing and manufacturing compressor blades, is preventing the development of more efficient jet engines.
Exemplary Companies are Less Likely to be Relocated Overseas
01 May 2005
Many manufacturing companies are bought for their intellectual property, or their access to additional markets, and not necessarily for their capital assets and skilled workforces.
Measurement of Time Increases in Accuracy
01 May 2005
On 3 June the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is marking the 50th anniversary of the atomic clock, which was invented at the NPL by Dr Louis Essen. In global, knowledge-driven markets, competitiveness depends upon solving measurement problems.
