Showing 75 articles for: Production and Manufacturing
Certainty and Coopearation are Key
In his September editorial, Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng highlighted the need for solutions to the numerous key issues in defining the UK’s new relationship with the EU.
Manufacturing power stations
Harry Edwards, Adam Locke and Andrew Jackson
Small modular reactors that have components manufactured in factories and constructed onsite could offer a quicker and cheaper alternative to generating nuclear power
Against the tide
Geoff Watts and Daniel Sharp
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s new Shannon-class lifeboat has been designed and manufactured to be faster, safer and more manouverable than existing vessels
Professor Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang FREng - Integrating metrology in business and academe
Michael Kenward OBE
Professor Jane Jiang’s interest in measuring began when she worked on a bus production line in China
OPINION - Steel can arise from the ashes of coal
Professor Sridhar Seetharaman
Professor Sridhar Seetharaman argues that smaller, flexible steel mills implementing new technology would better cope with fluctuating global trends.
A lot more than lubrication
Professor Ian Hutchings FREng
Professor Ian Hutchings FREng, GKN Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cambridge, highlights the progress and some failures of the important discipline of tribology.
Dr Ralf Speth FREng - R&D investment makes good business sense
Michael Kenward OBE
In five years as CEO, Dr Ralf Speth FREng has increased investment and R&D at Jaguar Land Rover, overhauled the company’s production facilities, and incorporated energy-saving technologies and new materials
Engineering polymath wins major award
Geoff Watts
The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the ground-breaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer FREng for his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface between chemistry and medicine
Diamond technology: beyond hardness
Professor Mark Newton
The UK is home to synthetic diamond research and production activities that take advantage of the material’s several extreme properties, in addition to its hardness