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          SMART MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING WEEK                                                            3

          SUPPORTING EXHIBITIONS                                                                             5
          WORLD RECORD FOR SUPER LARGE 3D-PRINTER                                                            8

          ELECTROSPINNING FOR SKIN REGENERATION                                                               9
          E-CELLS LABORATORY OPENS AT BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY                                                     10

          FULL PROCESS DATA FROM MULTIPLE FLUID DISPENSERS
          NOW ACCESSIBLE THROUGH SINGLE PLC OR WEB INTERFACE                                                 11
          MAPPING GLOBAL ROOFTOP GROWTH FOR
          SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND URBAN PLANNING                                                              12
          OXFORD UNIVERSITY JOINS ZEBAI PROJECT                                                              13

          VILNIUS UNIVERSITY USES AI KNOWLEDGE TWINS TO TEACH LAW                                            14
                                                                                                                                 SMART MANUFACTURING
          FLOWER-COUNTING AI HELPS FRUIT FARMERS PREDICT CROPS                                               15
                                                                                                                                 AND ENGINEERING WEEK
          DEVELOPMENTS IN CYBERSECURITY                                                                      16

          DATA CENTRE NEWS                                                                                   18
          SPACE UPDATE                                                                                      20

          NPL TO JOIN CERN NEUTRON TIME-OF-FLIGHT FACILITY                                                  22
          ADVANCES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING AT MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY                                            23

          AMRC TO RECEIVE BRITAIN’S LARGEST ROBOT                                                           25                   Smart Manufacturing and Engineering                     •  How Simulation-based Digital Twins can
                                                                                                                                 Week, researched and produced by The                       drive Sustainability in Industry (Digital Twins
          INTRODUCING THE BIONIC BEE                                                                         27
                                                                                                                                 Manufacturer, and incorporating Smart                      and Twinn)
          FROM THE ARCHIVES                                                                                 28                   Factory Expo, Maintec and Design and                    •  The Digital Backbone of Modern
                                                                                                                                 Engineering Expo, took place at Birmingham’s
                                                                                                                                                                                            Manufacturing - Case Studies from Ilke
                                                                                                                                 National Exhibition Centre on 5th. and 6th.
                                                                                                                                                                                            Homes (Data Flow IQ Limited)
                                                                                                                                 June. Introduced by Event Director Grace
                                                                                                                                 Gilling, it was described as ‘a dynamic series          •  Towards Smart sustainable Manufacturing
                                                                                                                                 of co-located events’ and ‘the Glastonbury                 - Achieving Business Value with Industrial
                                                                                                                                 of industry’ with sub-events including Drives              Metaverse (T-Systems Northern Europe)
                                                                                                                                 and Controls, Air-Tech, Fluid Power and
                                                                                                                                                                                         •  Transforming Asset Maintenance with Cloud
                                                                                                                                 Systems, the Industrial Data and AI Summit,
          EDITORIAL TEAM                                     DESIGN TEAM                                                         the Manufacturing Digitalisation Summit,                   Technology - Kingspan’s Journey (Elecosoft
                                                                                                                                                                                            UK Limited and Kingspan Limited)
                                                                                                                                 the Automation and Robotics Accelerator
          James Clark                                        Wayne Hodkinson                                                     Symposium, The Manufacturer Top 100 and                 •  Digitalisation and Optimisation in the
          tel:    01200 538 640                              tel:    0151 528 8805                                               the Enginuity Skills Awards.                               Aviation Operations Ecosystem (Honeywell)
          email:  jim@spirecity.go-plus.net                  email:  wayne@whdsolutions.co.uk
                                                                                                                                 Each of these is featured in The SM and E Show          •  AI and Cyber Security - the Highs, Lows,
                                                                                                                                 Guide along with the event’s 465 exhibitors                Woes and Foes (Manchester Metropolitan
          ADMINISTRATION                                     REGISTERED OFFICE                                                   and an impressive line up of over 100 speakers.            University)
                                                                                                                                 Examples of the 120 presentations included:
                                                                                                                                                                                         •  Simple and Practical Predictive
          Alan Hollinshead                                   The Institution of Electronics
                                                                                                                                  •  Selecting the optimal Field-level Machine              Maintenance Tools using Artificial
          tel:    0151 203 9115                              118 Pall Mall, London,
          email:  admin@institutionofelectronics.ac.uk       England, SW1Y 5EA.                                                      Control Architecture (Festo Limited)                   Intelligence (Festo Limited)
                                                                                                                                  •  AI in the World of Spare Parts - A new              •  Sustainable Reconfiguration of Cyber-
                                                                                                                                     Approach to optimise (Sparrow Networks                 Physical Systems in the Era of Industry 5.0
          SALES AND MARKETING                                MEMBERSHIP                                                              GmbH)                                                  (Cranfield University School of Aerospace,
                                                                                                                                                                                            Transport and Manufacturing)
          Vicky Dawson                                       Tim Pass
          email:  arisiommi@live.com                         email:  membership@ institutionofelectronics.ac.uk
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