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CONTENTS

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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