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Sourcing skills for next-gen factories
10 August 2021
Manufacturing firms must help inspire young engineers as production plants embrace digital technologies, Matthew Dale finds
Skills gap
Inspiring young minds
14 November 2019
Danny Reed, head of education and skills, PPMA Best, on the charity’s work to increase the number of female engineers
The fight for engineers
28 October 2019
Greg Blackman asks machine vision firms what strategies they employ when hiring staff
Sustainability, plastics and Brexit among topics being discussed at PPMA Total Show 2019
1 October 2019
Experts from IKEA, the British Plastics Federation and The Sunday Times set to create a forum for education, knowledge-sharing and debate
Engineering awareness campaign includes Hawk-Eye vision tech
2 April 2019
A campaign to raise awareness among young people about careers in engineering has drawn up a list of seven technologies rarely recognised as feats of engineering
Engineers of tomorrow
1 September 2016
Greg Blackman investigates the initiatives the machine vision sector is undertaking to inspire the next generation of engineers
Latest issue
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A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Glass inspection normally involves different illumination methods. Credit: MSTVision
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
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Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
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Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition
