Online degrees from top institutions slowly becoming a reality
Dr Steve Mackay7 July, 2016
Online education has grown in leaps and bounds in the last decade. However, the legitimacy of gaining an online tertiary degree has been questioned by several employers all around the world. The issue being that the trusted universities sometimes don't offer their most important courses online. What we're left with...Read More
Amazon auditions robotic picker arms for the future of warehouses
Dr Steve Mackay7 July, 2016
Amazon has announced the winner of a competition held to find the next big warehouse/factory robot arm picker. Teaming up with Germany's RoboCup, Amazon urged engineers to create robot item-pickers in a competition that "aimed to strengthen the ties between industrial and academic robotic communities. The winners would receive $25,000 for...Read More
Professional service robotics & industrial robotics
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
Another day, another robotics market research report. Robotics is an immensely important engineering industry that has the power to influence many other industries. Robotics has forever changed the industrial world. BCC Research, an industrial research firm, has published their latest investigation into Robotics: Technologies and Global Markets. The report focuses on...Read More
Global Smart Energy 2016 to 2020: GE Energy
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
The global smart energy market will see seven vendors rising up above the rest, to capitalize on the new era of clean energy production with an added layer of digitization as the Industrial Internet of Things. The seven leading vendors were determined by a study done by Technavio, which considered...Read More
Global Smart Energy 2016 to 2020: GE Energy
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
The global smart energy market will see seven vendors rising up above the rest, to capitalize on the new era of clean energy production with an added layer of digitization as the Industrial Internet of Things. The seven leading vendors were determined by a study done by Technavio, which considered...Read More
Noise generation: When its needed, when its not
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
Engineers have to account for noise in modern day engineering. The health of ears need to be protected. In the same breath, engineers need to ensure whatever they are manufacturing doesn't produce enough noise pollution to damage the hearing of consumers. Even the manufacturing machinery needs to abide by certain noise...Read More
Brexit Fallout: Engineering industries form super-group amidst uncertainty
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers and a list of 33 other engineering organizations have banded together after the results of the Brexit Referendum. The super-group of engineering industries want to collectively pressure the British government into making a good deal...Read More
Additive manufacturing: Metal tools & 3D models
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
3D printing - or rather 'additive manufacturing - has seen a boom in the engineering industry recently. We have reported on the multiple ways additive manufacturing is being used in engineering industries. Chinese construction companies are printing 400-square-meter villas in 45 days, mining equipment like longwall shearers have been printed...Read More
Netherlands and South Korea launch world-first IoT networks
Dr Steve Mackay6 July, 2016
The Internet of Things. It's a buzzword that won't be getting old anytime soon. The Internet of Things will see everyday objects connected to cloud-based solutions, with the ability to interact with other devices or live alongside each other in an interconnected network. Now, the first country-wide Internet of Things...Read More
14.3 million wireless IIoT-connected devices in 2015
Dr Steve Mackay5 July, 2016
30 billion Internet-of-Things-connected devices are supposed to up and running by 2020. Some of these connected devices will be in the industrial automation industry, that will ensure manufacturing of goods never dies. But how many were running in 2015? A study conducted by an IoT analyst firm named Berg Insight...Read More