Innovation: The key to surviving and thriving in adversity

If we’ve learnt anything from the challenges of the last few years, it’s that engineers are nothing if not resilient. As a community, they are able not only to withstand hardship, but to use it as a springboard from which to generate new ways to thrive.

28/04/2023 16:32:18

A couple of news items passed my desk recently which I think perfectly illustrate this.

The first concerns a father and son duo from Herefordshire who have teamed up to change the way that designers and engineers make products.

As the old saying goes, “necessity breeds innovation”, and this is certainly true in the case of Ryland and Michael Johnson. Ryland, an experienced patternmaker with 40 years’ experience under his belt, recognised a need to make computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software more efficient and accessible. He and his son, Michael, created CloudMilling, industry’s first and only cloud-native CAM solution, which can support almost any design job in a matter of seconds.

Read the full article in DPA's May issue