Imagine being able to cut your travel time from several hours to mere minutes. DPA’s Assistant Editor, Sophia Bell, explores the Hyperloop concept and whether or not it’s a fast track to the future.
UK manufacturers are advised to ensure robust safety checks, as well as competency assessments for staff, are carried out before restarting machinery that has been left idle due to lockdown restrictions or social distancing.
Back in 2015, a survey of business owners by Virgin Media Business predicted that 60 percent of office-based employees would regularly work from home by 2022. This year, global disruption saw us prematurely exceed this figure.
Britain’s manufacturers, leading unions, skills champions and industry bodies are calling on the government to take urgent action to safeguard the skills the country’s economy needs now and in the future.
In my column this month, I thought we could take a look at and celebrate the life of one of the key engineers who helped create the computer mouse – William English – who sadly passed away on 26 July at 91 years of age.