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Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of Commons on Ukraine UK Government guidance on trade with Ukraine, Belarus or Russia:
The latest results from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA) has demonstrated 16 new energy efficiency technologies that could significantly boost UK industry’s competitive and rapid transition to Net-Zero. If the technologies are adopted, up to 40.5TWh of energy could be saved by 2031.
Laboratory Management or Quality Systems have evolved greatly over the years. Anyone contemplating modernising or introducing a management system would benefit from attending our flexible, online Management Systems course, presented by Trevor Thompson at Best Measurement.
TÜV SÜD has launched its Academy to help UK organisations cost-effectively upskill their employees to optimise business performance, improve product compliance efficiency and minimise time to market.
The joint IMEKO TC-11 / TC-24 & EUROLAB hybrid conference is to be held in Dubrovnik, 16-20 October 2022, covering the topics “Measurement for a better life” and “Chemical measurements towards a sustainable future”.
IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) is launching a series of virtual discussions (using MS-TEAMS) worldwide in 2022.
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science will be celebrated on Friday 11 February 2022. Created in 2015 to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the Day aims to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and technology.
My Green Lab’s event on Zero Carbon Leadership in Life Science will be held on February 10, 2022 4pm CET / 3pm UK / 10am EST. This event represents the European scientific community’s approach to sustainability, featuring speakers from leading organisations around the continent.
Element Materials Technology Group (Element or the Group), testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) services company, has been acquired by Temasek from Bridgepoint.
Markes International is relaunching its supplies and consumables business unit as the Sampling Technologies team. The new team consists of product and application specialists that can support sample preparation and gas chromatography–mass spectroscopy workflows.
No measurement is ever completely exact; there is always a degree of doubt about its accuracy. This degree of doubt is quantified by the uncertainty. The effects of measurement uncertainty manifest themselves across all industrial sectors, resulting in significant financial exposure. In the field of flow measurement, measurement uncertainty is particularly important when the fluid being metered is of high value where small errors in flow measurement could potentially cost the operator large amounts of money.
The NPL Digital Manufacturing Group have been developing techniques to support the introduction of Machine Learning in smaller manufacturing businesses and would like to run trials in existing businesses that have a high degree of confidence in their internal quality systems, to see if applied machine learning might be able to augment or automate some of the steps in the qualification of component parts during manufacture, post manufacture and post assembly.