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42 TECHNOLOGY
APPOINTS DIRECTOR
42 Technology has appointed
Dr Chris Floyd, previously
business development
director at Rolls-Royce, as a
non-executive director to its
board. Floyd brings a wealth of
experience in international
business development and
strategic management and
will play an advisory role in the
company’s growth and
development.
EXPERT RE-JOINS
MATERIALS COUNCIL
The Materials Processing
Institute has welcomed the
return of steel industry expert
Jon Bolton to its supreme
governing council. Bolton has
40 years’ experience in the
industry, and has co-chaired
the Steel Council, advising
government and providing
strategic leadership.
CPI CEO STEPS
DOWN
Nigel Perry, the CPI’s chief
executive ocer, has stepped
down. His successor, Frank
Millar, formerly CPI’s chief
operating ocer has been
appointed and will take on the
role of CEO from April 2020.
NEW COO AT
DASSAULT
Dassault Systèmes’ chief
nancial ocer Pascal Daloz
has been appointed chief
operating ocer. In this newly
created role, Daloz will lead
the Operations Executive
Committee, a new
organisational structure that
will support Dassault’s
ambition to drive innovation in
the Life sciences and
Healthcare, Manufacturing
industries, and Infrastructure
and Cities sectors. He retains
his role as CFO.
RAOUTYAOLN NOAMVOYU’SS SUB
PLYMOUTH-BASED MSUBS
LTD is to provide the Royal
Navy with a £1million, 30-
metre underwater test vehicle
with a range of up to 3,000
nautical miles.
In use, Manta XLUUV
(Extra Large Unmanned
Underwater Vehicle) could take part
in surveillance, reconnaissance, and
anti-submarine warfare operations.
“I am enormously excited about
the
potential
for remotely
piloted and autonomous
systems to increase our reach and
lethality, improve our e ciency and
reduce the number of people we have
to put in harm’s way,” said Admiral
are at the forefront
of underwater systems
technology; UK technological
developments such as this will be
key to the Royal Navy maintaining
its battle-winning edge in the
underwater environment.”
The rst phase of testing will
see an existing crewed submersible
re tted with autonomous control
systems. If successful, up to a further
£1.5m is available for further tests.
SOLUTION COFFEE TO TIME LAST CHALLENGE
MONTH’S Last month we asked you to come
TorqSense sensors are
up with a design for a method or
available in versions that can
device to make sheep shearing
be used at shaft speeds well
more e cient for the shearer and
in excess of 20,000rpm, easily
less stressful for the sheep.
meeting Lister Shearing’s
Out solution comes from
requirements in this area.
Oxfordshire-based torque
In addition, they have a high
measurement solution
overload margin, operate
and wireless load sensor
manufacturer Sensor
Technology Ltd (ST). Based
on SAW (surface acoustic
wave) technology, ST’s
TorqSense transducers play
an important role in product
development as an aid to
evaluating the performance
of miniature electric motors at
Gloucestershire-based Lister
Shearing, the oldest supplier
of animal shearing and clipping
equipment in the world.
An issue commonly
encountered with powered hand
tools is sourcing motors that
will combine high e ciency and
high torque output with smooth
operation and long life. This is
complicated further by the high
operating speed required from
the motors.
To address these issues,
Lister Shearing set up a motor
test rig that would allow the
performance of motors from
various suppliers to be compared
quickly and easily.
Tony
Radakin,
First Sea Lord.
“These XLUUVs
clockwise and
anticlockwise, feature integral
temperature monitoring, and
provide accurate data about
speed and power.
In this application, ST’s
TorqView software package was
used to combine data acquisition
with a real-time display of torque,
motor shaft speed, power and
temperature.
Robin Howell, chief
development engineer at Lister
Shearing, said: “After using
the rig for some time, I have
no doubt at all that it will help
us to produce equipment
that will set new standards
for performance in sheep
shearing.”
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