NEWS | EUREKA!
Strengthening UK
digital design capability
THE CENTRE FOR Modelling
& Simulation (CFMS), an
independent, not-forpro
t specialist in digital
engineering, has entered
into a three-year partnership
with the Virtual Engineering
Centre (VEC), a digital
engineering impact centre at
the University of Liverpool,
to jointly deliver technologies
that will accelerate the design
of high value products and
services.
Sam Paice, chief operating
Lynn Dwyer, head of
Similar in size and
o cer at CFMS, said: “We’re
commercial for the VEC,
ambition, both organisations
delighted to partner with
added: “By bringing together
are dedicated to the creation
the VEC and to capitalise
our resources, we hope
of a stronger national
on our uni ed strengths to
to continue developing
resource in digital design.
deliver increased productivity
industrial digitalisation to
The partnership provides
across high value design
further bene t business.
a stronger focus to deliver
organisations. Together, we
CFMS has signi cant
critical national skills and
hope to lead, develop, and
experience and a proven
capability development in the
demonstrate the value and
track record in this area,
eld of digital engineering,
real delivery of technological
so we’re looking forward
to encourage increased
change that enables
to collaborating with the
investment and helping
digitalisation, innovation and
team to prepare for the
to build new collaborative
business transformation in
next generation of design
opportunities across the UK.
the global marketplace.”
services.”
SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH’S COFFEE TIMECHALLENGE
The solution to last month’s Co ee Time
Challenge of how to prevent sleepers in a
double bed from disturbing one another by
taking up too much space comes from – of
all people – Ford.
The Lane-Keeping bed can identify
when a ‘sel sh sleeper’ has rolled onto
their partner’s side of the mattress and act
to put them back in their place.
The smart bed borrows a technology
from Ford’s cars called Lane-Keeping
Aid. This feature monitors road
markings ahead of the vehicle and
‘nudges’ the steering wheel in the
opposite direction if it senses the driver
is veering too close to another lane.
The prototype bed is part of Ford’s
Interventions series, which applies the
company’s automotive experience
to help solve everyday problems. It’s
also a promotional exercise to bring
consumers’ attention to car features they
may have overlooked.
“Lane-Keeping Aid in our cars can make
driving easier and more comfortable,” said
Ford of Europe marketing communications
director Anthony Ireson. “We thought
that showing how similar thinking could
be applied to a bed would be a great way to
highlight to drivers a technology that they
might not previously have been aware of.”
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