Author: Ray Keefe

  • Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards Finalists 2014

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    Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 I recently spotlighted the Endeavour Awards which are held on the first evening of National Manufacturing Week. This is where we celebrate manufacturing success stories each year. What I didn’t mention at the time was that we had entered this year for the first time.   The awards are run…

  • Tetris: Big Time

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    Tetris Tetris was the first Russian game exported to the USA. It is a geometric puzzle matching game where falling clusters of squares can be rotated before they hit the bottom. The aim is to form rows with no gaps. These disappear and the stack drops 1 level. The longer you can keep rows disappearing,…

  • Practical Innovation

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    Innovation Innovation is always a topic of interest to me. This post covers an approach to Innovation that I found helpful and was inspired by Frank Connolly of Think Quick. He is working with SEMMA as part of their Future of Manufacturing project which we are supporting.   The first thing that always comes up…

  • Automation: Rubik’s Cube

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    Automated Solving of Rubik’s Cube The whole point of Automation is to take something that was manually done, and do it via a machine or mechanism in a controlled manner. With more and more software and intelligence being available to use for any purpose, it isn’t surprising that we are looking at more and more…

  • Visualisation: Part 4

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    Viewpoints matter How does the world look to you?   This is often one of the areas where Engineers and Customers can get out of step. And in particular, is a big issue for Software Development and IT systems. Check out the image below.   Technical professionals such as Engineers and Software Developers tend to…