The 2008 Manufacturing in FP7 Conference on the 16th and 17th January has built upon the success of its predecessor in 2007. The conference was attended by some 130 delegates and provided in-depth information about the manufacturing topics addressed in both Theme 3 (ICT) and Theme 4 (NMP) of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme (FP7).

Speakers at the conference included key and influential people from within the European Commission NMP, ICT programmes and the Manufuture community. In addition to these speakers there were experts in proposal preparation and evaluation giving insights into what makes a successful project proposal. Plus representatives of European SMEs and new EU member states providing their perspectives on the FP7 programme.

Salary circa £19,000pa pro rata

Wellstream is a dynamic, forward thinking, international company manufacturing a comprehensive portfolio of unbonded flexible pipeline products for the oil and gas industry.

The associate will be employed by Newcastle University but will work at Wellstream’s UK manufacturing site on the banks of the River Tyne at Walker Riverside. Advice and support will be provided by both industrial and academic personnel.

The project involves the practical application of statistics for process improvement, the use of comparative tests, measurement system analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, lean six sigma and statistical software.

The Tai-Chi FP6 IST project lead by the MEC with Clausthal University of Technology as a partner has won the Best Exhibit prize at the IST 2006 Event held in Helsinki, Finland

Tai-Chi “Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction” aims to develop acoustics-based remote sensing technology which can be adapted to virtually any physical object to create tangible interfaces, allowing the user to communicate freely with a computer, an interactive system or the cyber-world by means of an arbitrary object from the environment. The methods for contact point localisation developed in Tai-Chi utilise the location-signature embedded in the acoustic wave patterns caused by contact, as well as triangulation and acoustic holography.

Tai-Chi homepage http://www.taichi.cf.ac.uk/

CHARPAN - Charged Particle Nanotech is an Integrated Project (research priority NMP) started on 1 April 2005.

CHARPAN is driven by industrial needs for new efficient production technologies for the fabrication of complex 2D and 3D surface structures necessary in numerous nanotechnology devices such as templates for nanoimprint applications.

CHARPAN is based on the expertise of a team of 18 partners from industry, academia and research institutes from 10 countries (Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom). The project is coordinated by IMS, Vienna, Austria (IMS – Ionen Mikrofabrikations Systeme GmbH).

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