Medical Howthe processworks
The Technology Strategy Board’s system works through competitions in which business-led consortia bid for research and development funding. The competitions tend to relate to fairly narrow areas of specialisation within rather larger programmes. One of the competitions that is open
at the moment is in the area of regenerative medicine therapeutics: this is the second competitive process for this and the TSB will allocate funding of up to £2.5 million when the bids are all in later this year. It is part of a
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bigger £21.5 million programme on regenerative medicine, which covers the science and technology of replacing or regenerating human tissues or organs to restore normal function. The competition specifically
demands that successful consortia take existing research projects and develop products or systems from them. The background briefing for the competition identifies four development issues that regenerative medicine products face that projects might tackle: ■ preclinical areas such as testing
itoring system, for controlled and critical environments. The enclosure is easy to keep clean and
thematerial is resistant to cleaning chemicals typically used in life sciences. The product can be used on a cleanroom wall with integrated probe for room monitoring or with a remote probe assembly for chamber or duct installation.
efficacy and safety, developing quality control protocols and metrology for particular products; ■ formulation and delivery issues, such as incorporating products into delivery devices or even into scaffolds for rebuilding tissue; ■ establishing clinical trials, setting up the trials themselves or preparing products or ideas for submission to regulatory authorities; and ■ scale-up and manufacturing, which can be setting up the production of small batches for preclinical and clinical
Showschedule
Four shows are taking place at the NEC, Birmingham, on 6-7 April under the combined banner of Advanced Manufacturing UK. They are: ■ Medtec UK, medical device technology and design exhibition; ■ 3C UK, Contamination Control and Cleanrooms exhibition; ■ MTec, the measurement and instrumentation show; ■ MDM, Midlands Design & Manufacturing Exhibition. More information at
www.canontradeshows.com/expo
Optris Optris has upgraded its non-contact in- frared thermometers (pictured above)with the CS LT,which nowhas a temperature range up to 1030°C. It has also added an in- telligent LEDdisplay that can be used as a target help or to showthe condition of the device through self-diagnosis in, for exam- ple, overheating. There is also a visual alarmand a temperature code indication. An additional feature is an “ambient
derating” function in which the CS LT is calibrated at different ambient temperatures and can then take ambient temperature into account in operation. Optical resolution has been enhanced to 15:1 and the response time to 25ms. A compact version, the CSmed LT, is
intended for smallmedical devices and products with a length of 87mmand a inside width of only 12mm.
Alrad Imaging Alrad Imaging’s machine vision and industrial imaging cameras (pictured right), frame grab- bers, lighting and lasers nowinclude
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the AViiVA EM4 frome2v which offers res- olutions of up to 4096 pixels and new CCD image sensors. ThemvBlueFox-MLC fromMatrix
Vision is a compact single-board camera with high image quality and a very high frame rate suited for embedded applications. Coherent’s Lasiris SNF laser transforms
the familiar laser dot into a wide range of structured light patterns including single andmultiple laser lines with uniformity down to +/-15%. Straight laser lines are projected by allowing one dimension of light to fan out whilemaintaining tight control over the other, resulting in a uniformsheet-of-light.
Stemmer Imaging Stemmer Imaging suppliesmulti- and single-point inspec- tion systems (pic- tured right) from Dalsa and the CVS Image Station Com- pact EOS-1000 fea- turing Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. Dalsa’s single
point inspection systems include theHD version of BOA intelligent cameras, which are intelligent vision systems designed for
EFD International EFDInternational’sOptimumfluid dis- pensing and filling systems (pictured above) provide even, laminar flowofwatery low viscosity fluids to thick viscousmaterials. Innovative internal geometry eliminates
“dead spots” that could trap air bubbles with pistons that channel fluid during the filling process. Multi-valve controllers include the
ValveMate 8000 and 8040: until now, one valve was usually paired with one ValveMate controller. The ValveMate 8000 can operate up to four dispense valves, while the ValveMate 8040 will control one or two spray valves. ■
trials as well as full-scale manufacture. The timescale on this competition is
a short one: it was announced on 3 February, meetings to bring potential consortia together were held just two weeks later and the actual competition then opens on 14 March, with submissions due in five weeks later. The TSB then invites applicants back for a second stage application in May, sets a deadline of June for them to declare their intention to put in a bid and then expects the applications to be completed by 20 July.
factory floor deployment. Formulti-point inspection, the Geva industrial controller provides expandable GigE Vision camera interfaces for applications requiring powerful processing, high-resolution or multiple cameras. Stemmer’s CVS Image Station Compact
EOS-1000 is an embedded computer systemfor industrial imaging applications that combines high-performance computing capability with four individual gigabit ethernet camera ports each featuring Power over Ethernet technology. The EOS-1000 comes in a compact, robust housing designed to withstand vibrations up to 5G and is aimed at automation applications including 3D vision robotic guidance.
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