The world of business is becoming increasingly connected and the manufacturing industry is no exception. We live in an age where the transfer of information is commonplace and used to great effect in developing new technologies. Sensors monitor everything from traffic flow to natural disasters.
A recent Royal Society paper acknowledged the National Physical Laboratory’s (NPL) hitherto unreported key role in the development of modern flat-panel displays. It brought to light the work of NPL’s Roger Partridge in the 1970s on organic solid-state emitters.
It was only last month that I stated, in a piece for the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) e-bulletin, that although the outlook for 2010 was encouraging, it was important to remember that the UK economy was still not free from the financial strain of the recession.
