As Project Manager for the new EEMUA Portal, I want to welcome you to its first – and EEMUA’s first – blog post. We’ll be blogging quite regularly on topics of interest to members, but to start at the beginning, here is a whistle stop tour of the Portal itself. Blogs are just...
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We all get old. It’s something I’m reminded of every day. I’m sure the clicking of my knees as I get out of bed gets louder every morning. The process of ageing isn’t restricted to people either. Our cat, once a highly effective mouser, now spends most of its time sleeping, ...
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I recently attended the Better Regulation Executive’s (BRE) event to publicise the results and implications of its review of how the Competent Authority (CA) carries out its ‘interventions’. Reassuringly, I left with a renewed confidence that common sense can prevail. For th...
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EEMUA held its 65th Annual General Meeting at the end of November 2014, as well as a biannual Council meeting. This was an opportunity for EEMUA’s members to learn more about the achievements of the Association over the preceding six months, and to guide its direction, based ...
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The benefits of standards themselves are well understood; they enable trade, improve quality levels and raise the bar in terms of both safety and environmental performance. The benefits of making standards however are often underappreciated. For those involved, it helps them ...
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A sad loss in 2014 was the death on 19 November of Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky. Better known as Mike Nichols, he was a comedian who became a notable director, winning an Academy Award for the cult film “The Graduate” in 1967. As an incorrigible engineer, the thing that always st...
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As if I need to tell you that this is the age of social networking, instant updates and 24/7 communications. So much for the halcyon days of early computing, when those futurologists thought the main challenge facing us by now would be what to do with our leisure time! Again...
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A week on from Collaborate 2015 , things are just about settling down in the EEMUA office with a debrief meeting and the collation of some useful ‘lessons learned’ for next time. Thanks to all those who provided feedback. At my first Collaborate event, I was looking forward...
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Several weeks on from Collaborate 2015 , the dust has settled on the event, so it feels like a good time to review the various workshops and presentations with a mechanical theme. I’d like to repeat EEMUA’s thanks to the member company participants that led those sessions fo...
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They say that “to stand still is to fall behind”* but as I leave EEMUA at the end of May 2015 for adventures in Australia, I would like to take the risk of pausing for the length of this blog to reflect on one of the many changes that has occurred within EEMUA over the last c...
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