It was a busy Friday at Scottow Enterprise Park! We're excited share the story of the Jaguar arriving back at the RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre over the coming weeks 🛩
Two very different meetings this week provided two very different examples of impressive engineering. Lovely to see the beautiful Lotus Evija on display and also to welcome a Jaguar back to Scottow. Hethel Innovation
Regulation-driven innovation—quite the topic nowadays. It is interesting to see how differently even neighboring market landscapes can evolve based on how they are regulated. Suddenly what is perfectly acceptable in one may be considered outdated in another. Consider the case of the band brake. What was once an industry standard has become less favored in recent times due to its safety drawbacks. It's a straightforward, easy to maintain, no hassle solution... until it fails. ❌ Which, unfortunately, happens. Then you have several tons of steel moving overhead with no effective stopping mechanism. Surprisingly, the solution is still widely used in some areas. If only you could simply replace it with something more modern such as a water-cooled disc brake! 🔧 But even this in isolation is costly, and actually wholly unfeasible in many cases. The brake is a part of the system, so it’s also about where to put it and how to control it. You can easily come to a conclusion that the only solution for your machine is to replace it altogether—with costs of such an action being basically prohibitive. For those seeking to align closer to a global benchmark while also needing to manage the considerable costs associated with adopting entirely new machinery, there fortunately is another way forward. … Yes. It’s overhauling.
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Great talk with William Connolly who succinctly described 3 types of innovation: 1. I know what I want to do and I know how to do it 2. I know what I want to do and don’t know how to do it 3. I don’t yet know what I want to do and probably won’t know how to do it when I figure out what to do And the last is breakthrough innovation. 42 Technology #innovation London Packaging Week
If you think that innovation is all about something entirely new, think again! 🤔 Innovation can be found in the most unlikely of places. Just check out this innovative bathtub from Kohler ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gpy9sZkR #innovation
