Automated Mineralogy Analysis at Plymouth EMC

On the 28th November, Oxford Instruments and the EMC are holding a demonstration of Oxford's new automated mineral identification and analysis software. With an overview in the morning and a practical demonstration on the new Electron Microscopes at Plymouth, INCA Mineral aims to demonstrate how the rapid automated software can identify, quanitfy, determine liberation amounts and particle sizes in geological samples.

For registration details, invite and programme for the day, please follow the relevant link.
If you are a Plymouth academic or researcher, please find details of a separate session being held on the morning of the 29th November by following the link here.

Please check back regularly for news of other forthcoming events. We will soon be announcing a day specifically aimed at the frozenn food and ice cream industry schedualed for the end of January 2013.

For further information or help, please email emc@plymouth.ac.uk, or ring the Enterprise Solutions Gateway on 0800 052 5600, and ask to speak to someone in the Electron Microscopy Centre.

Supporting Manufacturing in the South West MAS workshop

The EM centre is exhibiting at the MAS South West workshop 'Supporting Manufacturing in the South West' being held at Plymouth University on 8th November.

The half-day interactive workshop will identify all the support which exists for manufacturers and how it can be accessed. If you are a manufacturer, or you provide advice for manufacturers in any way, then this workshop will enable you to find out:

• What funding is available
• How to access finance
• How to up-skill your workforce
• Apprenticeships: The benefits and support
• What resources Universities/Colleges can offer
• What membership organisations can do to help

For more details, click here to go to the MAS events webpage.

EMC Tour after iNet Breakfast meeting

On the 19th October, Plymouth plays host to the Microelectronics iNet. The breakfast meeting is being held to promote and explain the new funding competition for regional SME's. Afterwards there be the opportunity to tour the Electron Microscopy Centre to see how the facility can help support projects.

Core areas in microelectronics, phontonics and digital communications that the iNet is looking to support include

• Power management, and energy efficient sustainable technology
• Smart grids
• Transport, including marine
• Healthcare, wellbeing and medical electronics
• Smart communities
• Test and verification
• Industrial, instrumentation
• M2M communications
• Security

For more information or to book a place please follow the link.

Invitation MTI'12 - Torquay's Riveria Centre

Come and meet the EM Centre at the MTI exhibition on Stand 16 at the Manufacturing, Technology and Innovation Conference at the Riveria Centre on the 18th October. Places are Free to delegates so book your place by registering here.
Find out about free support from centre to qualifying SME's.