Tag: IndustrialInnovation
The F1 effect – motorsport precision on a factory floor
Formula One (F1) leaves no room for error. At 300km/h, a component tolerance measured in microns can mean the difference between a podium finish and a wreck. The machines that make this precision possible do not remain on the racetrack. Eventually, they find their way into the wider world of advanced manufacturing. This year, three of them arrived at our organisation in Lanseria, Gauteng.
Elevated innovation – the brakes that accelerated wealth?
Nobody likes a know-it-all. In Shirley Valentine, the British cult classic, a headmistress asks her class, “What is man’s greatest invention?” Answers fly - Sputnik, the Hoover, the aeroplane, the internal combustion engine. Shirley knows the answer but is ignored in favour of the usual teacher’s pets. Only when no raised hands remain does the headmistress relent: “Oh, very well, Shirley. You might as well get it wrong along with everybody else.”
