We must begin exploring these subjects with children earlier, encouraging education around topics like automation and DfMA, alongside digital skills, tools and techniques in degree courses.
In research laboratories, the work and team can change rapidly as new discoveries are made, equipment and technologies change, and there is the need to reduce or cease some operations while others are expanded..The people and skills change and there are changes in social and environmental demands.
This uncertainty drives a need for a combination of flexibility and adaptability..The laboratory estate needs to be adaptable in order to be expanded, contracted, and/or repurposed without significant planning issues, cost, time and impact to ongoing operations.The spaces within the estate need to allow for flexibility in the location of people, processes and equipment, with changes, wherever possible, carried out without the need for engineering and construction.
Finding the right balance is a critical factor..Almost universal among participants in the discussion, was a concern about the sheer amount of data now generated in laboratories.
This is one of the key drivers for smart systems, as the level of data already outstretches the human capability to examine, analyse, and make-sense of it.. Smart systems can provide a mechanism to inform decision making, but the sheer quantity and flow rate of new data also create practical problems.
Due to the data flow rate and a perceived lack of secure systems and protocols, WiFi is not used for laboratory instruments.‘To other people leaving school, I would 100% recommend an apprenticeship.’ he says.
‘Since leaving school I have learnt so much and I am only going to continue to learn.I feel I would not have come this far if I were to only stay on at sixth form.
It does not restrict any chances of going into university and you may even get some support from the company when wanting to achieve a degree...I will be in no debt.’.
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