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...public domain (in this case, the failure became a series of headline stories). Example 6 In 1992, the London ambulance service commissioned a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for getting ambulances and their crews to reported incidents. It was intended to replace an existing paper-based system. There were two notable failures of the new system in November 1992 that...

...health care. What about pensions? Finally, there is quality of life. So, what research is now being done that will benefit everyone in their later years? It turns out that the ageing process can be researched in a microgravity environment. Here the context of ‘bed rest’ is used. But how can resting in a bed simulate ageing? And does space travel make astronauts age?...

...publication takes place, the work will be peer-reviewed for flaws (and originality). It is also the case that, at any one time, there is a dominant view of how things work, within which most scientific endeavour in a particular field takes place. Every so often that dominant view turns out to be misconceived and/or there is a major discovery and a paradigm shift occurs....

...public. Other labels and brand names coined in the infancy of AM have lingered but to a lesser extent. However, engineers need a more robust terminology. In this course, additive manufacturing has been chosen as the term to use for two reasons: It is the term which satisfactorily describes the sector of manufacturing described in this course. A committee set up by the...