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Wideblue announced as finalists in British Engineering Excellence Awards

Wideblue are proud and delighted to be shortlisted for a British Engineering Excellence Award 2015.

Wideblue are finalists in the “Small Company of the Year” category. The awards event will be held on 29th October at the Hurlington Club in London. The awards are created by the UK’s Eureka and New Electronics magazines.

Phil Mayo, Chairman of the judging panel said “The strength of the shortlisted entries demonstrates all that is great about British design engineering.”

Wideblue achieve accreditation to ISO9001 and ISO13485

Wideblue are delighted to announce our recent accreditation to ISO9001 and ISO13485.

Although we are very familiar with the requirements of the Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), FDA requirements, new product CE marking, ISO9001 and ISO13485 and have in fact been designing products to these standards for many years, we can now announce our formal accreditation to the ISO 9001: 2008 and ISO 13485: 2003 quality standards.

After making the decision to implement the standards in January this year, we rewrote our quality system in March, followed up with an LRQA Stage 1 Audit in May and a final audit in June, achieving our full accreditation in August. This accreditation will allow us to more effectively integrate our customers’ new product development activities with our regulatory and CE marking activities.

Our full accreditation is applicable to the contract design and development of technology-based consumer, commercial, medical and scientific applications plus the contract development of technology-based medical devices.

Wideblue Purchase Thermal Camera for Project Work

The camera was bought to help with a project that required measuring heat flow and heat distribution in a prototype new product.

In addition to products that require heating or heat dissipation, the thermal camera can also aid in debugging electronics boards and checking for heat build-up during lifetime testing of new products.

The camera produces an infra red image allowing hot spots / cold spots to be easily located.

Wideblue Start New Project for 3D Remote Visual Inspection in the Nuclear Industry

This week saw the kick-off of our new “Mosaicing for Automatic Pipe Scanning” (MAPS) project. It will combine innovative new optical hardware and advanced image processing techniques for interactive 3D remote visual inspection (RVI) of pipework in the nuclear industry. This new project aims to develop a ruggedized prototype that will be deployed and demonstrated in a range of test environments, both in the laboratory and on-site.

The five-member consortium includes Inspectahire, University of Strathclyde, Wideblue Ltd, a nuclear site license company and is led by National Nuclear Laboratory. The inspection hardware will be developed by Wideblue Ltd and the analysis software will be developed by University of Strathclyde. The specification of the hardware will be driven by NNL, Inspectahire, and the nuclear site license company to meet both their existing needs and other emerging opportunities. The combination of skills within the consortium is unique, and as such this project will deliver a world-leading capability for nuclear inspection associated with routine inspection, reactor lifetime extension, and new build programmes both in the UK and overseas.

The MAPS project is part-funded by Innovate UK.

Wideblue Client Anacail Secures £2 Million in Equity Funding

Wideblue client Anacail announced today that they have just closed a £2 million equity investment that will enable it to develop its platform technology into a number of commercial applications. The investment consortium included new investor Sussex Place Ventures, existing investors IP Group plc and the Scottish Investment bank (SIB) as well as a small number of private individuals.

See more details here.

Wideblue worked with the Anacail team to develop a prototype benchtop high-level decontamination (HLD) and sterilisation system based around its novel platform technology for ozone creation and handling.