Why is silicon one of the most useful elements?
A piece of high school Chemistry homework led to an in-depth exploration of the element silicon last month. Tasked with creating a leaflet about an element, Silicon was perhaps not the obvious choice but it was a learning experience for both the student, and the parent. Silicon was discovered by…
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Fundraising for North West Air Ambulance
In April we announced our charity partner for the next (financial) year. Following on from fundraising for Bay Search and Rescue, we started to support another life-saving charity, North West Air Ambulance. The charity provide advanced medical crew and equipment to patients when they need it most and are fully-funded…
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What is…?
At Like Technologies, we like it when people ask questions, it’s something we actively encourage across our engineering, administration and leadership teams. Here, we’ve summarised the most common questions you’ve searched for (and found) on our website in 2022. What is the Difference Between Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering? Re-engineering and…
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Challenges and opportunities within ElecTech
We’re members of the ElecTech Innovation Cluster and attended their recent event held at Lancaster and Morecambe College on 20th October, 2022. With a room full of people who actively work within or support the ElecTech sector, we were invited to participate in a lightning round. We used the opportunity…
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Discovery through curiosity
During a lunchtime river walk, one of our engineers noticed a door was open to a building he often passes. A brief conversation led to an invite from Brian Jefferson to the Like Technologies team to come and visit Halton Lune Hydro. This community-powered hydro, located just a short…
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Pulse to Pneumatic Project – Bespoke Hardware Design
Our customer, EDF at Torness, were experiencing some issues on installation of their new Pulse to Pneumatic converters at Torness Power Station. They had replaced their existing converters from the pneumatic/mechanical originals with a much smaller electronic alternative. These ageing pieces of equipment had a high failure rate and were…
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What is re-engineering?
Companies working within industrial environments are increasingly under pressure from the demands of modern-day and the desire to have solutions to a problem at the click of a finger. Rising customer demands puts pressure on these industries specifically when output and performance needs to be at a maximum but downtime is…
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What happens when your original equipment manufacturer no longer supplies your equipment?
It’s common within industrial environments to still operate legacy equipment. To update existing equipment can be time-consuming and costly. Yet what happens when your original equipment manufacturer (OEM) no longer supports or supplies the equipment you use? Ageing and obsolescence of said equipment then becomes a risk to your business,…
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International Women in Engineering Day 2022
To celebrate this year’s International Women in Engineering Day we want to shine a spotlight on some of the incredible women that work within our team. Although a small company, we are proud to say that 29% of our team are female. A higher statistic than the 19% overall UK…
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