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Meet Rob, Lucid’s latest intern

Meet Rob, Lucid’s latest intern

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Lucid’s team first met Rob Hill when we judged a design completion at Knutsford High School.

He impressed us then, but we were even more impressed that he stayed in touch with us afterwards. After all, tenacity and network-building are central to the way we work as a business!
We’ve got a highly-experienced team at Lucid, but we know that the future of our business – and the future of the industry – depends on nurturing the best talent. Future designers like Rob.
We were delighted to offer Rob a year’s placement with us as part of his degree at Loughborough University. So far, he’s been involved in projects for the British Industrial Design Association, met many other leading designers, gained valuable experience in research, 3D CAD, 3D print and user needs definition.
For Rob, it has been a great opportunity. He understands the importance of making great personal contacts in the industry, and maintaining them.
We’re always interested in meeting people who could strengthen our team now, or in the future.

Could you be  part of our team?  Introduce yourself with an email to  ideas@lucidinnovation.com

Lucid wins £1m NHS contract to develop better solutions for faecal incontinence

Lucid wins £1m NHS contract to develop better solutions for faecal incontinence

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SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England Initiative has contracted to Lucid to help reduce the impact of frailty with a more accessible diagnostic and therapeutic device.

 

There is anecdotal evidence that 50% of people in residential care are there because they have problems with incontinence.  NICE have an objective to triple diagnosis and enable earlier, more conservative interventions.
Professor Hamdy, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Salford NHS Trust and Professor of Neurogastroenterology at the University of Manchester approached us with an original concept.  We are working with a team of surgeons, continence and clinical specialists as well as Professor Hamdy and the University of Manchester’s Intellectual Property company to develop a reliable and inexpensive system called An-i-sys.
In primary care, An-i-sys will be an improvement on the basic digital examination and will provide comprehensive quantitative data.  Highly trained community based, continence specialist nurses will be able to use the system to enable earlier referral.
In secondary care, rapid calibration and set up of An-i-sys will increase capacity.  Potential paediatric applications including pre-and post-surgical uses have also been identified.
This is a great collaboration that will produce a system that will improve the lives of many ageing people. It means patients can be diagnosed and treated faster and have their dignity restored.  If more people can remain in their homes the pressure on social care services will be vastly reduced.
For us it has been a brilliant opportunity to combine our electronic and software skills with our ISO 13485 system.  We plan to take that further and extend our involvement into the supply chain and manufacture the device as well.
 
The Shape of Things to Come – How to Use Design and New Product Development for Commercial Success

The Shape of Things to Come – How to Use Design and New Product Development for Commercial Success

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Lucid Join Lucid MD, Alistair Williamson at Southern Manufacturing and Electronics at 3pm, 21 March 2017, at Five in Farnborough.

The  seminar focusses on ways to discover things that people will value in future – and using the know-how to create products that deliver sustainable business advantage. Alistair will discuss how to combine opportunity spotting, feasibility studies, market research, brand strategy and prototyping to deliver effective mechanical and electronic design. And then take that design onto problem free manufacture.
Using case studies, Alistair will illustrate how the Lucid team and others have used design thinking and technical know-how to help businesses compete more successfully. Hopefully there’ll be some lively debate and that everyone will find the easy-to-implement takeaways useful.

For more information, visit www.industrysouth.co.uk

 

Embedded Design Engineer Vacancy

Embedded Design Engineer Vacancy

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Lucid is looking for a electronics design engineers, with microcontroller experience to join our multidisciplinary team.

Can you demonstrate 10 4 or more years real time embedded software development?

Ideally you will have used assembler, C, C++, on bare metal, with RTOS, MPLAB, Energia and Arduino tools.

Interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and actuators is useful experience.  RF design know-how is important, including design for EMC.

PCB design experience could include packages such as Mentor Graphics, Altium, Cadstar, or Allegro.

We’ll be looking for evidence of your use of ARM, dsPIC series and Texas CC1310/5969, or similar chips.  A background in control theory, digital signal processing and computer vision would be good.   Knowledge of Windows, Linux, Android and iOS programming or scripting languages and PSPIC/Hyperlynx/EZNEC tools will help.

This is a great opportunity to develop IOT and similarly challenging devices for highly regulated industries.  Please no agencies.  Applications from people without current UK work visas cannot be considered.

To apply, please email a CV to ideas@lucidinnovation.com