Choosing change
Crux’s furthest commuter
Crux's furthest commuter As well as having the title as software engineer, I also have the title of Crux’s furthest commuter. Why? Well, I really value living close to my family and friends, that’s the reason I choose to commute from North Petherton south of Bridgwater to Crux located 36 miles away in the heart of Bristol. The exciting...
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Lab of the future
Improving lab efficiency through technology
Virtual and augmented reality is revolutionising the learning experience. Immersive experiences have the potential to contribute to faster learning, better retention and improved decision making. We've been exploring how these digital technologies could improve the modern laboratory workflow, improving the way lab technicians and test engineers work. Ensuring...
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The future of instructions for use
Tailoring content around user learning styles
As individuals we all approach, interact and retain information in unique ways. Despite an almost infinite number of individual preferences over how we receive information, there are three distinct groups that can generally help categorise and identify how someone naturally processes information. Visual learners prefer to observe and look over information...
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Coffee with Crux: Lettus Grow
Fresh perspectives on sustainability
Q. What stories that relate to sustainability have caught your attention so far this year? The first one that comes to mind is Cape Town’s recent water crisis. In simple terms the city’s reservoirs almost ran dry because of severe droughts and increased consumption by their growing population. At the beginning of the year the government...
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Wear Modelling at Crux
A vital tool in the engineers armoury
Whether developing a product from scratch or troubleshooting an existing design, computational simulation is a vital tool in the engineer’s armoury. At Crux, our in-house experts work with industry-leading Abaqus software. Ever driving to extend our technical competence, we increasingly push beyond traditional FEA methods to solve new and challenging problems....
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Big Data
Closing the Loop
‘Bad Medicine’ Freakonomics Radio podcast episode, Dr Vinay Prasad, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University, exposes the unsettling reality that ‘evidence-based medicine’ is still not as pervasive as we would all hope. Dr Vinay Prasad comments: “… one of the things...
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