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MacRobert Award
The UK's premier award for innovation in engineering
2007 Finalists
Intelligent Orthopaedics Ltd
This company’s first product STORM is a re-usable
surgical device employed in the operating theatre to
help surgeons reduce fractures throughout the human
tibia. The simplicity of the design is universally
recognised by the surgical community as being an
elegant innovation in the treatment of unstable
fractures. STORM is a certified medical device that
helps the surgeon to reduce a lower leg fracture and
support it while an appropriate fixation is applied.
The simplicity hides patented, innovative features
that have come about through 15 years of research
and development and the application of world-class
engineering design.
Team members: Technical Director Dr Ian
Moorcroft, Managing Director Prof Peter Ogrodnik and
Clinical Director Peter Thomas
www.intelligent-orthopaedics.co.uk/
Process Systems Enterprise Ltd
This company’s gPROMS advanced mathematical modelling software
supports innovation in design and operation of
processes and products across the whole range of the
process industries from oil, gas and chemicals to
new energy technologies and pharmaceuticals. gPROMS’
main innovation is to allow engineers to build and
solve extremely complex models simply by describing
the physical and chemical phenomena that are taking
place, without worrying about the details of the
mathematical solution. The reduces the time and
effort required for modelling by several orders of
magnitude and also provides important benefits in
the accuracy and long-term maintainability of the
model.
Team members: Managing Director Prof Costas
Pantelides, Strategy Consultants Prof Sandro
Macchietto and Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos, Directors
Mark Matzopoulos and Prof Nilay Shah
www.psenterprise.com/news/070601_macrobert.html
Roger Bullivant Limited
Next to fire and flood, subsidence is the
homeowner’s worst fear. Roger Bullivant identified
the need for a guaranteed foundation which would
reassure the householder that their property is as
solid as a rock. The company has been nominated for
the SystemFirst Foundation Solution that utilises a
steel beam in place of the pre-cast concrete and
requires no trench excavation and the components are
manufactured off-site. Today this pre-cast
foundation system of piles, caps and beams is
specified by every major house builder in the UK and
offer a 75 per cent time saving compared with
traditional foundations. The innovative design also
improves ease of manoeuvring of components and has
reduced the number of on-site injuries.
Team members: Chairman Roger Bullivant and a
dedicated team at the company
www.roger-bullivant.co.uk/web/home.htm
Transitive
An engineering constraint of the past 50 years in
computing has been that software applications need
to be re-written for each different hardware system
that needs to run them. Transitive’s innovative
QuickTransit product allows software applications to
run on different central processing units (CPUs) and
operating systems, without any change to the
applications’ course code or binaries. Transitive’s
highest profile application is in new Apple
Macintosh computers – Apple describes Rosetta as
“the most amazing software you’ll never see”, which
neatly captures the innovation contained in
QuickTransit – and its complete transparency.
Team members: Chief Technology Officer Alasdair
Rawsthorne, Director of Engineering Jason Souloglou,
Principal Engineer Dr Daniel Owen, Senior Manager
Miles Howson and Director of Engineering Alan
Robinson
www.transitive.com/
The four finalists for the 2007 Royal Academy of
Engineering MacRobert Award represent the very best
of British innovation. Tomorrow evening, Tuesday 5
June, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, presents
the £50,000 prize to the winner.
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