
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

How digital twins can help confront the challenges of scaling up cultured protein
In the world of bioprocessing engineering, companies developing cultured meat and other cultured ingredients face both technical and financial challenges at each step up in scale. Here, Steve Thomas and James Westley explain how sophisticated predictive models – digital twins – that couple biology, heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid dynamics can help…
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Digital service innovation
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Synthetic biology

Our core technology is at the heart of the world’s first FDA-approved fully at-home COVID-19 test
The rapid, at home COVID-19 antigen test from digital diagnostics company Ellume features core technology from Cambridge Consultants. Read how this FDA approved test is set to be a game-changer in the global pandemic.
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Sensing

It’s the radical innovators who will unlock a sustainable future for medical devices
Despite intense media focus and impassioned societal debate, meaningful progress on climate change is a glacially slow business - this is particularly true in the medical device sector. Dan Cowen explores how radical technological innovation is the way forward.
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Physical sciences
- Product realisation
- Sensing

Our wet shave challenge: how fluid delivery innovation can enable a ‘device plus chemistry’ future
The ‘device plus chemistry’ movement is making its presence felt in areas such as home care and beverages as well as oral care and beauty.
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Industrial design
- Mechanical engineering
- User Experience (UX)

Our baby bottle challenge: highlighting fluid expertise that delivers across industries
Fluid delivery is harder than it looks. And if precise and robust control of delivery can dramatically enhance the convenience, performance and user experience of a product, the opposite can undermine its reputation at a stroke.
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Industrial design
- Mechanical engineering
- User Experience (UX)

Reducing risk with cross-sector thinking: an aeroponics example
Leveraging a broad range of technical experiences, from seemingly unrelated fields can help solve critical problems. This example looks at aeroponics in terms of challenges within the vertical farming sector, showing how insight in the right place can transform work across industries...
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Mechanical engineering
- Physical sciences

Technology can drive meaningful carbon reduction in the housing sector
The UK government is committed to constructing 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s, but the Climate Change Act dictates that the country must halve its emissions in new buildings by 2030. With the thermal ...
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Fluids & thermodynamics

Creating hyper-personalized experiences
Technology can be used as an enabler to bring personalization to a mass scale. An integrated approach throughout development, considering both the user journey and technical requirements, will deliver a successful product.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital health
- Digital service innovation
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Industrial design

Commercial and technical drivers for vertical farming
When considering the business case for a vertical farm - should you make or buy the technology?
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Robotics
- Sensing

Low cost nano-climate control for vertical farming
Vertical farming pushes the boundaries of a microclimate. But while lighting and sensors have evolved, cooling systems are almost identical to those first introduced in the 1900s. Vertical farming pushes the boundaries...
- Dispense
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Mechanical engineering

2018 Giant Health Event - The Future is FemTech
Menopause is in the spotlight helped by coverage from the BBC and other websites. Nicola Millar presented how technology can provide drug-free alternatives to help women going through menopause.
- Dispense
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Mechanical engineering
- Sensing

Age related change and how technology can help us achieve lifelong health
We’re all aware that we’re getting older and that our population is living longer. But what are we doing about it? How are we adapting and learning to plan for lifelong health? If we’re honest, many individuals are probably...
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Industrial design
- Innovation management
- Mechanical engineering