1. Boosting Local Enterprise
6th December 2012

2. Session 1 – Case Studies
Ed Chester
– Space IDEAS Hub
Jean Widdowson
– Inter Care – Medical Aid to Africa
Rob Matthews
– Foxton Global Sourcing
Andy Bell
– Canard Design

3. -0
Ed Chester
Space IDEAS Hub

4. H0 • Rate of growth of the Universe
• Velocity of a galaxy 1 megaparsec away
• Measured in 2006 using NASA’s Chandra
X-ray telescope (77 kms-1/Mpc ±15%)
• Chandra optics partly developed at
Leicester using micro-channel plate
technology

5. • Part of our project name
• A central connection point
• Source of support

8. Helping business leverage our knowledge and expertise gained
from 50 years of successfully delivering technology into space.
Innovative: Solutions inspired by the challenges of
I working in space
Design: Developing concepts into realistic solutions,
D meeting demanding requirements
Engineering: Full project lifecycle delivery of
E mechanical, electrical, and software systems
Analysis: Expertise in advanced tools for
A mathematical modelling and simulation; state-of-
the-art test equipment to validate your product
Support: Funding advice, proposal writing, free
S consultancy, business events, networking, training …

9. Tackling Medical Waste-
Saving African Lives
How the SPACE IDEAS HUB is helping
us to confirm the quality of our medicines

10. WHAT IS THE CONNECTION?
EXOMARS ROVER DISPENSARY IN GHANA

11. What is Inter Care?
• Small, unique registered
charity. Based in
Leicestershire for nearly 40
years
• We collect patient-
returned medicines from
around the UK. These
valuable medicines would
otherwise be incinerated
• We recycle them and
supply 121 clinics in 6
African countries serving
around 9 million people.

12. Tackling Medical Waste
Collect from over 1,000 registered GP surgeries and others.
With help of> 50 volunteers, medicines screened to ensure:-
– Intact and good quality.
– At least 15 months from expiry.
– Suitable for purpose.
Medicines supplied are
– Free
– Go direct to clinics (visited every 3 years)
– Each centre receives 2 large consignments per
annum
– Recipient- led to avoid unsuitable donations

13. Why?
£800million
of NHS prescribed medicines
are destroyed per year.
Clinics in Africa cannot buy
medicines- yet they are
wasted in the UK!
WHO estimates up to 30% of
medicines available in poor
African countries are fake.

14. Helping the NHS &
Environment
• Saves the NHS the cost of waste collection and
disposal.
• Reduces environmental problems
• Preserves the embedded carbon content of the
medicines.
• Compliant with relevant Environment Agency and
Home Office regulations.
We have sent over £10m of recycled
medicines and medical supplies to Africa.
£774,535 in the last year!

15. QUALITY OF RECYCLED
DRUGS
• Studies in the USA suggest most drugs
retain their potency even after expiry date.
• 39 states have recycling schemes
• Recycling within the UK not allowed for
fear of misuse or fraud and concern about
quality after storage in patients’ homes.
• BUT Patients’own drugs allowed in
hospital and reuse of medicines
sanctioned in Swine Flu epidemic

16. Inter Care /Space Ideas
Hub.Aims of the collabrative
study
1.Determine if Raman spectroscopy can
verify the activity of patient returned
medicines with >15months shelf life.
2.Establish a technique for rapid screening
of large batches of tablets, possibly in
their original packs.

17. METHOD
• METFORMIN 500mgm tablets were
tested with a Raman 532nm portable
spectrophotometer to obtain spectra from
the sub-surface of TEST and CONTROL
batches
• The TEST batch- patient returns,expiry
date 08/2014.
• The CONTROL batch- recently bought
packs,expiry date 05/2016

18. Results and conclusions
• The Raman signatures of the test and
control batches were the same.
• The readings taken at different positions
on the surface of the same tablet were
identical.
• The results were reproducible and
detected no loss of the active ingredient
on storage. More work needed to link
Raman signatures with proven efficacy.

19. TM
RM Foxton Management Ltd
East Midlands, United Kingdom
Trading as Foxton Global Sourcing
www.foxtonglobalsourcing.co.uk

20. Leicester – Market Harborough
Harborough Innovation
Centre
Airfield Business park
Leicester Road
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
LE16 7QB

22. surveillance and evidence
gathering device
Advanced features include day and infra-red
detection and GPS video recording in High
Definition with position, time and date stamp
and path tracking function in conjunction with
Google Maps
• Military design specification
• Rugged construction
• Waterproof to 100m
• High reliability
Protect
Control
Manage
Prosecute
GCF-200F
supplied against UK Nato Stock Number: 5836-99-846-1118

23. Technology and Innovation
Working with RM Foxton Management Limited
space technologies are being
applied looking at innovative
ways to adapt solutions to FGS
Earth-bound Products from
Systems that have to operate in
the harsh conditions of space

24. Extension of
capability -
Technical Design
and Support to
include - Combat
experience!
Concept –
Prototype -
Production

25. Working with UKTI
• France
• Germany
• Poland
• China
• Thailand
• India

26. Working with UKTI DSO

27. New for 2013 Body Mounted
Camera / Com Unit
• 1080P HD Recording
• Records up to 60 FPS
• Wide Angle Lens
• GPS Locater
• Voice Recorder
• IR Night Vision
• Password Protect
• 12 Megapixel Camera
• Instant Playback
• Screen Capture
• 32 GB Memory
• 6 hour Battery Life
• Zoom on Playback
• Light Weight
156g

28. THANK YOU

29. Product design and engineering
consultants

30. What we do
• Prove principles
• Design and develop new products
• Improve efficiency of existing products
• Enhance product identity
• Minimise production costs
• Increase serviceability
• Minimise material costs
• Generate IP

31. How we do it
• Product feasibility studies
• Generate Product Concepts
• Develop chosen design ideas
• Produce prototypes
• Develop the detailed design for manufacturing
• Manufacture small volumes
• Provide support for the manufacturing process.

32. Types of projects
• Virtual Reality Headsets and Finger Trackers
• Carpet Cleaning System
• Boiler Condensate Guard
• Concrete reinforcement feasibility study
• Dispensing Systems
• Facial recognition Camera
• Fractured Neck of Femur Splint
• Patient Transfer System

37. Our problem
• Needed to take weight out of product
• Needed an objective viewpoint
• Needed to provide a compelling case for the project
to continue development
• Needed to bring experts together to determine the
best way forward

38. What we did
• Met with the Space ideas hub
• Asked them to propose ideas
• Gained agreement with the client
• Made arrangements for funding
• Arranged the meeting
• Held a collaborative meeting to expertly
assess the product

39. How the space ideas hub helped us
• Outcomes of the collaboration were positive.
• Provided objective view on the development of the
product.
• Generated testable ideas.
• Potentially generated over £70k for local businesses
and may potentially generate a further £125k.
• Hoping to provide a demonstrator for an exhibition
in March 2013.

40. www.canard-design.co.uk
Canard Design Ltd
@canard_design
0116 279 6532

41. www.spaceideashub.com
enquiries@spaceideashub.com
0116 229 7700
Follow us on @spaceideashub