Machine Building

Fast Turn quick-acting fastener selected for cooler cover

Unifast's Fast Turn quick-acting fastener has been chosen by award McConnel for an application on its Power Arm range of hedge and verge cutters.

5th December 2008

Robotic upgrade enables manufacturer to win new orders

Autosplice Brittanic used Aylesbury Automation to automate an existing assembly process using three Denso six-axis robots, resulting in improved quality and new orders.

5th December 2008

Atherm bellows compensate for temperature changes

Abssac has recently designed and manufactured a bespoke atherm temperature-sensitive bellows assembly for a customer in the defence industry.

29th November 2008

Nuclear submarines are huge, yet they are short on space

BAE Systems Submarine Solutions is using a Unison 20mm all-electric CNC tube bending machine at its Barrow-in-Furness shipyard, where the UK's Astute class nuclear-powered submarines are being built.

25th November 2008

Electric tube bender selected for submarine work

A state-of-the-art all-electric CNC tube bending machine from Unison is giving BAE Systems Submarine Solutions greater flexibility to fabricate the complex part shapes required while building the UK's Astute class nuclear-powered submarines.

25th November 2008

Automatic lubrication lowers production costs by 15%

Bielomatik's minimal quantity lubrication (MQL) systems are helping to cut production costs by up to 15 per cent at a company machining automation engine blocks.

16th November 2008

Aerial robot uses wireless link to transfer sensor data

Dr William Kaiser of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA and Dr Philip Rundel of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA explain how they have used National Instruments' LabVIEW graphical programming software and CompactRIO and Compact FieldPoint control hardware in an application that combines robotic control, remote configuration and wireless data transfer.

15th November 2008

CompactRIO moves wet concrete better than PLC and PID

Stijn Schacht of VAPO Hydraulics explains how a custom control algorithm was developed for use in National Instruments' CompactRIO hardware to control four hydraulic cylinders for moving unbalanced 20ton trays of fluid concrete.

15th November 2008