Parker Hannifin's membrane dryers are being used by Axis-Shield to ensure the integrity of the drying agent bags and cotton and cellulose pads supplied with its diagnostic test products.
14th November 2007
SKF has supplied roller screws for use in the thrust vector control system on the new Vega launcher that puts small satellites into orbit.
12th November 2007
Hydro Aluminium is using Contrinex stainless steel sensors to improve system reliability at its aluminium extrusion plant at Birtley, near Newcastle.
11th November 2007
Secomak has supplied three ready meal dryers to Premier Foods for integration in a packaging line.
10th November 2007
A CNC programmer has started a new business using a low-cost yet high-quality CNC machine to produce intricate architectural mouldings more economically than can be done by hand.
Westfield Sportscars is now using Autodesk Inventor design software in a bid to reduce the number of chassis prototypes it builds from ten to one or two, thereby cutting costs and reducing lead times.
A successful pilot scheme to ease traffic congestion has used field-hardened GarrettCom industrial Ethernet switches and S-Ring redundancy software.
9th November 2007
ATS (Automation Tooling Systems) has found that ordering custom-configured components from Misumi makes designing more efficient, which saves time and money, and enables design quality to be improved.
8th November 2007
Engineering students have used National Instruments' LabVIEW to develop a humanoid robot and then evolve it so that is it capable of playing soccer.
3rd November 2007
TFC has supplied a special 40mm stainless steel circlip to Ashdown Marine for retaining a prop-shaft seal on a round-the-world yacht.
