Costs of automating a machine that fills asthma inhaler cartridges have been slashed by cutting its aseptic diaphragm valve requirement from eight to just four.
Pneumatic Components/EquipmentEaton's Eatonite laser clad coating for piston rods is the first anti-corrosion technology to earn JIP certification, from test services firm DNV, for use on offshore platforms.
Protective Coatings
Today's generation of trains can travel further, faster and with much longer maintenance intervals, largely as a result of developments with ac traction motors.
Bearings
The power of today's smallest PLCs has been captured by a self-taught control engineer, using them to grow cell cultures in automated bioreactors.
PLCs
Thames Water says it has improved pumping efficiency and solved downtime problems at its Banbury sewage treatment works by installing a TR Muncher from NOV Mono.
Pumps
Stationery manufacturer Sinclairs says it has improved its site compressed air efficiency 25%.
Compressors
A precision globe valve and positioner combination is delivering excellent control on an engine test rig at BP Castrol's Technology Centre in Berkshire.
control valves
Severniy, which runs an integrated mining and smelting plant in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, producing pig iron, reports a 20% increase in throughput, as well as reduced costs and improved quality, since...
Communication Systems
Draw-wire displacement sensors are being used to test wind turbine blades at the Fraunhofer Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.
SensorsCartiere del Garda paper mill and Italy's Alto Garda Servizi utility have commissioned a combined heat and power plant that marks a high point in mutually beneficial collaboration.
Gas Turbines
All plants using steam on site could be making substantial savings on their gas bills, simply by changing their water treatment arrangements.
Water Treatment
Portable gas analysers have helped a municipal waste incineration plant to save £500,000 by preventing shutdown.
Gas Analyses