Imperial College London's Department of Aeronautics is reporting a rapid response from Dynamotive and Control Techniques on an urgent upgrade for its 3ft x 3ft, 150 ft/sec wind tunnel.
Blowers
Italian electric arc furnace manufacturer MORE has revealed that part of the reason for its success, in terms of energy and steel quality improvements, has been its adoption of vortex flowmeters to...
Flow Measurement
Moisture and humidity instrumentation specialist Michell Instruments says its compressor plant supplier is keeping up well with the company's growing production demands.
Compressors
Observers of manufacturing can't have failed to notice that, since the 2008 crash, industry has been leaping up the agenda in government circles, as the urgency of its call to rebalance the economy...
Communication Systems
Spirax Sarco is helping young people to develop their business and entrepreneurial skills by lending support to the Gloucestershire Young Enterprise programme.
Apprenticeships
A process industries training rig built at Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA) and opened late last year is using Mitsubishi Electric PLCs, HMIs (human machine interfaces) and control...
Apprenticeships
IMHX (the International Materials Handling Exhibition, which runs from 19—22 March at the NEC) will be opened by Richard Noble OBE, the driving force behind the new land speed record attempt.
Apprenticeships
Critical reciprocating compressors have been added to the portfolio of plant equipment now protected by Emerson Process Management's Smart Machinery Health system.
Thermography (infrared cameras)
Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering (SFEL) is reporting success with a bespoke grid coupling, designed and manufactured for a very large water pump by Altra Industrial Couplings.
Couplings
The Petrobras Abreu e Lima refinery, in Ipojuca, Brazil – the first built with Brazilian technology throughout – will be turning up production, using WEG motors also manufactured in Brazil.
Electric Motors AC
Automation and robotics are not only critical to the UK government's aspiration to rebalance the economy in favour of manufacturing, but also to rebuilding the UK as a net high-tech exporting nation.
Continuing Professional Development
Measurement and automation engineering firm Endress+Hauser is celebrating 60 years of business today (1 February 2013).
Flow Measurement