Industrial Technology

Key players collaborate on virtual prototyping solution

National Instruments and SolidWorks are working together to develop integrated tools that make mechatronics-oriented design and seamless deployment to hardware easy

12th September 2009

CADCAM gets a TV channel

Delcam has launched its own online TV channel, Delcam TV. Customer testimonials are featured covering design, manufacturing and inspection across a range of industries, showing how users have revolutionised their businesses with Delcam's software.

12th September 2009

Everything but the enclosure

"Everything But the Enclosure" specialist EMKA have just issued its 2009 edition ECHO - the new products catalogue from this locks, hinges, handles and gasket company, which will be of interest to specialist panel builders and equipment packaging engineers everywhere.

12th September 2009

How do you select and specify cordsets for international markets?

If you want to export an electrical product abroad, what important aspects do you need to consider? Advice in the September 2009 issue of Industrial Technology comes from Interpower Components

12th September 2009

Material dogmatics versus functional requirements

Functionality without any compromise is key to developing systems and components for data or energy transmission. Only an unbiased analysis focusing on the individual application parameters can deliver convincing results, otherwise you run the risk of not only excluding solutions for an application, but also failing to meet customer requirements.

12th September 2009

Moving food from factory to table

The flakes in corn flakes, the toffee in chocolate bars and the oats in oatmeal all have one thing in common: they were probably flattened, rolled or otherwise processed by equipment from AT Ferrell.

8th September 2009

Schneider Electric helps customers make the most their energy

To meet with Government legislation and combat high fuel costs, energy efficiency is essential for any modern business, which is why Schneider Electric has published an Energy Efficiency Application Guide packed full of recommendations and easy steps to help end users make the most of their energy.

4th September 2009

NI TPC-2012 touch screen is aimed at LabVIEW users

National Instruments is introducing the NI TPC-2012, a new 12-inch touch panel computer that works with the National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module, giving control and design engineers another option for deploying the LabVIEW graphical development environment on Windows CE HMI devices for machine control, embedded control and distributed data acquisition systems.

31st August 2009

SoftMotion module creates motion control in LabVIEW

National Instruments is releasing the latest version of the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW, the software that empowers machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create customised motion controllers using software and deploy them for any NI hardware platform.

31st August 2009

NI launches higher-performance PXI embedded controllers

National Instruments is introducing a family of PXI, PXI Express and PXI real-time embedded controllers based on the 2.16GHz dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400. The NI PXI-8106 and NI PXIe-8106 controllers are claimed to deliver a performance improvement of more than 100 per cent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. With two cores - or computing engines - in one processor, the new PXI and PXI Express controllers can simultaneously execute two computing tasks.

31st August 2009