Industrial Technology

Extruded aluminium cases designed for keypad devices

The new TEKAL 3SP enclosures, from TEKO, have been designed for desktop and wall mounted keypad devices. Typical applications will include test and measurement equipment, communications, peripherals, security systems and medical and wellness technology.

16th November 2009

Condensation can now be easily removed

Enclosure specialist Schroff has launched a new dehumidifier system that is designed to remove moisture from the air within an enclosure, providing an inexpensive yet highly effective way to protect electronic and electrical components from condensation.

16th November 2009

Mixed signal oscilloscope tests embedded systems

The Yokogawa DLM6000 mixed-signal oscilloscope is the flagship product in a new family of high-performance digital oscilloscopes featuring bandwidths up to 1.5GHz, memory of 6.25M points per channel, an intuitive graphical user interface and a number of advanced analysis features.

16th November 2009

Vibration meter helps you protect industrial plant

The HS-620 vibration monitoring kit from Hansford Sensors contains a compact, portable digital vibration meter operating with a hand-held probe. It is designed for maintenance technicians to use to monitor vibration levels on important plant machinery, helping to find potential problems and so avoid future plant failure.

16th November 2009

Lightning strike simulation heralds simplified design

Tests verify accuracy of finite-element current flow simulation in complete aircraft structures including client-specific cabling.

16th November 2009

Swan sailing yachts selects Siemens PLM

Siemens PLM Software has announced that Oy Nautor Ab, builder of the world famous Swan sailing yachts, selected Teamcenter software as its corporate-wide PLM solution and will deploy 60 seats when fully implemented. In addition Nautor has selected Siemens PLM Software's NX software for yacht development. Siemens PLM Software will provide both software and services.

16th November 2009

Motorcycle manufacturer picks Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk has announced that Wild West Motor Company, a manufacturer of some of the most exotic high-performance motorcycles in the world, is replacing its existing CAD platform in favour of Autodesk Inventor software.

9th November 2009

Universal bus fibre optic cable allows tight bend radius without compromising attenuation characteristics

Energy and data supply expert igus has developed a new optical fibre cable, called Chainflex CFLG.2LB, which is suitable for all bus systems. This dual-core optical fibre bus cable is designed specifically for energy chain applications, where extremely small bending radii and high cycle life are expected without loss of data.

28th October 2009

Personal transport goes green

The world's lightest production electric two-wheeler produced by British company Karbon Kinetics (KKL) was developed partly using rapid injection moulding provided by Protomold, part of Proto Labs.

13th October 2009

Siemens delivers Parasolid V22

Siemens PLM Software has announced the availability of Parasolid Version 22.0 (V22) software - the latest release of its PLM 3D geometric modeling component software. Parasolid V22 delivers a wide variety of powerful modeling enhancements specifically designed to boost the productivity of application software developers working on some of the most advanced PLM end-user products on the market.

13th October 2009