Industrial Technology

It's full steam ahead with isolator switches

On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Keith Taylor-Nobbs, a team leader from Moeller Electric's factory in Worksop, noticed something familiar inside the cab of the LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) B1 steam locomotive. On closer inspection, he discovered two Moeller Electric T0 isolator switches on the fireman's side of cab.

15th July 2008

Cable protection on the world's highest railway

Flexicon has supplied 40km of flexible conduit to protect cabling on 361 high altitude carriages for the world's highest railway in Tibet. Rising to an altitude of 5000m above sea level, the conduit has to withstand temperatures down to -50degC and protect the cabling from snow, grit and dirt as well as ball lighting. The flexible conduit has a metal interior to provide strength and a plastic outer covering. It has an IP68 rating since it is often immersed in freezing water with the build up of snow.

15th July 2008

Wrightbus brings advanced vehicle to market with PTC

Wrightbus, the UK manufacturing division of Wright Group and one of Europe's leading providers of passenger transport solutions, has adopted Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM). Windchill, the PTC content and process management solution, has enabled Wrightbus to significantly improve its collaborative product development processes.

15th July 2008

Accelerating microwave design

Acceleware and Vector Fields have announced a partner-ship to accelerate microwave design by combining Vector Fields' Concerto automation software package with Acceleware's FDTD Accelerator solution.

15th July 2008

Enclosures

Spelsberg has released a new product catalogue crammed full of wiring products and accessories, including its huge range of GRP polycarbonate, polystyrene and aluminium enclosures.

12th June 2008

Autodesk Inventor accelerates Antarctic research

Autodesk Inventor is helping the British Antarctic Survey team get products that right first time and into the field faster. Andy Tait is a mechanical design engineer at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), within technical services in the Antarctic and Marine Engineering Group, and is something of a fan of Autodesk Inventor - a dynamic 3D package enabling highly accurate and easy-to-visualise digital prototyping. In fact, it was only thanks to Inventor that Tait's team managed to turn around a very last-minute project to design a probe-based ground radar system, to be mounted on the front of a snowcat. Its purpose is to look for cracks on the snow surface and prevent the snowcat from plunging into a crevice. "This was an important project, but it came to us very late in the day," Tait explains. "Yet we were able to get it right first time thanks to Inventor, and deliver the device with incredible speed."

12th June 2008

Improving vehicle design at Honda

Computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT for CATIA V5 was chosen by Honda R for fluid flow analysis and has contributed significantly to improving design process efficiency. Honda R is a research and development subsidiary of Honda, one of the world's leading automotive manufacturers.

12th June 2008

PTC announces CoCreate 2008

PTC has announced CoCreate 2008 - the latest release of its explicit CAD, PDM and collaboration software. CoCreate 2008 brings new time savings to companies challenged with shrinking design cycles and pressures to quickly create product designs in intensely competitive markets. These capabilities will help users explore more style options quickly and keep product designs aligned with manufacturing processes.

12th June 2008

Free simulation results viewer

Moldflow Communicator 2.0 is a free simulation results viewer that allows distributed product teams to visualise, quantify and compare Moldflow analysis results. New features allow the Communicator to be accessed by a wider audience and updates to the user interface and new operating system support should result in increasing its position as the leading plastics simulation results viewer.

12th June 2008

C# Synchronizer for Artisan Studio

Artisan Software Tools has launched the C# Synchronizer for Artisan Studio. It facilitates a 'best-of-breed' methodology for C# programmers by enabling software architecting to be undertaken in UML using Artisan Studio while allowing them retain the context of C#-aware features by implementing the coding detail using their preferred C# IDE or program editor.

12th June 2008