‘Cleaning Processes’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release SGS offers acoustic emission testing package from SGS SA - Industrial Services, which we summarised at the time by saying "SGS is offering an acoustic emission testing (AET) package, which allows users to locate structural defects and to monitor the material for discontinuities.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Liberty University wins simulation software grant from Simio: "Simio has awarded a USD300,000 (GBP180,000) simulation software grant to the School of Engineering and Computational Science at Liberty University in Virginia.".

In November 2009, we covered the news from Dassault Systemes - take a look at Dassault Systemes releases latest PLM 2.0 platform which says: "Dassault Systemes (DS) unveiled the latest release of its PLM 2.0 platform at its recent European Customer Forum.".

Take a look also at the news release from Endress+Hauser, Liquiphant accurately measures liquid levels, as well as Final chapter of lean manufacturing book released from Lattice Technology, and Hepcomotion rings produced in dedicated cell from Hepcomotion.

Latest stories...

Vistagy composite engineering for Bombardier (November 2009)

Vistagy has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace to provide the FiberSIM software suite as the standard composite engineering solution for all aircraft programmes at Bombardier.

Designing joints and structural adhesives (November 2009)

Sally Sinai, technical manager of ITW Plexus, considers the issues that should be considered before designing joints to be bonded together with structural adhesives.

TEC unveils rapid-prototype machines at ACTE (November 2009)

Technology Education Concepts (TEC) will be demonstrating a 3D printer and a tabletop prototyping factory at the 2009 Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Convention.

Eriez magnets/detectors installed in cement plant (November 2009)

Eriez Europe has launched Atex-rated Permanent Suspended Magnets and Metalarm Metal Detectors, suitable for operation in some explosion risk or hazardous environments.

Klingenburg uses Araldite products from Huntsman (November 2009)

Klingenburg, a privately owned company near Dusseldorf in Germany, has decided to take further advantage of Araldite products from Huntsman Advanced Materials.

Envirowise to hold product design seminar (November 2009)

Manufacturers and designers in the south west of the UK are being given the opportunity to attend a day of free advice on product design and efficient manufacturing hosted by Envirowise.

Huntsman expands Probimer 77 solder resist range (November 2009)

Probimer 77 White, the latest addition to the Probimer 77 solder resist range, has been introduced by Huntsman Advanced Materials.

CompAir unveils low-maintenance screw compressors (November 2009)

CompAir has launched a 7kW to 11kW range of oil-lubricated screw compressors designed to deliver high reliability with low service and installation costs.

Making sense of cleaning processes

Mike Martin looks at some of the drawbacks of conventional cleaning technologies and how these can be overcome using dry ice cleaning equipment.