‘Project Engineer’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release WEG motors drive Brazilian theme-park attractions from WEG Electric Motors, which we summarised at the time by saying "WEG motors, inverters and soft starters are allowing the safe operation of equipment at the Beto Carrero World theme park, located in Santa Catarina, Brazil. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Emerson installs controls at Korean plants from Emerson Process Management: "Emerson Process Management has been selected by Korea Southern East Power Company (KOSEP) to install its Ovation expert control system at two power generation facilities in Korea. ".

In November 2009, we covered the news from Objet Geometries Europe - take a look at F1 car features parts produced using Objet printer which says: "The front and rear aerofoils and elements of the wheel mechanisms and axel supports in a winning Formula 1 (F1) car were produced using an Objet Alaris30 3D printer.".

Take a look also at the news release from SKF UK, SKF systems boost uptime of Isis neutron choppers, as well as University of Manchester buys 20 NI Elvis units from National Instruments, and Nexans to supply ice-resistant control system from Nexans.

Latest stories...

Diversified Plastics helps produce medical device (October 2009)

Diversified Plastics has been chosen by Coaxia to produce a polycarbonate miniature manifold, which is part of Coaxia's Neuroflo catheter.

ESI software supports PT-Grid project (October 2009)

ESI Group has announced its participation in the Plasma Technology (PT) Grid project, a three-year joint initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Delcam adds options for Powerinspect software (October 2009)

Delcam has added two new options for its Powerinspect inspection software.

Guide advises on mounting and dismounting bearings (October 2009)

Schaeffler UK has published a technical guide entitled 'Mounting and Dismounting of Rolling Bearings'.

Sturman converts engine to run on natural gas (October 2009)

Sturman Industries has begun an attempt to convert a diesel truck engine so it runs on natural gas, enabled by Sturman Digital Hydraulic air controls.

Parker increases integrity of A-Lok tube fittings (October 2009)

A Parker Hannifin production process based on stainless-steel extrusions is raising the quality and consistency of industry-standard compression tube fittings without increasing the costs.

Rotork provides valve actuators for Severn Trent (October 2009)

Rotork has supplied more than 250 Profibus network-enabled IQPro intelligent electric actuators for valve control throughout Severn Trent Water's Minworth sewage treatment works.

Diamond actuators suit aerospace applications (October 2009)

Noliac has announced that an actuator design has been developed for active rotor control through the use of trailing edge flaps.

Project engineering services contract awarded

Foster Wheeler Energy has been awarded a project engineering services contract by Jubail Chemical Industries Company for its epichlorohydrin and chlor-alkali project in Saudi Arabia.