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EXCLUSIVE: Custom PLM system developed for custom cars
Having made an investment in Delmia as part of its DS-based PLM infrastructure, Bentley Motors is able to bring further advanced production technology into other parts of its business at low cost.
Exclusive article from Dassault Systemes
Low-cost IR camera fits in your pocket
Weighing less than 340g, the i5 IR camera has an 80 x 80 pixel IR resolution and thermal sensitivity of 60mK, which provides a clear infra-red image
Product/Service News from Flir Systems (15 May 2008)
Distribution deal covers nano-products
Alio Industries will be the sales distributor for Kohzu products in the Americas, while Kohzu will distribute Alio's nano-precision products and systems in Japan and other Asian markets.
Company news from Alio Industries (15 May 2008)
Emergency bearings for magnetic bearing systems
Nick Dowding explains why magnetic bearings are proving a popular alternative to traditional mechanical systems and the challenges in protecting those systems.
Background article from The Barden Corporation
Polyamide handles new fuels
BASF's Ultramid T KR 4355 G7 is a partially aromatic polyamide (PA 6/6T) that resists petrol, water and alcohols such as methanol and ethanol.
User application article from BASF (15 May 2008)
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From the Engineeringtalk Editorial Newsletter this week
Dave Wilson, Editor writes:
According to the Energy Saving Trust, if everyone in the UK topped up their loft insulation to 270mm, 380m pounds would be saved each year in annual fuel bills. So in the interest of putting some of those millions into my bank account, I called in the guys from the Big Loft Insulation Company to sort mine out.
Before they could come and do the work, the years of paraphernalia that had collected up there had to be brought down, sorted through and disposed of. And what a lot of it there was. Aside from the nineteen century novels, stereo amplifiers and the like, I also discovered an old magazine that I had worked on back in 1991. Now I wish I hadn't.
It's not that the article I had written for the June 1991 issue of Computer Design was all that badly executed. Just that the technology has moved on so quickly since then, that the story itself now reads more like a comedy than serious prose.
Imagine if you will, how excited I must have been at the time to describe the new Hewlett-Packard 700 series server with its blazingly fast 66MHz processor, enormous 64Mbytes of RAM and an incredible 840MByte hard drive! You get the picture.
If you've ever gone on holiday and come back from it questioning why you do the job that you do, you'll know how I felt. What, I asked myself, was actually the point of writing something so transient, something that was only of value for a year, if that?
I found some solace in the thought that there must be plenty of design engineers that feel the same way about what they have done for a living over the past twenty years too. In fact, given the pace of high technology over that period, I'd be surprised to find one that didn't!
So I called up my old school chum and practising design engineer John in Salisbury to see how he felt about the whole deal. Fortunately, he was some somewhat less deprecating about his efforts than I was about mine, which put some cheer back into this poor writer's angst-ridden soul.
John did admit that many of the high tech chips, systems and software that he'd worked on in the past might be considered rather pitiable when compared to those that are on the market today. But, all of them, he added, in some way acted as stepping stones to the future, and without them, today's surround sound world might not exist in its present fashion at all..
Comforted by that thought, I put that old issue of Computer Design back into the loft, where it's now snuggling safely between 270mm of insulation. Perhaps in another twenty years or so, I'll bring it down and look at it again - if I'm still around.
In the meantime, I plan to write something with a bit more longevity. There's always that novel I've been meaning to finish off about an English governess who teaches a lively French girl and then falls in love with her father. Who knows? It might even capture the public's imagination for over 100 years.
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