‘Analytical Laboratory’
A Manufacturingtalk guide
Start with the news release
Servo presses cut downtime and waste at Millipore from
Schmidt Technology, which we summarised at the time by saying "A range of custom-built servo presses, designed and manufactured by Schmidt Technology, are helping Millipore cut downtime on its membrane filter cutting lines at its facility in Ireland. ".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release H and K uses Rofin lasers to weld magazines from
Rofin-Baasel UK: "Heckler and Koch is using two solid state lasers from Rofin to manufacture handguns and assault rifles.".
In June 2009, we covered the news from MacDermid
- take a look at MacDermid launches research-and-development centre
which says: "MacDermid has opened a global research-and-development centre in Birmingham, UK.".
Take a look also at the news release from Omega Engineering, Wireless transmitters launched by Omega,
as well as Tornos CNC automatic lathes program easily from Tornos Technologies,
and Amplifiers provide benefits of analogue display from Mahr Federal.
Latest stories...
IP strengthens its US manufacturing capabilities (June 2009)
Physik Instrumente (IP), a manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion control equipment, has announced that it is increasing its manufacturing capabilities in the US.
Hexagon announces metrology developments (June 2009)
Hexagon Metrology introduced many new products at this year's Control exhibition, which took place from 5-8 May in Stuttgart, Germany.
Spraytec can replace cascade-impaction techniques (June 2009)
Catalent Pharma has shown the Malvern Spraytec laser-diffraction based particle-size analyser is a useful alternative to cascade-impaction techniques for routine screening of nebuliser formulations.
PTC Pro/Engineer aids development of green buses (June 2009)
PTC has announced that Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) used PTC Pro/Engineer to design and research 50 electric-powered buses used for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Thermo Fisher releases spectral data software (June 2009)
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched Mass Frontier 6.0: a software package offering sophisticated features for the management, evaluation and interpretation of mass spectra.
Carousel flame-sterilises inoculation loops (June 2009)
WLD-Tec has introduced the AutoloopPro, a fully automatic carousel for flame-sterilising inoculation loops.
Thermo Fisher introduces solvent recycling system (May 2009)
Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific SRS Pro solvent recycling system, to re-use valuable solvent in the current global acetonitrile shortage.
Posic reveals incremental inductive encoder kit (May 2009)
Posic has introduced a compact incremental inductive encoder kit ID1101 for linear and rotary applications.
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