Around the Industry

A 0% APR (Annual Percentage Rate) finance scheme is being launched by Atlas Copco Compressors UK to replace the recently withdrawn Carbon Trust loans scheme and to encourage investment in energy efficient compressed air technology. The scheme will be available on equipment ordered from 1st July 2011.

- Molex Incorporated is introducing its new SolarSpec™ smart Junction Box making it easy for manufacturers of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to provide their products with module-embedded safety and monitoring functions, as well as convenient, safe and dependable connection facilities.

Molex Incorporated has expanded its HSAutoLink™ Interconnect System with the introduction of HSAutoLink high-speed in-vehicle data bus assemblies that deliver robust connectivity to commercial automotive and other transportation sectors.

The business sector is increasingly under pressure from a diverse society to provide a seamless access to information and services. The past five years has witnessed incredible growth in the potential for technology to affect our daily lives. The continuing massive investment from the Telecom companies has resulted in the development of new technologies, bringing the potential for streamlining services to such a point that a great deal of business conducted with and by commerce and industry will require much less human intervention. Costs of self-service transactions are known to be a fraction of those for manual transactions and service availability for automated transactions can be twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

element14, a collaborative global electronics community from Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), is providing additional resources and guidance on its comprehensive legislation page to help manufacturers and design engineers to better understand the recent changes made in the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. An informative free RoHS eBook, which addresses the recent recast changes and live chat with global legislative expert Gary Nevison, are available to demystify and expedite compliance.

The company, which is a world leader in biotechnology, is creating a new polyclonal antibody production site.This is an innovative production facility: the process has been automated as far as possible, to reduce human error in the many stages of the process (separation, purification, filtration, ultrafiltration, haemadsorption etc.).This involves being able to interface with a battery of very mixed laboratory equipment, which was not initially designed to communicate with fieldbuses. Genzyme has used about thirty HMS Anybus Communicator gateways, to enable consistent SCADA management across all the devices in use. Benefits are as much in terms of quality as in production costs

German Google Lunar X PRIZE team uses Altium Designer for their electronics designs

Red Rooster has over twenty years experience in providing and maintaining high quality lifting, winching and load measuring equipment throughout the world.

Hi-line are pleased to announce the recent appointment of Nigel Winfield to the management team, reporting directly to company directors, Steven Smith and Michael Thurlow.

Orbitform Group today announced that it has received ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management certification for the design and manufacture of orbital forming, fastening, joining, conveyor systems, and assembly equipment.