Around the Industry

Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV has expanded use of Flomerics’ EFD.Pro from strictly research and development to everyday engineering design. EFD.Pro is the world’s leading Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire-embedded Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software tool and is used by design engineers interested in understanding flow and heat transfer in their products.

SyTech Inc. anounced that Canary Labs has selected XLReporter as the reporting component of the Trend Historian Reporter Suite, their latest software package.

Lake Constance is a famous holiday resort in Germany. It is located at the foot of the Alps and with a total area in excess of 536 km2 is the third largest lake in Europe.

MacDermid Autotype has launched a new premium litho printing plate, which can be imaged by standard laser printers or photocopiers without the need for heating, fusing or chemicals. Called OMEGA Ultra, the innovative anti-static polyester plate provides a low cost system for printers with computer systems to produce plates in-house for single or spot colour work.

Parker Hannifin is once again sponsoring Team ARAVI Racing in its specially modified Renault Premium race truck class. The team is using the latest generation of advanced fuel filters from Racor Filter Division Europe, helping it maximise its chances of success under demanding conditions.

Adept Scientific is pleased to announce an amendment to the agreement between eduserv Chest and Thomson Reuters with the addition of site-wide licences for EndNote Web available to Higher Education Sites, Further Education Sites, Research Councils and selected Associated Sites in the United Kingdom (UK).

Bunkspeed® announced today at the PTC/USER World Event 2008 that it has joined PTC’s Partner Advantage program at the Silver Tier. The company is demonstrating its easy-to-use photographic rendering products which now support native Pro/ENGINEER file import at the PTC/USER World Event.

The Chinese government’s Ministry of Railways has selected Wonderware software to manage the customer service system and monitor assets at its four major railway stations. The railway stations provide service between Beijing and Tianjin and will serve as the key transportation corridor for visitors attending the Olympic Games in August. This is the first high-speed railway established in China connecting these two major cities and is approximately 100 miles long.

Integrated Industrial Information, Inc. (I-Cubed) announced today the formation of its Rights Management Practice (RMP). Since 1984, I-Cubed has developed solutions that maximize the tremendous potential of engineering assets across the enterprise and is now extending EBI into digital rights management.

In view of the growing importance of “technical cleanliness” Arnold, working closely with the Fraunhofer Institute, has set up a cleanliness compliance procedure for fasteners – “Cleancon®”. What have always been rather general cleanliness requirements for components can now, for the first time, be precisely categorised. Arnold has set up its own test laboratory which develops and adapts test specifications to stipulate the degree of component cleanliness required in production and throughout the entire supply chain.