Around the Industry

Rencol Tolerance Rings is pleased to announce the winners of its grand competition celebrating its Silver Jubilee. The three lucky people received the latest Apple™ iPod, pre-loaded with all the Number 1 singles from 1982, the year in which Rencol Tolerance Rings was established as an independent company.

PixeLINK has recently announced the addition of the Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interface to its line of CCD and CMOS industrial digital cameras. The increased bandwidth of GigE at 1000 Mbps will allow for large uncompressed images to be transferred in real time over standard Cat5E network cables up to 100 meters long.

At Kongsberg Automotive, Scorpion has been deployed to improve manufacturing efficiency by checking various processes during the building of car seats.

First Trace, Inc. announced today its acceptance to Bentley System’s Developer Network. First Trace has begun development on an innovative add-in to provide Microstation users with comprehensive engineering document and data management capabilities provided by First Trace’s Enterprise Document Management solution, powered by Kinnosa.

WYKO, an ERIKS Company has announced its acquisition of Forco Electrical Services Limited based in Exeter. The specialist industrial electric motor service and repair company will become part of the WEMS (WYKO Electrical Mechanical Services) division and will represent the company’s most southerly facility.

One year on from the £139 million acquisition of WYKO by ERIKS nv in November 2006, the ERIKS Group is celebrating its strengthened market position. The Group is now a clear market leader in the industrial engineering parts distribution sector in Central and Western Europe and with forecasted sales of €940 to €950 million and approaching 4500 staff, the Group now operates 214 service centres and 62 production and technical centres with a product range of over half a million items.

John Loonam has been appointed as Linear Product Specialist at Schaeffler (UK) Ltd, spearheading the company’s plans to increase its linear motion business in the UK and Ireland.

With help from the Learning & Skills Council, more than 20 manufacturing companies from the Plymouth area are now working closely together and in conjunction with local schools, colleges, universities and business support organisations, as part of a new initiative to improve local training provision in the area, while also improving the image of manufacturing to attract more youngsters into the profession.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that it has been selected by APP Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly known as Abraxis Pharmaceutical Products) for a three site multi-phase rollout of Thermo Scientific Darwin LIMS. Darwin, a purpose-built laboratory information management system (LIMS) for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC, will be deployed in all three of APP's manufacturing facilities located in New York, Illinois and Puerto Rico.

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) today announced that Ohio Nut & Bolt Company has adopted the CDS eCommerce module on top of the already deployed CDS CAD model download solution.