Around the Industry

WYKO, an ERIKS Company, has opened its first branch in Nigeria on the Ikeja Industrial Estate in Lagos. The branch’s official opening took place on 30th October and was attended by a number of key dignitaries including Engineer Olatunde Olokunola the Lagos State Government Representative, Richard Powell the British Deputy High Commissioner and Marjo Crompuoets the Deputy Head of Mission, Dutch High Commission.

Endevco Corporation has announced a relocation of its European logistics operation. The logistics operation has been migrated from the Endevco Vertriebs facility in Eckental, Germany, to a new physical distribution center at the Endevco/Vibro-Meter SA facility at Rte de Moncor 4, CH-1701 Fribourg, Switzerland. Existing contacts for customer support will remain unchanged.

igus® UK has launched the Y.E.S. (Young Engineers Support) Program, which offers free samples, product information and technical support to students and trainee engineers.

Expensive downtime caused by hydraulic hose failures at Caterpillar’s articulated truck manufacturing plant in Peterlee has been dramatically reduced by a straightforward and cost-effective solution implemented by WYKO, an ERIKS Company.

Joining Rencol Tolerance Rings for a year as part of its Work Placement Scheme are Bath University students Matthew Canning and Tanmay Dube. The students had to undergo an arduous selection procedure in order to win the place at Rencol and are the third year to take part in the recently expanded programme.

Rencol has appointed DAERYUK CORPORATION as its Korean agent. The appointment, which was made on July 1st supports the fact that tolerance rings are fast becoming an established technology in markets around the globe.

Bosch Rexroth Limited has announced its acquisition of Oil Control Limited in Coventry; a manufacturer and distributor of high quality hydraulic valves, power packs, pressure, flow and motion control valves, and electrical solenoid valves.

Engineering students from the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech have developed a bipedal humanoid robot using the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical system design platform. The Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence (DARwIn) was originally developed to study human locomotion for the research and development of prosthetic limbs. DARwIn achieves full range of motion and accurately imitates human movement so effectively that it was quickly modified to play soccer for entry into RoboCup, an international robotic soccer competition created to promote research in robotics, artificial intelligence and related fields. As a result, it has been accepted as the first-ever U.S. entry into RoboCup in the humanoid division.

Endevco Corporation has announced a strategic representation partnership with RepTech Northwest for sales and customer support in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

Active Sensing, Inc. (ASI) today released PDXpert® PLM 2008 Edition product lifecycle management software, which has been enhanced to further meet the unique requirements of growing companies.