Electronic Specifier

  During the Paris Airshow, Bionic Production and Leistritz Turbinentechnik have signed a letter of intent for a strategic partnership. The goal of the partnership is to enable Leistritz to apply additive manufacturing, and to open up new business fields for both companies.

One of the most versatile industrial coatings that is available is Teflon, or polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Best known for its non-stick properties, Teflon offers an extremely low coefficient of friction, chemical inertness, and excellent dielectric stability. While almost everyone has heard of Teflon, due to ongoing advancements and more precise application techniques, the expanding range of potential uses for PTFE and other functional coatings can often be overlooked. 

Branded replacement parts manufacturers are increasingly ‘acting’ like OEMs in approach to quality control, utilisation of sophisticated measurement systems and adoption of lean manufacturing techniques to produce consistent, high-quality parts. Over the past few decades, the acceptance of replacement parts suppliers for engines used in the power generation market has evolved significantly. Today, the consistent quality, availability, coverage and warranty of products from branded aftermarket suppliers are increasingly rivaling those of their OEM counterparts.

The acceptance of replacement parts suppliers for engines used in the power generation market has evolved significantly over the past few decades. The consistent quality, availability, coverage and warranty of products from branded aftermarket suppliers now are increasingly rivaling those of their OEM counterparts.

The Stevie Awards, organiser of The International Business Awards, has announced that the final entry deadline for the 14th annual IBAs has been extended to Wednesday 12th July. Recognised as the world’s premier business awards programme, The IBAs attract nominations from organisations in more than 50 nations and territories each year, many of them for the Information Technology Awards.

Surveying and engineering company, 1st Horizon has just invested £500,000 in a new purpose-built headquarters in Yorkshire. The company, which specialises in 3D laser scanning of buildings and surveying for underground pipes and cables, has turned a former fizzy drinks factory into its new home.

Everything becomes obsolete in the end, due to the direct consequence of human progress. All ideas and products have a natural span, after which the irrepressible innovative instinct replaces it with something better. The challenges of obsolescence in manufacturing are immense, and taking a strategic approach to obsolescence management by forecasting and planning can make a significant difference to optimising product lifecycle.

Using a Skyfall solution to modernise its regional distribution centre in Jacksonville, Texas, US fashion retail chain Stage Stores has claimed the Skyyfall’s impressively high efficiency and reliability, with 12 sortation lines and over 5,000 transport pouches is the first system of its kind that Swiss company Ferag AG has supplied to North America.

Demonstrating its recognition in the market, GPS vehicle tracking provider RAM has become an associate member of the ECA (Electrical Contractors Association), the organisation that has helped set the standards of the electrical engineering and building services industry since 1901.  

Formerly a teenage mother with no qualifications, Jan Ward CBE is now Chair of Energy and Utility Skills Group and CEO of her own international engineering business, and has lent her inspirational voice to encourage females to consider roles that were once the preserve of males.

The digital age has changed every single industry – in terms of the nature of the work as well as the way we work - and engineering is no different. The most significant impact for this profession has actually been seen in the oil and gas industry.

  Global data centre provider and operator, Etix Everywhere, and Swedish agency ArcticSites had announced the start of the pre-ordering phase of a future, Tier III+ design colocation data centre, ‘Etix Jokkmokk #1,’ at hydro power hub Porjus in Jokkmokk, Sweden.

There are current changes taking place in the science and technology landscape that are like nothing we have ever seen before; or actually, that we have seen since the industrial revolution over 200 years ago. With International Women in Engineering Day taking place last week, Steven Gillard, Head of Government Affairs at Boeing UK & Ireland talks about the future of diversity in engineering.

To help highlight females in the engineering industry, SSE are using this year’s International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), and launching a new film which aims to bust some of the myths associated with women in engineering. Recorded over a number of weeks at its sites across the country, the film allows SSE’s female engineers to debunk some of the myths that exist about women in engineering and hopefully inspire the next generation of young girls to take up a career in STEM.

  Celebrating Women in Engineering Day today (23rd June) Shaun Simmons, Managing Director at Cordant Technical Recruitment, discusses how we can further close the gender gap in the engineering industry.

A two year framework contract has been awarded to Furgo, by Swissgrid to survey its electricity transmission assets. As Switzerland’s national grid company, Swissgrid owns and operates the entire 3,800km extra high-voltage grid with responsibility for its maintenance, renewal and expansion.

With the aim to boost productivity during the delivery of power projects across five continents, Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHIC) has selected Intergraph Smart Construction. DHIC was seeking a construction quantities management solution using 3D technology that would improve construction information management, specifically the millions of details and numerous complex variables it handles.

One of Korea’s foremost providers of engineering facilities, Hyundai Engineering, has selected Intergraph Smart Enterprise Portal to boost collaboration and communication between its designers. Smart Enterprise Portal is Hexagon PPM’s web-based mobile information hub that fully supports the entire facility life cycle process – engineering, procurement, construction and operations.

  It has been announced that the two companies EngineerSupply and Nedo Surveying are joining forces. After careful review, EngineerSupply decided that Nedo Surveying would make an excellent fit for their current supply chain.

ECIC, the specialist insurer for the contracting sector, recently carried out a survey of over 350 contractors, which underlined the immense pressure the sector is under to fill skills shortages and the increasing reliance on sub-contractors to fill the gap. However, industry initiatives to tackle the skills shortage and encourage young people to join the sector appear to be working, with almost a third of the contractors surveyed intending to take on more apprentices in the next year.