Hitachi

  It has been announced that Hitachi Power Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi is adding new ‘Failure cause estimation’ and ‘Predictive services’ to its operated services using the original predictive diagnostics system.

  A new five-year maintenance contract has been signed by Sheffield based Street CraneXpress, to service and repair overhead cranes and handling equipment at Hitachi’s rail vehicle manufacturing facility near Darlington.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has signed a joint research agreement on new combustion / measurement technology for gas turbines with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). The two companies aim to develop new combustion technology that can use low calorific value fuel efficiently, in preparation for the introduction of low calorific value gases.

Hitachi High-Technologies has launched the SU8000 family of ultra high resolution field emission scanning electron microscopes for investigating the fine surface structure of materials in a wide range of nanotechnology fields.