| Latest Weekly Features |
Energy efficient solution for Honeytop Speciality Foods
When Honeytop Speciality Foods, the leading supplier of naan and flatbreads, needed a new compressed air system installed at their factory, they turned to Airchannel because of their ability to design, supply and install energy efficient compressed air solutions. | |
| |
Linear rail for hostile environment
Engineering components that are resistant to the ingress of wood dust are crucial to the reliability of a new automated production line being built by project engineering company, 3think Limited. This Halifax based company has designed, manufactured and is currently installing a bespoke automated line at a large timber engineering company. This special purpose machine automatically produces frames for timber framed houses and these can be up to 6m long and 3m wide. The process requires up to 8 nails per second to be fired into the frame to achieve the necessary productivity. | |
| |
|
| |
Data tracking in the production of CIS modules
Würth Solar GmbH & Co. KG in Schwäbisch Hall (Germany) has been producing solar modules using CIS technology since October 2006. Manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCBs) on glass substrates is a difficult job. These CIS coating pioneers were world leaders in developing solar modules with dimensions of 1200 mm x 600 mm at their Marbach pilot installation back in 2000. Since the start of production in Germany, Würth Solar has collaborated with AIT Göhner GmbH, a Stuttgart-based integration partner of Cognex, to implement data tracking using In-Sight ID readers in order to boost productivity and optimise product quality. Current production yield is at 90 per cent and rising. | |
| |
| Editor's Comment |
| “Incestuous” engineering to blame for skills shortages |
| Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) President Ian Ling caused a stir during an address in London last week, by demanding greater support for engineers and criticising existing membership bodies for shying away from threats facing the industry. |
| The editor |
|
|
| |
