Features - July 08

Manufacturing Technology Intelligent machines
The Machining and Machinability Research group at AUT may have found a way to significantly improve Tool Wear Monitoring and Tool Breakage Detection by incorporating human phenomena into these systems.read article

Process Engineering Modular heat exchangers
The innovative Dimpleflo Modubloc Heat Exchanger is capable of processing products at volumes of 200 tonnes per hour, with up to 85 per cent solids and sustain operating pressures of up to 580 psi/400 read article

Corrosion Control & Industrial Coatings - Metallisation equipment protects ocean going trawlers Corrosion is a major problem for the shipbuilding and fishing industries. Metallisation knows how to protect this expensive equipment from the ravages of rust. read article

Welding Equipment & Consumables - Electronic presentation for resistance welding Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Limited (HFT) has released an electronic presentation about hand held electrode force gauges for use in the automotive industry. read article

Materials & Mechanical Handling -
Spiral conveyors: great space savers
Spirals are very attractive vertical conveying application with limited space and a need for high reliability. read article

Pumps & Valves - PumpSmart features sensorless flow measurement Smartflow is a proprietary sensorless flow measurement function which has the ability to calculate the flow of a centrifugal pump within ±5% of the pump rated flow without the need for any external instrumentation. read article

Fluid Power -Multi-barrel cylinder takes stress out of $250 million project  It looks like a menacing multi-barrel cannon of the type slung beneath fighter jets, but the purpose of this dark cylinder is constructive, not destructive. read article

News -Climate change tax: it is serious – and it is imminent  The era of climate change carbon dioxide offset credits and its associated bartering is hurtling toward the production-engineering sector, which lies flush in the full path of this astounding new and imminent taxation regime procedure.read article

News -Challenge issued to manufacturers   Use local Research, Development and Deployment (RD & D) services to crack the New Zealand manufacturing sector’s bad case of the “blues” – reflected in the latest BNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index(PMI). read article