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Electro-mechanical Engineering

  • Precision Gear Specialist Also Cuts and Grinds for Other Gear Manufacturers

    01 Oct 2003

    Other gear manufacturers can now take advantage of the extended gear 'cutting and grinding only' service offered by Gibbs Gears Precision Engineers, Tring, Hertfordshire. 

  • Transformer Industry Could be More Efficient and Reduce Emissions

    01 Oct 2003

    Paul Dunford, from Winder Electrical the Leeds-based specialists in the design and production of power engineering equipment, argues that despite technological advances over the last 40 years, the drive for further efficiencies, has slowed down, and we are still tinkering around the edges of the problem of reduced emissions. 

  • New Thin Film Material Could Cut Use of Oils

    01 Oct 2003

    A highly durable and self-lubricating alloy of boron suboxide and yttrium (BOY) has been grown by a process called 'sputtering', in the thin film laboratory at Linkoping University, Sweden, by physicist Denis Music. 

  • Gearbox Service is at the Forefront of Technology

    01 Oct 2003

    Llewellins Gears, Bristol, a specialist designer and manufacturer of power transmission components and gearboxes, is currently designing a gearbox for a North Sea application that will go into production next month. Other recent work includes rebuilding gear units for submarines, replacement gearboxes for oil rigs, vintage cars, new drive systems for armaments, and parts for Airbus. 

  • Flexible Shaft Couplings Bored to Required Size

    01 Oct 2003

    Since switching to the Reliance Gear Co Ltd of Huddersfield, for its supply of flexible couplings nearly two years ago, British Encoder Products (BEP) have had no further returns or breakages of these components from encoder based applications. Reliance manufactures precision motion control components and electromechanical sub assemblies for the aerospace, medical, biotechnical, analytical, scientific instrument and defence industries. 

  • Range of Ex-Stock Bi-Metal Bushes Expands

    01 Oct 2003

    Responding to customer demand, Leeds Bronze Engineering recently extended its ex-stock range of standard sized Du & Dx type bi-metal bushes to include over 300 different sizes, both metric and imperial. 

  • Gear Company Diversifies into Quality Castings

    01 Oct 2003

    Mini Gears have won a contract from a new customer to supply 200,000 castings per annum for safety critical parts used by people working at heights such as on pylons, buildings and bridges. This project has enabled Mini Gears to open up a new area of business and provide its customers with quality parts with a significant cost saving. 

  • BMPTA Endorses TEAM Design Engineering Show

    01 Oct 2003

    Aware of its role as a lead organisation, and the need to uplift the image and importance of the industry The British Mechanical Power Transmission Association (BMPTA) has added its support to this year's Design Engineering Show (DES) being held on 11-13 November at Birmingham's NEC. 

  • Well Known Catalogue is Now Available on CD-Rom

    01 Oct 2003

    HPC Gears, manufacturer and stockist of gear transmission products, has made its comprehensive catalogue of over 60,000 standard stock items available in CD-Rom format. The new extended product range includes belt guides, tensioners and leaf chains. 

Industry News

  • Apprentices Achieve full IIE Membership

    01 Oct 2003

    This summer saw the graduation of students from the new three-year Modern Apprenticeship courses that are approved by the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE). Five of these graduates have received the best possible start to their engineering careers by becoming the first apprentices in Wales to achieve full membership of the IIE. 

  • European Manufacturing Action Plan Promised

    01 Oct 2003

    A real renaissance in European manufacturing was the focus of a briefing chaired by European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin this month. It also emphasised the crucial contribution of EU Research in support of the European manufacturing industry. 

  • Northern Europe's Largest Subcontractor's Fair Attracts British Exhibitors

    01 Oct 2003

    A major international trade fair exclusively for the subcontracting industry will takes place 11-14 November in Jonkoping, Sweden. 

  • Survey Shows That More Firms are Meeting Online

    01 Oct 2003

    BusinessEurope.com reports that a new survey by web services provider WebEx has uncovered a growing desire among companies for web-conferencing software, so that they can avoid costly face-to-face meetings. 

  • Innovative Companies Are Good at Creating a Culture of Change and Improvement

    01 Oct 2003

    The Government has recognised the need to promote investment in R&D within manufacturing through the creation of both R&D tax credits and tax relief. 

  • Basic Core Values and Performance Indicators Can Boost Industry Productivity

    01 Oct 2003

    Manufacturers are under constant pressure to shorten lead times and get new products to market more quickly while facing downward pressures on pricing. Andy Makeham, CEO of ERP software supplier K3 Business Technology, argues that by concentrating on the 'boring bits' of ERP, and getting the basics of planning and control right, firms can achieve their productivity potential. 

  • Local Authority Suppliers Need to Adopt E-business

    01 Oct 2003

    The Government has told Local Authorities that they must be 100% capable of trading electronically by 2005. This means that the 800,000 businesses that supply them must act now to become enabled to use e-procurement systems, or lose business to more flexible competitors. 

Medical Engineering

  • Medical Sector Advances Filter Down Supply Chain

    01 Oct 2003

    Concluding the GTMA Technology Day, held on 7th October, Roger Onions, GTMA President, discussed how advances in technology are opening up new opportunities for UK manufacturing, particularly in the field of nano-technology to create products for the medical sector. 

  • World Class Standards Serve Precise Needs

    01 Oct 2003

    Yorkshire based Claro Precision Engineering, produces implants in a range of metals and plastics, and precision tools for use in the operating theatre. It also produces assemblies for false limbs and external fixators - in fact all aspects of manufacture where complex, high precision components are required. 

  • Medical Pump Engineers Sees Significant Growth

    01 Oct 2003

    Since the launch last year of its worldwide-patented AIMS pump product, Portsmouth-based precision engineering firm Archfact Ltd has experienced significant growth in demand which has funded the purchase of new production machinery. Archfact offers a precision engineering service alongside its own product ranges that can be employed to adapt AIMS Pump variants or be employed for other projects. 

  • Capability Developed for Complex, Small Batches

    01 Oct 2003

    Medical and cryogenic subcontract machining accounts for 70% of Acrona Engineering's turnover, with nuclear and F1 motor sport companies also featuring prominently among its customers. 

  • Phenolic Material Solves Component Problem

    01 Oct 2003

    Devon based AAVF recently improved components used within the pneumatic units of Talley Medical's ranges of dynamic air cushions and mattresses for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis and prevention of pressure sores. 

Team Exhibition

  • Contract Manufacturing Show Helps Manufacturers Cut Through The Maze Of Services And Capacity

    01 Oct 2003

    Buyers of sub-contract services and capacity are promised a host of practical, money-saving options at this year's Contract Manufacturing show (11-13 November, NEC, Birmingham) where exhibitors will be addressing the needs of first, second and third tier suppliers as well as OEMs. The focus will be on sub-contract machining, assembly, plastics and rubber moulding, fabrication, surface and heat treatment, electro-mechanical engineering, toolmaking and casting, and more. 

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex