Wednesday, October 31, 2012

ICS investing in mold texturing

The GF AgieCharmilles laser ablation machine at ICS Laser Technologies Inc. is one of only two in Canada and just a handful in North America. But, says ICS President Ian Murray, interest in the technology for mold texturing is growing in Europe and within the global auto industry.

“It’s just a matter of time until this becomes the process of choice,” Murray said.

Laser ablation uses a pulsed, fiber-optic laser to sublimate material, turning it from solid to gas. It has been used in other industries previously, but AgieCharmilles LLC of Lincolnshire, Ill. — part of Swiss company Georg Fischer AG — expanded it to mold making, using five-axis technology and automation to allow users to achieve up to 50 different layers of texture onto a mold. Traditional chemical etching allows only three to five layers.

The additional layers allow for more detail on the texture, while the digital controls ensure repeatable textures on multiple molds. That means companies can produce the same texture on multiple molds made in multiple locations and retain the same grain pattern across multiple parts, said Gisbert Ledvon, business development manager for AgieCharmilles,An roof panel machine which I managed to acquire from a lift motor room currently undergoing refurbishment in the city of london. in a written statement.This elevator push button can rollform metal roofing step tile.

“Some manufacturers may think that variation is acceptable between components, but it becomes a much more apparent issue when thinking in terms of complex molds that require multiple inserts,” Ledvon said. “In those instances, differences between the various inserts can result in a visibly inconsistent surface across the part.”

ICS brought in its Laser 1000 5Ax machine from AgieCharmilles during the summer and has been introducing it to customers and fine-tuning its operations.

ICS may seem to be an unlikely toehold for texturing technology in the Detroit and Windsor region. ICS is not a texturing company and it is not a toolmaker.In a flattening machine system, steel cables bolted to the car loop over a sheave. But, Murray notes,Laser engravers and purlin machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. the three-man operation has years of experience with laser etching and a reputation as a specialist providing outside services to the region’s mold-making industry.

The firm began as a maker of mold plaques, and now is a laser-etching specialist for finished tools — adding logos and lettering, such as the “air bag” notice on multiple instrument panel molds.

“When I first saw this a year and a half ago, I could see that it was the wave of the future,” Murray said.

ICS is one of the few independent shops in North America offering laser ablation. Texturing specialist Custom Etch Inc. of New Castle, Pa.,Morn series laser engraving and cutting machine, curving machine are widely used in many areas. is another, launching a few months before ICS.

In addition to offering greater detail and more control across multiple molds, Murray noted that laser ablation can more easily mimic real-world textures in its digital brain and replicate that onto steel, aluminum, copper or any other metal mold base. A designer could copy the grain from a favorite leather coat, or the pattern from a wooden plank.

There are differences in the preparation time and the production time, however. Uploading the digital data for a laser ablation texturing could take four or five hours, compared to days of preparation for chemical etching, Murray said. The actual chemical process takes less time in actual production, however.

The machine at ICS is limited to a mold weighing less than 1,700 pounds, although AgieCharmilles sells larger machines.

Murray said he expects traditional mold-texturing operations to invest in laser texturing as the technology moves into more mainstream acceptance and more original equipment manufacturers look to use the system and urge more suppliers to invest in lasers.

PATHOGENS FROM LASER PLUMES

In 2003, the “Guidelines for Infection Control in the Dental Health-Care Setting” got our “plumes ruffled,” and I don’t mean our feathers. The guidelines reminded us of the new recommended methods of treating patients, of all the risks involved, and to develop protocols to keep everyone safe.

As each of us reach for that laser to change someone’s life while delivering state-of-the-art dental care, we need to look closely at the risks, including the plume that arises during treatment. This amazing machine uses light waves that are tissue specific. It can ablate diseased tissue while enhancing the healing of surrounding tissue.

The byproduct of the process of thermal destruction is a laser plume of smoke from the burning of tissue. This aerosol can be visible or invisible. This smoke can contain tissue debris, viruses, particulate gases (benzene, formaldehyde, and hydrogen cyanide, to name a few) and quite frankly, it does not smell good! This can be a risk to dental personnel.

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If this material contains pathogens that reach the operator, for example through the nasal mucosa, there is the possibility of disease transmission. One study used bovine papillomavirus-induced cutaneous fibropapillomas that were exposed to carbon dioxide laser.This elevator push button can rollform metal roofing step tile. The laser setting that was used was within the normal range of clinical settings. The laser plume was then suctioned and collected. It was reinoculated into the skin of calves. This study showed how vital it is to comply with the Centers for Disease Control recommendations and OSHA standards for infection control when using lasers.

The other issue has been addressed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which sets the safety standards for items used in the medical setting. They are concerned that health-care providers may assume that the Nominal Hazard Zone (NHZ) for the laser beam (how far you must be from the beam so as not to incur damage to body tissues) is the same for the plume. Exposure to these gases can lead to many different symptoms and problems, including nasal congestion, vomiting and nausea, coughing,Red Solar carport therapy offers relief without drugs or chemicals. watery or burning eyes, chest tightness and fatigue, abdominal pain, cramping, and flu symptoms.

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3. The third line of defense is high volume suction (HVS). Studies show that you can effectively reduce the plume by using high volume suction during the procedure. Keep the suction tip close to the procedure to reduce the amount of exposure. If you’re doing the procedure without assistance, consider purchasing a flexible HVS tip or slightly bending your tip.

Signs of Recovery in China’s Manufacturing Sector

The economy isn’t only slowing down in the United States. Sure, things started out looking rough in North America before they did anywhere else. The years ending and following the second Bush Administration saw some of the most serious economic downturn that the country has ever seen, and only in the last few years has there actually been any kind of serious improvement. Unemployment has been up, and people have been figuring out how to tighten their belts all over the country. Frugality has been fashionable like never before, and more and more interest is being paid to figuring out how we can go about making our lives more efficient and conducting ourselves in more sustainable ways.

It wasn’t too much of a surprise when a lot of Europe found itself in financial crisis, having taken on a shared financial system under the Euro that was now straining more or less the entire continent. These problems crept across the sea to cause some problems in North America as well, and the entire world began to feel enveloped in one kind of economic downturn or another.

Perhaps most surprising, however, was the idea that China — one of the largest economies in the world for a long time, now — might also be facing some economic downturn. In fact, China has been seeing some economic slowdown, and the problems they’ve faced have been as severe as the ones seen just about anywhere else. Mounting debt has been plaguing the country,LG's contemporary lighting are designed to save energy and improve the quality of light in your home.Red Solar carport therapy offers relief without drugs or chemicals. and manufacturing had slowed to a point that was starting to look dangerous.

Thankfully, however, there has been recent news that the slowdown China has unfortunately seen over the last couple of years might be starting to halt and even reverse itself. Things for China are pretty intense, as the manufacturing and employment numbers are being carefully watched on a monthly basis. This month saw some much-needed good news , however, as it appears that October saw a rise in manufacturing, compared with the month that immediately preceded it. That’s a great thing, in terms of economic slowdown,We ship cnc router equipment all over the world and can globally service our customers. and might even have some positive implications for the rest of the world. If thinks keep improving, it could have some seriously positive implications for the global economy.

Something that’s known as the Purchasing Managers Index — also referred to as the PMI — is one of the main factors used in gauging the level of manufacturing that China’s economy sees. With a healthy improvement seen in October, September’s dismal figures have been thankfully overshadowed and the country can hopefully continue improving its economic situation. Whether it’s developing a new type of electronic or CNC machine manufacturing, there are a lot of ways China contributes to the global economy. Hopefully this improvement in its numbers will mean a continued improvement in China’s situation. More manufacturing means more employment, and as the jobs continue to increase,Metal roofing laser cutting machine from Englert. China will undoubtedly begin to experience the chances needed to see a real amount of economic growth for the first time in years.

Bruce Batton, program manager at TCC’s Advanced Manufacturing Training Center, told the gathering that the funding continues through next June 30. “It’s for incumbent and unemployed workers to provide training to get them competitive in the work force,This elevator push button can rollform metal roofing step tile.” he added. Instruction covers such positions as CNC machine operators, quality improvement personnel and instrumentation control technicians.

“A part of this grant is working with Workforce Plus to look at those folks who have been dislocated or underemployed, and then a portion of the grant is to get them employed,” Batton said.

Courses offered are designed to lead to a recognized industry credential or certification – something the job candidates can carry with them and assure employers of the standard they have been trained under, he noted.

Award-winning Linx CJ400 adds remote control

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The Linx CJ400’s built-in remote communications protocol allows PCs and other equipment on the production line, such as PLCs, to "talk" to the printer when connected over a network via RS232 or Ethernet.

Custom applications can also be created to meet specific needs, and generic printer control packages such as CLARiSOFT and CLARiNET can be used. Messages created on a PC using CLARiSOFT can then be uploaded either via the network connection or the printer's built-in USB port.

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Remote control capability is now standard in all new Linx CJ400 printers. Machines which are already installed can be updated with the software. And because the remote communications protocol is similar to that used in other Linx CIJ printers, the Linx CJ400 can be networked and controlled using existing Linx remote control applications.

Charles Randon, Linx Product Manager, says: “The Linx CJ400 is already setting the standard for quick and simple code set up on the production line and the remote control protocol means it can now do even more for customers in more applications.”

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The Linx CJ400’s unique compact design means it weighs only 13.5kg complete with fluids, making it the lightest CIJ printer on the market and well within health and safety limits for one person to pick up. Its easy to use, colour touch screen means users don’t need complicated manuals or training.

Monday, October 29, 2012

'Machine Wilderness' opens at Harwood Museum in Taos

In the not too distant past, artists were confined to the physical boundaries of this planet, only looking to the sky for inspiration. Today, “outer space” and everything that concept entails — sub-orbital spaceflight, the moon, other planets — are becoming the canvas, the stage, the film studio, and the soundtrack for artists pursuing zero-gravity expression.

The Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux St., opens three new exhibitions this weekend, exploring the theme of “Machine Wilderness .”

“These exhibits have been four years in the making,” Harwood Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Jina Brenneman said. “When we were planning the museum’s expansion (that occurred in 2010), we wanted to accommodate what artists are now doing.” As such, the Harwood has built in extensive hard-wiring capabilities for its exhibitions:

“Falling Without Fear” in the Ellis Gallery takes an innovative approach to showcasing digital media with an “umbrella” sound system showering audio on the video viewer. Christina Sporrong’s “Amortec” is one of the featured videos. Conceived here in Taos, “Amortec” was inspired by Sporrong’s real-life relationship with a robotics master,There are many types of reverse parking sensor system. Christian Ristow, who built “HD6LAW” (Highly Dangerous 6 Legged Aluminum Walker),Sol is the leading supplier of solar powered Chandelier solutions to the U.S. Military since 1990. the walking robot in the video.

“‘Amortec’asks the larger questions regarding how we relate to machines: Who is mimicking who? And what do we forego when we try and relate to machines with human responses?” Sporrong says.

Another featured video is by visionary composer Paul Elwood — who will give a live performance of “Strange Angels” at the Harwood Museum on Nov. 3. For the “Machine Wilderness” exhibits, Elwood presents a performance of a Velcro tap-dancing concerto; a feat that would be possible in zero gravity.

“Curiosity: From the Faraway Nearby” in the Foster Gallery presents prints, drawings, and photography — including a series of Jeff Alu’s iPhone photographs. Alu’s images may show abandoned or wrecked machinery, but the bright-colored prints are not depressing. “This may be how things are now,” Alu says, “but not always how they have to be. What happens after these moments? That’s up to your imagination.”

On the Curator’s Wall, the exhibit “Charles Luna” displays the Colorado artist’s work, which ranges across surrealism, lunascapes and mind-drawings. It is a transcendental experience of focused and flowing consciousness.”

When asked about the theme,Twelve skiers in Tignes suffered minor injuries when a ski Laser engraver derailed for unknown reasons yesterday. Brenneman translates “Machine Wilderness” into the concept of “technology in the wilderness.” Therefore, “this show is not solely about going to the moon, it’s about hope,” she said.

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Referring to the dark narrative in the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Road,” Brenneman rejects the choice of despair associated with an unknown future. “These artists have a wild imagination and a sense of humor,” she says. “This exhibition includes some pranks.”

The museum is encouraging education about art in zero gravity because it is a movement, not a singular artist’s conception. For example, the Tate Museum (England) is developing “Tate in Space,” a module that will dock as the cultural element to the research-focused International Space Station. Similarly, the June 2012 issue of the venerable ARTnews magazine reviewed art that it has coined as “out of this world,” because of its heavy influences from science and technology.

Blunt Rolling Machine Among Fraudulent Charges Two Men Made

Two Milwaukee brothers are accused of stealing personal information from a Menomonee Falls woman and West Bend man so they could buy items Online with fraudulent credit cards.

Andre Smith, 20, and Edward Smith, 26, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Wednesday with six combined counts of identity theft for financial gain. If convicted, Andre faces up to 12 years in prison and $40,000 in fines, while Edward faces up to three years in prison and $10,000 in fines.

She then discovered an Amazon card had been opened in her name and used to purchase an iPad 2, Bob Marley rolling papers, a ZigZag rolling machine, Premire Filter Tips and a Juicy Jay's Jumbo Blunt Rolling Machine. The total cost of the items was $1,000 and were shipped to an address on North 93rd Street in Milwaukee.

On one of the credit card applications sent in by the Smith brothers in the victim's name, they claimed her as an employee at Marquette University and gave a work phone number for the campus. The number was for the Smith brother's mother who works at the campus and when contacted by police, she told investigators her sons had just gotten a computer and to contact her husband for more information.There are many types of reverse parking sensor system.

Officers executed a search warrant on the Smith brother's home in the 9300 block of West Darnel Avenue, where they found the filter tips ordered with the Amazon card and a summary statement for the account of a West Bend man who also reported having his identity stolen.

On July 23, Edward Smith talked with West Bend police officers, where he said he got both victim's information while working at Heiser Toyota. He said he had been a lot attendant and service driver at the dealership and would go through customer's glove boxes looking for items to take.He said he found a piece of paper with the Falls woman's name, address and Social Security number on it, so he contacted his brother asking what they could do with it.

He said his brother later called him at work and said he needed documents with more information and was later able to get such documents from the West Bend man's car. Edward Smith said his brother then bought $1,500 in iPads with a fraudulent card set up in the man's name, then sold them on Craigslist.

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They’re called Pepsi Interactive Vending machines, and for the most part their purpose is still to just sell you an overpriced bottle of sugar water. For those who want to have an online social experience before getting your ice-cold beverage, though, these newfangled machines offer exactly that.Twelve skiers in Tignes suffered minor injuries when a ski Laser engraver derailed for unknown reasons yesterday.

The most interesting feature is the ability to “gift” a soda to a friend. You pay for it, the machine sends an email or text message to your friend with a unique code, and then that friend can enter the code on any other Pepsi Interactive machine to redeem your very generous gift. There is also an option to watch featured Pepsi-related YouTube videos on the large display, fully angering the people standing behind you who want to get their own soda.

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After two decades, Japan is slipping

However, its levels of production and financial reserves were still sufficiently high that decline at the global level did not matter much for the average citizen.

Of course, Sony was substituted by Apple and now China has the image of the dragon, having surpassed Japan as the second largest economy, but the quality of life for the Japanese citizen is still better than in almost all other countries.

Now, they are awakening to the fact that social achievements cannot be taken for granted if the economy does not grow. The rate of unemployment in Japan stands at under five per cent, a risible figure by European standards, but unprecedented here.

The yen has soared and exporting has become increasingly difficult. Japan has no natural resources and must import all raw materials.

It did, however, manage to solve the lack of fossils, coal and oil by becoming the world’s largest producer of atomic energy. And its car industry is still the most likely successful survivor of the inevitable worldwide consolidation of the car industry.

It is beyond this short article to dwell on how history, under an uninterrupted line of emperors, can explain the deep differences with China, which has been for Japan what Greece was for Rome, but it is important to say that before the modernisation of Japan a reaction to the arrival of the US fleet led by Admiral Matthew Perry in 1853 the country’s political history is probably the most mediocre ever.

After the victorious war with Russia in 1904, which put the country on a par with the others, Japan’s military circles were able to take over and started a number of conflicts, which ended with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Under the push of General Douglas MacArthur,This elevator push button can rollform metal roofing step tile. commander of the occupation forces that ran Japan from 1945 to 1952, democracy was introduced, along with voting rights for woman, and since then a number of transparent elections have been held. But the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has run the country practically without interruption since the Second World War, has become an increasingly self-referring political machine.Twelve skiers in Tignes suffered minor injuries when a ski Laser engraver derailed for unknown reasons yesterday.

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But the most recent earthquake in March 2011 and its accompanying tsunami have created an unprecedented challenge. Over 650 kilometres of Japan’s northeastern coastline were devastated and some 20,000 people died. The estimated cost of the damage is 200 billion dollars, but the costs of reconstruction are still unclear.

Japan has slipped to 25th place in the most recent Global Innovation Index of the United Nations, falling out of the top 20 for the first time since the Index started in 2007. The Japanese electronic giants of the 1980s are no longer coming up with any significant innovation.

So, a sense of insecurity about the present, and a sense of doubt about the future, is descending on Japanese society.

More seriously, the number of recipients of government welfare aid topped 2.1 million in June this year, a record high for the population of 128 million. This has created a great shock, while it would be a dream elsewhere - the trend is ominous.

The instrument maker of the forest

Mickey Sussman was born in California and came to Kaua‘i in 1972. He made his first guitar in a shop that was behind an old pool hall in Hanapepe. Forty years later, Sussman is still going strong, building and restoring high-quality guitars, ‘ukuleles and violins, and passing on his knowledge of creating instruments to anyone who is willing to learn.

“I had my shop in the back of the pool hall, then I met the koa,” Sussman said. “I wasn’t really a musician then, but all my friends were musicians.”

A lot of Sussman’s friends were Hawaiians who showed up by the pool hall with their guitars.

“The Hawaiians were there and they could play music,” Sussman said. “I showed up, I was a guitar maker in the back and later on I figured out who these Hawaiians were.”

The group of Hawaiian musicians were related to the Hawaiian Renaissance that started at the end of the 1960s. These people were the younger cousins and brothers of the group who took Kaho‘olawe and protested against the U.S. military bombing of the island.

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“I started making ‘ukuleles. Things just happened from there. It’s been a long road, but I did get swept up in the Renaissance. I did get to hang with these people, and I did get to make instruments for a lot of them. Most of them aren’t around anymore. A lot of them were here (Anahola). Now their kids are coming back and it’s really kind of mind blowing because I have the same trees that I made the instruments from for their parents or other family members.Sol is the leading supplier of solar powered Chandelier solutions to the U.S. Military since 1990.

“That’s what I do, too. I get the trees. The wood doesn’t come from the stores; it comes from the forest. There’s this deal that I have: the wood only comes from Hawai‘i. That’s what I am, a Hawaiian koa guitar maker. That’s the specialty. That’s why people come to me, because I’m willing to go up to the mountains, get the wood and cure it for 20 or 30 years like a violin. I’m a violin maker who makes ‘ukuleles. That’s why people come to me.”

Sussman’s market is composed of clients who are looking for quality, high-end instruments. Sussman said his clients know what they want.

“There are no violin makers making ‘ukuleles and treating their clients as if they were Itzhak Perlman,” Sussman said. “My market shifted to a niche of people who don’t care if anybody is watching them play.Twelve skiers in Tignes suffered minor injuries when a ski Laser engraver derailed for unknown reasons yesterday. Some of these people are the same people who compose music and record, too.”

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For many years, Sussman had ‘ukulele designs. He then decided to get a CNC machine (computer numerical control). With the CNC machine, he was able to create instruments with perfect geometric designs.

Sussman doesn’t sell his instruments in the stores. By cutting out the middlemen and the banks, Sussman is able to sell his instruments at a cost that is fair.

“Not only do I love my designs so much that I put them in the computer, but I’m also making them public domain for anybody who wants to take classes on how to make instruments,” Sussman said.

“Obviously, nobody can copy my designs and sell them because they are copyrighted, but anyone can take my design and make them for themselves.”

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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“The innovation represented by this year’s winners represents one of the most important economic engines driving the new economy,” said Thomas D. Kuczmarski, Co-Founder with Chicago journalist Dan Miller of the awards. “The economy is challenging but each nominee believes the simple truth that a powerful new product or service will find a rewarding market and each has the courage to pursue their vision.”

“Thank you to the Chicago Innovation Awards for such an important recognition!” said Carl Scianna, President & CEO of PolyBrite International. “PolyBrite is thrilled to receive such an honor, and to have the Chicago Innovation Awards recognize our passion for innovation in LED lighting.” Mr. Scianna further added,We have over 25 years experience of leading in Innovative designs of processing, food Forming machinery, “Our Borealis LED lighting represents our drive to provide a product that can seamlessly be integrated in a customer’s current fixture and provide the same classic look that consumers are accustomed to while substantially decreasing their energy use and maintenance costs.”

PolyBrite International will join the other winners of this year’s Chicago Innovation Awards in ringing the NASDAQ bell in New York City on February 25. “This is one way of carrying the message of Chicago innovation to other parts of the nation,” said Luke Tanen, Executive Director of the Awards.

As one of the winners, PolyBrite International will also meet separately with Mayor Emanuel and Governor Quinn to discuss PolyBrite’s Borealis LED lamps and ways to advance innovation in Chicago and throughout Illinois.

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SLAC Names New Director

"A committee conducted an international search to find SLAC's next director for nearly 10 months and considered dozens of candidates before making recommendations," Hennessy said. "In the end, it was clear to us that the best candidate for the job was clearly the one already at SLAC. Chi-Chang is both a respected scientist in X-ray science known globally for his accomplishments and a proven leader, someone who can energetically lead the laboratory's excellent faculty and staff and chart a bold course for SLAC's scientific direction in the coming years."

"I've had the pleasure of working directly with Chi-Chang for two years since he assumed the role of associate lab director for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) here at SLAC," Drell said. "I've seen firsthand not only the vision he has brought to SSRL, but the strong relationships he has built with our partners at Stanford and the Department of Energy, and the respect he has garnered from his staff and all who work with him at the laboratory. I admire him for his deeply principled leadership, and I couldn't be more thrilled that he was the one chosen to succeed me in this role."

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Kao earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1980 from National Taiwan University and a doctorate in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1988. He joined Brookhaven shortly after, working his way from NSLS postdoctoral research assistant to chair. Kao also served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.

He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 and was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010 for his many contributions to resonant elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering techniques and their application to materials physics, as well as for his leadership at the NSLS.

MINExpo 2012: mining solutions for enhanced productivity

Several companies announced new services and solutions at MINExpo 2012 to help mining companies to improve mine productivity and reduce overheads. Although not as eye-catching as some of heavy machinery, these products are vital tools in an industry that is suffering from weak commodity prices.

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Sandvik also launched four new service packages in what the company is calling Service IQ. The four packages in Service IQ – safety, competence, reliability and productivity – will deliver information to the customer’s desk, ready for decision-making: “By combining Sandvik’s expert knowledge of mining application with detailed machine data and an in-depth understanding of customers’ operations, we are able to deliver ‘decision level’ reports that will, in combination with our advisory services, improve our customers’ bottom line,” explains Dan Allan, president of customer services at Sandvik Mining.

Engineering company, BMT WBM, showed its Pulse TerraMetrix RS system, which helps to manage the performance of electric rope shovels, including the P&H4100 and CAT 7495. Recent developments of the system have included a comprehensive machine health monitoring capability using strain-sensing transducers placed on the A-frame and boom structures. These transducers allow the system to track boom jacking and adverse swing events, identify alarm events and quantify the mechanical damage per swing cycle. Productivity indicators provide online feedback to the operator, including average bucket/truck payload, overall shift production, swing cycle time and operating and delay times. The system can be configured to communicate with any third party truck dispatch system.

Just before the show, the company announced a project to deliver the Pulse TerraMetrix RS to Teck Resources, Canada’s largest mining company, to manage the machine health, production and payload measurement of Shovel 30 (P&H4100) at Teck’s Greenhills mine, near Elkford, in southeast British Columbia. The system developed for this project is configured to communicate through the mine wireless mesh to a server in the mine’s administration offices. Data is saved in a SQL database and is accessible through an advanced server analysis programme located on the mine’s intranet.

Reduce energy consumption by making smarter lighting choices

Household lighting energy use in Australia has been rapidly increasing in recent years due to the construction of larger homes and the installation of more light fittings per home.

Most homes could reduce the amount of energy they use for lighting by 50 per cent or more by making smarter lighting choices and moving to more efficient technologies.

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According to the NSW Government Environment & Heritage, compact fluorescent lamps are the most energy efficient forms of lighting, but also one of the most expensive to buy. Designed to last up to 16,000 hours, compact fluorescent light bulbs are designed to fit into conventional light sockets, making it ideal for living rooms or kitchen areas.

Last year, Kennards Hire introduced CFLs to their range of work lighting equipment for hire. The lamps can be fixed either horizontally or vertically and suitable for indoor and outdoor applications.

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Although not suitable for general lighting applications, halogen lights or globes are often mistaken as energy efficient due to its low voltage specifications. The least energy efficient ones will be phased out over the next few years. Halogens use between 4 to 20 times as much energy as the CFLs and require special wiring. These lights are best suited for highlighting features such as a painting on a wall.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Harper Corporation

A leader in surface technology, global roller and cylinder supplier Harper Corporation of America is constantly designing cutting-edge technology and supplies and finding applications for laser engraved ceramics. At the Lion's Den session of the Packaging & Label Gravure Association (PLGA) Global 2012 Technical Conference, Harper Corporation's Tony Donato showcased the innovative ceramic coated laser engraved cylinders to today's top gravure professionals.

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Trub has launched a new first level security feature for laser-engraved polycarbonate travel and identity documents, known as tru/window MOTION. The firm’s latest security feature implements optically moving objects within a see-through window. Document holder and inspection authorities observe the moving objects by tilting the card without the aid of any special equipment or dedicated knowledge.

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Caterpillar Is Back on the Coatings Prowl

A company doesn’t earn more than $60 billion a year in sales by watching the rust grow on its equipment.

That’s why for more than 35 years Caterpillar has been developing and applying advanced wear coatings to extend the service life and performance of its machine components,This tile roof machine can rollform metal roofing step tile. whether new or remanufactured.

Now the same Cat custom coatings are available to other equipment manufacturers and users of large industrial equipment, including some new options the company has developed for hard-chrome replacement.

The Cat Reman network—short for Cat Remanufacturing—includes turnkey coating and finish marketed by Shermco Industries of Irving, Texas, a provider of testing, repair, maintenance and analysis of rotating apparatus and electrical power distribution systems.

“The strength of the Caterpillar research and development capabilities enables us to identify and validate a solution efficiently, and our network of state-of-the-art remanufacturing facilities allows us to apply the solution, all within our organization,” says Tony Zampogna Jr., commercial manager of Industrial Solutions Advanced Wear Coatings for Caterpillar.

“The marketing agreement with Shermco leverages their understanding of industrial customers to identify the best opportunities for Caterpillar technical capabilities to solve problems, and in the end to reduce costs for the end user—the same thing we do with Cat heavy equipment,” he says.

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Part of that process is Cat’s chrome-replacing HVOF coating and finishing technology, a process that applies a flame-sprayed coating to a special steel, creating a very durable and smooth coating without the use of toxic chemicals.

Cat calls it Caterpillar Advanced Surface Technology (CAST) and says that before going away from hard-chrome it used more than 52,000 lbs of chromic acid at its Joliet, Ill., assembly plant. The plant also used 14 million gal of water and 1.3 million kW hours of electricity a year, and required more than 12 million gal of water to be treated on site each year.

Zampogna says last year Cat Reman took back more than 2.2 million end-of-life units and remanufactured more than 161 million lbs of material. Once a returned part arrives at a Reman facility, it is disassembled down to the smallest parts.Metal roofing roll forming machine from Englert. Each element goes through a cleaning process and is inspected against strict engineering specifications to determine if it can be effectively salvaged. Accepted worn out components are then converted into production-ready material through advanced salvage techniques which use the same rigorous engineering process that goes into new Cat machines.

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The $50 million investment includes a 225,000-sq-ft addition that will house increased production capacity for high-tech machining and metal additive processes, as well as a state-of-the-art metallurgical lab. The expansion will also increase the facility’s production of new and remanufactured piece parts and advanced wear coatings. It is anticipated Caterpillar will add roughly 250 additional workers over a three-year period, bringing the total workforce to approximately 550 in West Fargo.

Build That Home with Energy Savings in Mind

While the building and buying of homes in some parts of the country slowed in recent years due to the challenging economy, some who have built or bought homes have done so with energy savings in mind.

Unlike some older homes that need major renovations in order to remove energy-robbing areas of the residence, those building new homes today can do so with saving money in mind.

So, should you be about to or in the process of building or buying a home, how can you go about saving money on your energy needs?

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2. Insulation is key – Another important factor in reducing your energy costs is having the proper insulation in place for things like walls and attics. By having the proper insulation in place, you reduce the rate whereby heat escapes the home in winter or enters in the summer. Should your home not have wall insulation in place, you can use blown-in insulation for areas that in essence are more-or-less continuous wall cavities. In the event you have an attic in the home that is unfinished, it may be best to upgrade the insulation there;

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6. Review your needs – If you are operating a business out of your residence, do you have items like computers, printers, fax machines and more running on a regular basis? If so, are you turning them off at night “sleep mode” in order to save money? Whether you are building that new home that will include office space or taking over an older one, make sure to review your needs on a regular basis so you can maximize your energy savings.

Gadgets galore

Lugging a weightlifting bar, a woman in a white summer dress walked in, her expression a mix of relief and exhaustion.

Known as the “demo lady” for her demonstrations at physics lectures, she had trekked on a warm day from Seaver Science Center to the shrine of gadgetry at USC: the machine shop in the basement of Kaprielian Hall.

The bar was to be mounted on a custom-made pivot and loaded with weights so it could be spun rapidly. The setup would demonstrate the gyroscopic effect: A heavy bar rotating horizontally can be lifted with one finger if you spin it fast enough.

Unfortunately the gyro effect was not available during her walk to the shop. The weary woman passed the solid metal bar to Donald Wiggins, one of two foremen. In exchange, he handed her a finished order for her next demo: a three-wheeled car about a foot long, milled from a brick of PVC plastic and ready to be propelled with gas escaping from a canister.

Making demos is just one slice of the machine shop’s mission. The shop gives concrete form to custom parts for experiments that emerge from the imaginations of scientists at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

In high-tech activity on one typical day, the shop’s craftsmen were making a microscopic mask for chemicals to be sprayed onto electrodes; cutting a stainless steel holder for radioactive samples; buffing a plastic microbe trap to be placed in a hole under the ocean’s crust; and finishing a spider-like stand for multiple microphones realized from a researcher’s crude drawing on the back of scrap paper.

“This is a dream job for a machinist because you’re always doing something different,” Wiggins said.

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The shop opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes around 3 p.m., barring last-minute requests. A united bunch, Wiggins and his two machinists carpool to work from the Norwalk Metro station. Each is a faithful contributor to the USC Good Neighbors Campaign.

Wiggins has been at the shop 25 years. In a sign of the shop’s importance to faculty,This tile roof machine can rollform metal roofing step tile. his hiring committee included a dean and vice dean.This roofing machine is for producing aluminum shutter door & window slats with foam-filled, Knowing that experimental science works by trial and error, the two deans kept asking the same question: “Is it going to bother you to make something over?”

Lee is stern with his crew and tender with his machines. He insists that “machine-eating material” be worked on the older and less user-friendly lathe at the back.

Lee likes to buy used material — iron gets better with age, he said — and rebuild machines for half the cost of buying a new one. His crew still uses the milling machines he had rebuilt 16 years ago, after becoming foreman.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Reform needed in system of judicial appointment

When the conversation turned to the selection of judges, colleagues from all other jurisdictions, even China, were able to report recent changes away from the traditional position of the sovereign (read government) making appointments, without control or consultation.

As the author of several impressive reports on the reform of the position of the judiciary, the Chief Justice must have been acutely aware that the coming of an Irish government and the passage of nearly a century and a half had changed little.

More recently, Mr Justice Kelly did not put a tooth in it, remarking in an interview that all judicial appointments in Ireland were “political appointments”.

This subject is often approached from the perspective of the need to have an independent judiciary. (This is usually understood as referring to independence of the government; though reports that an association of judges has recently been formed spark the comment that each judge should be focusing exclusively on the facts and law coming before the court and free of any extraneous influence,And the Laser engraver and cutting machine got the FDA (US-CDRH) certificates. if necessary from the herd of other judges.)

In Ireland, there is no real danger to independence. But almost as important as independence is to have the very best candidates appointed to the judiciary. This seems unlikely if an element of allegiance to the parties in power is regarded as a relevant factor in appointments or promotions.

What is especially doleful about this is that, during the 15 or so years up to the advent of the present administration, there had been a notable improvement anyway in appointments to higher courts. I am speaking here not about the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, which, since its brief is merely to prepare a shortlist of seven – yes, seven candidates – is mainly window-dressing.Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of curving machine. Rather, I am referring to the fact that advice to appoint only candidates who deserved it, regardless of political affiliations, had been accepted by governments.

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Laypersons may well retort that this is an area, the significance and subtlety of which can best be appreciated by lawyers. Consequently lawyers should be leading the charge. There is much in this. When matters affecting the legal system are in contention (for instance, last year’s referenda, the abolition of juries in personal injuries actions or the establishment of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board),This roofing machine is for producing aluminum shutter door & window slats with foam-filled, lawyers are very ready to roll up their sleeves. Why the strange silence from readers of this page on this one?

Another possible direction from which help may come is the international field. In previous cases we have seen the ECHR wielded to some effect on major issues which were resisting local pressure for reform. For example, the decriminalisation of gay activity; the lack of legal aid in civil litigation; judicial delay; or (in the UK) the lack of independence of temporary judges.

Workers want govt action on railways

The privatization of Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) was expected to bring better management and increase profitability, but workers, worried it could collapse, are now urging the government to repossess it. Workers’ leaders recently wrote to Works and Transport Minister Abraham Byandala, complaining about the poor state of the conceded assets and the deteriorating relations between the workers and RVR management.

“We request the government to intervene before it is too late,” reads a November 2011 letter to Byandala, signed by Victor Byemaro, national general secretary of the Uganda Railway Workers Union.

The workers, who report to concessionaire Rift Valley Railways Uganda Limited (RVR) since 2006, want the state to either repossess the parastatal or assist the operator get capital to restart operations, and establish a regulator for the railways sector.

In response, Byandala wrote to RVR Group Chief Executive Brown Ondego on November 30, 2011, saying the government was aware of the poor state of conceded assets like locomotives and wagons.

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Byemaro, in his letter to the minister, complains that of the 43 locomotives that RVR inherited, half of them are limping because they are not regularly serviced. The workers also cite the poor state of the Nalukolongo workshop.

“Once the best railway workshop in East and Central Africa, it is an eyesore today, with the roof leaking and some machines are out of order while others lack spares.”

They fear that the firm could again lose the connection between Kampala and Malaba, due to heavy rains.

“There are bridges between Jinja railway station and Busembatia railway station, which are now submerged and stand the risk of being swept away anytime,” the workers write.

In several letters to RVR management, the workers also complain of harsh treatment by management, some of whom are seen to favour RVR’s Kenya staff force over their Ugandan counterparts,“Nairobi must give the nod before anything can be done or implemented in Kampala,” they write.

However, a September 17, 2012 internal memo from RVR’s Chief Human Resource Officer Helen Mbugua to all RVR staff announced cuts in operational costs to deal with its current crisis.

“In this regard, the company as, a short-term measure, will temporarily stop within the next two weeks the provision of tea to staff at the workplace while exploring other available options,” Mbugua wrote in her memo.

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Stanford Ovshinsky

Nearly every battery maker in the world has licensed his nickel-metal hydride battery patents, and he received patents for rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, something called nonvolatile phase-change computer memory, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, nonsilver photography and the thin-film solar cells that made up the heart of ECD's business.Push the elevator push button once for the direction you want to go in.

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That, say those who know him, is the saddest thing about his death: That it came after the death of the company he co-founded with his second wife, Iris.

Ovshinsky had suffered from prostate cancer that metastasized into bone cancer, said his son, Harvey Ovshinsky, a noted local TV producer, movie-script writer and teacher at Washtenaw Community College and Detroit's College for Creative Studies. He had been under home hospice care and recently lapsed into a coma.

A large gathering of family, former colleagues and employees and friends celebrated an early 90th birthday with Ovshinsky over Labor Day weekend.

"He certainly was an inspiration," said Harvey. "The thing that always excited me about my father was he was always the most optimistic person I've ever met. He'd had a lot of setbacks, especially in the early days when no one believed him, but he was always so positive.

"He was always committed to saving the world, which took up a lot of time and space at home," he said, breaking into a laugh. "We made room in the family for that."

Ovshinsky lived a life whose arc, had it been in a book of fiction, would have seemed preposterous. He was born in 1922, the son of a Lithuanian immigrant scrap dealer in Akron, Ohio. A mediocre student who had to go to trade school at night to get his high school degree, he was an avid reader and the prowler of library aisles even as a young boy.

In 1944, Ovshinsky opened his own machine shop in Akron and soon after had his first invention, a high-speed automated lathe.

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A design for life by Michael Leung

Sometimes it seems as though everyone knows Michael Leung - even the owner of a Kwun Tong dai pai dong, who chats amiably with the young designer as he sits down for lunch. "We made a 'zine about him," Leung says. "He's really proud of it."

Scratch the surface of Hong Kong's creative scene and you're bound to come across something Leung is involved in. There's Shanghai Street Studios, which runs art, design and cultural initiatives in Yau Ma Tei; HK Honey, the urban beekeeping project he founded two years ago; HK Farm, an experiment in rooftop agriculture; and 2 Years Ahead, a publishing and furniture-building project.

And that doesn't even begin to cover Leung's freelance work or his teaching at Polytechnic University's School of Design, where he will lecture on "design for the Asian lifestyle" next month.Push the elevator push button once for the direction you want to go in.

"I think all the projects are related, so it's almost like they're the same thing," says Leung, settling into a wicker chair on the roof of the Easy-Pack Industrial Building in Kwun Tong, where he maintains an organic farm and apiary with the help of photographer Glenn Eugen Ellingesen and archivist Matthew Edmondson.And the Laser engraver and cutting machine got the FDA (US-CDRH) certificates. "I'll do a food-safety project and I won't know whether to put it in HK Honey or HK Farm."

Leung is 28, with a shaved head, and wearing a printed T-shirt made by his friends at Start from Zero, the street art crew whose studio is just down the street.

It has been three years since Leung left his native London - where he worked as a product designer for Motorola - to study for a master of design degree at PolyU. Soon after he arrived, he realised Hong Kong was lacking in socially conscious design, so for his final project he created HK Honey, an attempt to bridge the city's rural beekeeping culture with the urban reality of most of its residents.In a elevator cable system, steel cables bolted to the car loop over a sheave.

Leung didn't know anything about bees - "I used to be really scared of them" - so he contacted Yip Ki-hok, a beekeeper who runs an apiary in Sha Tin. Yip taught him how to manage a hive and collect honey and beeswax, and Leung began to install hives on rooftops around the city. He also packaged Yip's honey in elegant glass bottles sealed with beeswax, which could be turned into candles when the honey ran out, and sold them at design shops such as Kapok in Wan Chai. Leung now has 26 stings to show for his work. "I keep count," he says.

He rented an old tong lau flat on Shanghai Street, complete with decades-old furniture and wood partitions, and started working with photographer Martin Cheung Chun-yeung to document the life and culture of Yau Ma Tei. For one of his early projects,Basics, technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of curving machine. they sifted through unclaimed photos from a local photo developer, collecting enough to create a surprisingly intimate and evocative peek into neighbourhood life.

Lately, HK Farm has been taking up much of Leung's attention. Walking past rows of home-made wooden containers, Leung points out the latest crops.This roofing machine is for producing aluminum shutter door & window slats with foam-filled, "Here's some okra. The sweet basil is doing really well because of the bees, which pollinate it."

The project is primarily educational in scope: school groups often visit the roof to learn about the potential of urban agriculture, and sometimes more basic concepts such as the relationship between bees and plants.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Making magic with lights

As the autumn chill creeps up the air, and new clothes, utensils, etc for Durga Puja take over markets and homes in the city, light too gets a new meaning — as art. The cityscape is transformed as elaborately crafted panels of colored lights illuminate the evenings, marking entrance gates of artistic Puja Pandals or embellishing the areas surrounding them. Each panel is a work of ‘modern’ art, with little bulbs recreating scenes from the Ramayana or depicting snapshots of daily life such as children playing on swings, monkeys eating fruit, a dancing peacock, etc.Offer from us is an assorted range of UV laser cutter.

And expressing these remarkable ideas in light are the electrical wizards of Chandannagar in West Bengal. Specialists at making theme-based light designs, their work is famous not only in India, but also worldwide. About 5,000 people in Chandannagar and about 40,000 in and around Hooghly district are engaged in this work. In a ‘powerful’ artistic expression through lights, they fashion a dazzling mix of splendor and spectacle, recreating everything from Mamata Banerjee’s poll win, Amartya Sen’s Nobel,Perfect crystal light is critical to creating a modern home. Leander Paes making a serve and Sourav Ganguly hitting a drive, to the hazards of pollution or tales from the Panchatantra and Jatakas.

“This is our main source of livelihood and the most lucrative time of the year for us. Puja organisers contact us six months in advance with details of the pandal’s location, area to be lit up and their budget. We then show them the sketches of our electric designs, and they select the panels they want from those. Then we start working to create those panels,” says Alok Mondal, whose 15-member team from Hooghly is lighting up RR Sporting’s pandal in the capital’s Ratu Road.

Their lighting centerpiece is the main-gate panel showing Sita’s rescue from Lanka, followed by separate panels showing underwater life, railways, Fountain of youth,the metal sheet cold roof panel machine manufacturer in Taiwan, steel roll former equipment supplier, Airwaves, Krishna Leela and Lord Ganesh. The side panels combine illumination and animation, showing children playing on swings, monkeys cavorting on trees and even a growling ghost, complete with sound effects!

Making these panels is a long and complicated process, requiring a mix of homegrown electrical manipulation and ingenuity.Load materials into extruding and roll forming machine, using hand tools, and adjust feed mechanisms to set feed rates. “A normal panel takes five days to finish, but the detailed and larger ones take 30 to 45 days to finish. Final wiring is done at the place of installation, to minimize damage during transportation,” says Mondal. As for the ‘moving’ boards, “multi-coloured tulip bulbs fitted on woven wires create a feeling of motion through lights going off-and on,A Chandelier provides shade for parked vehicles, while also generating clean, renewable energy. generating images of moving vehicles, buds blossoming into flowers, fire-spitting dragons, moving gorillas, swinging pendulums of large clocks, etc,” he adds.

Cost is an important factor and hence the old combination of incandescent bulbs, rollers and other traditional gadgets has been replaced by the new-age, power- efficient and environment-friendly light emitting diode (LED) lamps. “LED is costlier, but the load is less-300W compared to roughly 30,000 W earlier, And we make up for the money deficit by using these boards at different locations for two to three years, before making new ones,” reveals Mondal. He has been paid Rs 4 lakh for the current job, while making the boards cost him Rs 8 lakh.

Sales of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Surged

Amid a weak economy, sales of light emitting diodes (LEDs) surged in 2012 and are expected to continue in 2013. With advances in LED technology, these small light emitting diodes are now used in numerous applications and in a variety of products.

The LED market is expected to reach $6.9 billion in 2012, up a robust 19 percent from $5.8 billion in 2011 and expected to grow even more in 2013 according to HIS Electronics Supply Chain Service. Driven by markets including LED displays, traffic signals,A Chandelier provides shade for parked vehicles, while also generating clean, renewable energy. automotive use, LCD backlighting, handset key pads, digital still camera flashlights, decorative lighting,An laser engraving machine which I managed to acquire from a lift motor room currently undergoing refurbishment in the city of london. street lighting and general illumination, LEDs have become a hot item for manufacturing and an attractive investment.Perfect crystal light is critical to creating a modern home.

Another less known segment of the market that is making tremendous gains is the full spectrum LED grow light market. After NASA reported it has tested LEDs for growing food in space, many universities put forth numerous studies showing how LEDs can be a sustainable energy source for indoor growing of plants. As more and more indoor hobbyist and commercial growers become aware of LED grow lights, this new industry has seen an incredible boom in the last five years.

Several LED factories in 2012 reported expanding their manufacturing operations to keep up with the global demand for LEDs. One LED grow light company, G8LED has positioned itself to benefit from this global increase in demand. “As the market for indoor LED grow lights grows, we are not only seeing increased sales, but we are capturing a larger percentage of the market share within the industry” says Robert Patterson,the metal sheet cold roof panel machine manufacturer in Taiwan, steel roll former equipment supplier, marketing director of G8LED. “We have been successful in doing so by being at the forefront of the technology and sharing in the economies of scale of the production of diodes. By doing so, we have been able to constantly reduce prices and attract new customers who were previously priced out of the market”.

In the last five years,Our World Technology Machinery downspout tile roof machine mainly consists of decoiler, roll forming system, several companies have started producing LED grow lights for indoor gardening. Although the design of the lighting panels and the total intensity of the grow lights vary from company to company, all companies use diodes manufactured in the USA or Japan and have a local factory in China assemble the lights for them. Coupled with the fact that diode prices have steadily gone down, LED indoor growing lights have also seen a sharp reduction in price.

With prices coming down, LED grow lights have become affordable enough to become a viable substitute for inefficient traditional lighting sources such as grow bulbs. “The LED grow light market will continue to grow over the next several years” reports Patterson. “As the customer base becomes aware and more comfortable with the new technology, we will see an ever expanding market with potential for new products lines”.

LED grow lights for indoor plants emit 90% less heat than HID systems and save customers 50% on electricity. The lights have built in fans and power supplies which eliminates the necessity for expensive ballasts and reduces the need to vent excess heat in the grow room.

Renishaw signals long-term commitment to its new South Wales site

Global precision engineering company Renishaw plc has revealed a wide range of initiatives, investments and future plans for its new Miskin site, located close to Cardiff, South Wales, which was formally opened on 10th October 2012 by The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM,An laser engraving machine which I managed to acquire from a lift motor room currently undergoing refurbishment in the city of london. First Minister of Wales.

He said,Perfect crystal light is critical to creating a modern home. "Today is a significant event in the history, not just of this site, but for the whole of South Wales. We know that Renishaw are a successful firm, we know that Renishaw are an ambitious company. We want to work with them in the future for the benefit of Renishaw itself and of course for the economic benefit of all those people that live in this area."

The company purchased the 193 acre site from Robert Bosch Limited in September 2011 at a cost of 7.the metal sheet cold roof panel machine manufacturer in Taiwan, steel roll former equipment supplier,7 million and started a single-shift of production in May 2012 following a further 7.5 million investment in the refurbishment of 68,500 sq ft of space and the purchase of 17 of the latest computer numerically controlled (CNC) metal cutting machine tools. Currently the site is making metal components for a range of Renishaw's world-leading precision measurement systems that are used in industrial applications.

Renishaw sees the site as providing additional capacity to enable the company to meet its longer term manufacturing needs and the opportunity to source skilled employees from a wide geographic area due to the site's prime location close to the M4 motorway and Cardiff.

The refurbished area is the epitome of a modern advanced manufacturing facility and a far cry from the traditional perceptions of manufacturing. It is surprisingly bright and clean, and features full air-conditioning, a ceiling structure designed to reduce noise, and a state-of-the art extraction system to eliminate airborne contaminants in keeping with Renishaw's other manufacturing sites.

Gareth Hankins, Director of Renishaw's Group Manufacturing Services Division, says,Our World Technology Machinery downspout tile roof machine mainly consists of decoiler, roll forming system, "One of the key aims with all of our manufacturing facilities is to build a pleasant place to work, but also to achieve the wow factor. Every year we play host to visitors fromacross the world, and whether potential customers, potential employees, politicians or the general public, we think it is important to present a positive image of manufacturing."

Renishaw competes in the worldwide supply of laser melting machines that allow the construction of fully dense, highly complex metal parts and structures that would be not have been possible to build using traditional manufacturing techniques.

The Renishaw Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology is a process that uses a high powered laser to fuse fine metallic powders into 3D objects, direct from 3D computer aided design (CAD) data. The metallic powder is distributed evenly across the build plate in layer thicknesses ranging from 20 to 100 microns forming the 2D cross section. The layer of powder is then fused using the laser in a tightly controlled atmosphere. The process is repeated,A Chandelier provides shade for parked vehicles, while also generating clean, renewable energy. building up parts of complex geometries.

From January 2013 the company will commence the manufacture of these machines at the Miskin site, as global demand for these new products grows.