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World’s first bearing grease which is 100% food derived
The world’s first grease lubricant that is 100% derived from food grade ingredients has been developed by NSK.The development represents a breakthrough for any plants where machinery, production equipment or devices come into contact with foods, pharmaceuticals or cosmetics.
Aerospace industry lifted to new heights
The second-largest national aerospace industry in the world is the UK’s. With a global market share of 17%, it employs hundreds of thousands of people and boasts around 3,000 companies.As a forward-thinking industry, the sector is always looking at ways to progress using new technology.
Flooring could be the next big renewable energy source
Flooring can be made from any number of sustainable materials, making it, generally, an eco-friendly feature in homes and businesses alike.Now, however, flooring could be even more “green,” thanks to an inexpensive, simple method developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison materials engineers that allows them to convert footsteps into usable electricity.
Indoor mobile locator ensures user privacy
Rice University computer scientists have created a system for mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors without communicating with the cloud, networks or other devices. The battery-saving scheme uses image recognition and "hashing," a method that reduces key details in a photo to short strings of numbers called hashes. To determine a location, the system hashes a photo from the user's camera and compares it against a pre-downloaded...
Safe storage method key to hydrogen-powered vehicles
A major new discovery by scientists at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff in the UK, and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, has shown that hydrocarbon wax rapidly releases large amounts of hydrogen when activated with catalysts and microwaves.This discovery of a potential safe storage method, reported in the Nature journalScientific Reports, could pave the way for widespread adoption of hydr...
Compact tactical grade IMU features precision and stability
At the Commercial UAV Show (19th-20th October, stand 27) in London, UK, Analog Devices has introduced a tactical grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) featuring precision and stability in the smallest, lightest and lowest power solution available. The high-performance ADIS16490 IMU paves the way for high-accuracy navigation, guidance, and positioning.
EU call for the chip of the future
Speaking at the HiPEAC Autumn 2016 Computing Systems Week, Sandro D’Elia of the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission has made clear the shift of focus of the next round of European funding for customised and low energy computing.2016 has seen a stronger EU policy focus on the technologies for digitising industry, and so it has been possible to allocate funding to a topic on hardw...
British Quality Foundation Lean Six Sigma Award goes to WEG
Awarded the prestigious Lean Six Sigma Award by the British Quality Foundation (BQF) during the UK Excellence Awards Ceremony, WEG beat finalists including Siemens and Shop Direct.The 2016 Lean Six Sigma Award recognises the work businesses do to improve their performance and achieve sustainable excellence through delivering Lean Six Sigma innovations to customers, shareholders and other key stakeholders.
Rehm expands presence in Mexico
Rehm Thermal Systems has been present in sales and service partners in North America and Latin America for several years. Large automotive suppliers and global electronics manufacturers are increasingly located in Mexico. Rehm has taken account of this development and established its own branch office in Guadalajara in 2014 for distribution, spare parts supply and service.
Energy harvesting wireless modules for IoT applications
Energy harvesting wireless modules and white label products are to be offered by EnOcean under the brand name 'Dolphin – Self-powered IoT by EnOcean' in the future.The Dolphin portfolio includes energy harvesting wireless modules for use in building automation and smart homes with EnOcean wireless technology on the sub 1GHz band.