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As precision mould manufacturer and injection moulding specialist BM Injection was looking to replace an ageing, 3-axis, vertical-spindle machining centre of C-frame design back in the autumn of 2016, the company had three main requirements for the new machine.It needed to be of bridge construction for improved rigidity and have a nominal one-metre X-axis to provide extra capacity. It also had to be able to compensate for fluctuations in temperat...

For over 26 years now, igus has been a cable manufacturer, and the company is associated with many different materials and products such as plastics and chain bearings.Engineering Specifier’s editor recently visited the igus headquarters in Cologne, to learn more about the company, whose chainflex cables are worth more than €100m a year.

The detailed design and engineering of wastewater treatment plants is full of obstacles. Any mistakes madeduring the implementation can hardly be remedied.

In a blog post,Facebook has said that it will use artificial intelligence (AI) to find and remove terrorist content before other users see it after the platform was criticised for not doing enough to tackle extremism.Commenting on this, Homer Strong, Director of data science at Cylance - the company that revolutionised traditional antivirus with AI powered threat prevention - made the following statement: "Overall this direction is promising...

KTH is officially Sweden’s most popular place to study engineering, and one programme that’s seen a spike in demand – Electrical Engineering – also logged a record number of women applicants in the last year, according to new figures from the Swedish Council for Higher Education.The number of applicants for the electrical engineering programme, of which an increasing number are women, has picked up in recent years, after a...

The scaled technology and functioning interfaces are essential for Swiss Can Machinery I Hygienic drives from KOLLMORGEN.A solution for different applications and industries: the filling and packaging systems at Swiss Can Machinery AG shows how this objective can be achieved. The Swiss company turns to stainless steel motors for the actuators, for example when these systems are used for pharmaceutical products.

At Cornwall Airport Newquay this October, the BLOODHOUND SSC, the world’s most advanced straight-line racing car, will be driven twenty years after the current record of 763.035mph was set. Wing Commander Andy Green steered Thrust SSC to victory on 15th October 1997 and will be at the wheel of BLOODHOUND SSC as it is put through its paces this autumn.

Together with Swedish waste management company Renova,Volvo Trucks is currently testing and researching how automated vehicles can contribute to safer, more efficient refuse handling and create a better working environment for drivers. The automated systems being tested are in principle the same as those fitted to the autonomous Volvo truck operating in the Kristineberg Mine in northern Sweden since autumn 2016.

Even though nanotechnology might seem revolutionary, humans have actually been experimenting with nanomaterials for hundreds of years – albeit accidentally.In fact, stained glass windows came about as the result of a heating and cooling process that adjusted the size of nanocrystals in the glass. Medieval nanotechnologists may not have been aware of the scale they were working at, but this art form is widely considered as one of the first e...

Entering the 21st Century, Ikea has stepped up its home automation game and introduced its own system for smart lighting.A new range of products from the company has been named after the word ‘wireless’ in Sweedish; Trådfri. It is built around the ZigBee Light Link standard for connected lights.