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Piezo actuators convert electrical energy directly into mechanical energy and allow for motions with a resolution in the sub-nanometer range. They achieve travel up to approximately one millimeter and high dynamics with frequencies up to several thousand Hertz. There are no frictional parts to limit resolution, also no mechanical wear, as motion is based on crystalline solid state effects. Therefore, piezo actuators are the ideal drive solution f...

Plessey Semiconductors has announced that it will be featured on a website showcasing 21st century British manufacturing, launching 23rd April. www.madeherenow.com, the brainchild of former Financial Times Manufacturing, Editor Peter Marsh, is looking to tell the story of modern-day industry through a series of articles, pictures and videos about four exemplar companies.

After extraordinary findings and technological innovations, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2004 to study Mercury will impact the planet’s surface, most likely on 30thApril 2015, after it runs out of propellant.NASA’sMErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging(MESSENGER) spacecraft will impact the planet at more than 8,750mph on the side of the planet facing away from Earth, out of view of engineers.

Stadium IGT have made a number of key appointments at their Eastleigh HQ to l design-led new product development and targeted sales growth.

NASA's groundbreaking science mission to retrieve a sample from an ancient space rock has moved closer to fruition. The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has passed a critical milestone in its path towards launch, and is officially authorised to transition into its next phase.

As the Environment Agency continues its work to improve flood defences around the country, in the Northern region, it has chosen to install a new spillway and hydraulically actuated penstock, which will make the flood defences at Market Weighton, in East Yorkshire, compliant with the 1975 Reservoirs Act. The project included a large trash screen and a new control kiosk all of which was designed and installed by ECS Engineering Services.

Thanks to NASA’sAsteroid Data Huntercontest, the public can play with a software application that has the potential to increase the number of new asteroids discovered. The application is based on an algorithm which proved a 15% increase in positively identifying asteroids between Mars and Jupiter during testing.You don’t have to be a NASA scientist to work the application - it can be used by amateur astronomers and citizen scientists.

Dropping a robot onto a comet was arguably one of the most audacious space achievements of recent times, but one concept mission being studied by NASA could top even that. Scientists are proposing to send a robot submarine to the oily seas of Saturn's moon Titan. The seasare filled with hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, kept in their liquid states by an averagetemperature of -180°C.

The topic will be ‘big trucks' when Briggs Equipment attends this year's Multimodal exhibition at Birmingham's NEC (April 28-30) to promote Hyster equipment for port centric operations.

Kontron has used the Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg to launch the COM Express computer on module COMe-cBL6 and the mini motherboard mITX-BDU-U. They come with fifth generation Intel processors and Intel Celeron processors. Both boards are suitable for a variety of applications that require multi-touch display screens or maximising limited power consumption.