Towards the end of 2003, IMS Research reported that 42.7percent of respondents to its survey of automation product users were expecting to be utilising wireless networks for industrial applications within three years.

It seems that there is always scope to increase the efficiency of the internal combustion engine by small increments, yet there remains a desire to find the next step change in efficiency for automotive powerplants.

Dassault Systèmes recently announced the release of Version 6.6 of Abaqus, its advanced finite element analysis software suite within the Simulia product portfolio.

Since October 2004, when European Design Engineer last covered the subject of nanotechnology, this field has made tremendous progress. Vast sums of money are being invested in nanotechnology developments here in Europe, and researchers in the USA are also extremely active.

If you read almost any press release for the latest version of a CAD, solid modelling or surface modelling package, you will inevitably find claims of increased functionality and improvements to the user interface.

The new generations of moulding machines create an impressive set of data – this is the information age, after all. However, the number of moulders taking advantage of this information, is anything but impressive.

The integrated CAD/CAM/CAPP system Adem 8.0 has been released by Adem Technologies. One of the most important features of the Adem software is that the technical drawing and 3D modelling, as well as technological, archiving and other functions of the system, are combined in the same working environment.

On-board battery management incorporates ‘soft’ battery charger, deep discharge protection and overload protection to ensure long battery service life.

Phoenix Contact's latest Trio Power power supplies are versatile, reliable, user-friendly, and still competitively priced.

Eliminates the risk of electrostatic discharge, meeting the requirements of all regulations and ATEX 94/9 approved already in 2005.

Psifeye is an automated system for proofreading documents containing symbols, graphics, chemical formulae and charts

Solidworks is launching PDMWorks Enterprise for organisations that need more than the capabilities found in PDMWorks Workgroup

Output voltage of 24 V dc and the output currents of 2.5, 5, 10, and 20A can be used without limitations at ambient temperatures of up to 55 deg C

Process enables any 3D object to be decorated with full colour design or photographic quality image by dye diffusion, bonding it into the surface

Suitable for industrial applications, especially pressurised cable monitoring systems and pick and place machines in industrial automation

Nika is unveiling version 7 of fluid flow and heat transfer simulation software: EFD.Lab, EFD.V5 for Catia V5 and EFD.Pro for Pro/Engineer

Sensortechnics is introducing the KTE3000CS transducer that delivers precision hydrostatic level measurement for pressure ranges from 250mbar

New Scale Technologies claims that Squiggle motor is half the size of other micro-motors and offers ten times the precision and push force

Aerco is now able to create solenoids that exactly match a customer's specification - or that replicate obsolete standard products

Corus says that trials have shown its automotive spring-grade wire rod to be suitable for producing transmission springs