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// - Real-time drinking water monitors

// - Co-ordinate control of multiple offshore platforms

// - Energy improvement: look at the big picture for real savings

// - Clustering feature enables integration of all facilities and control on yacht

// - Intelligent actuation allows better system control at solar power plan

// - Dc motors deliver high performance and efficiency for electric motorcycles

// - Small drives can mean big energy savings on production lines

// - Novel pumping technology operates by using solar energy or waste heat

// - Modular electronics housing system for individual electronics assemblies

// - Exploring benefits of quasi-resonant converters for power supply systems

// - 'Plug and play' speed sensors are insensitive to electromagnetic fields

// - Measuring ocean currents for efficient seismic surveys

// - Seismic package has 'extreme' channel count point-receiver

// - Seismic power source ups geohazard survey efficiency

// - New lasers offer more power-per-dollar

// - DTV semiconductor market suffers decline in 2008

// - Microbe has potential use in recovery from oil sands

// - System enables monitoring and control at multiple platforms

// - Repairing and strengthening of ageing offshore structures

// - Coriolis metering solution to measurement of bunker fuel

// - Next-generation nozzle check valve reduce operating costs

// - Tank farm operators show new confidence in fieldbus

// - Spot oil spills and leaks with the help of colour coded bacteria

// - Industry urged to act as refrigerant phase-out looms

// - Ball bearings benefit from 30 per cent less friction

// - pH monitoring system with online calibration capability

// - Redesigned dryer range boosts efficiency

// - Torque sensor helps to reduce engine friction

// - Stencil solution for ultra fine-pitch printing

// - Wireless power: the next wave in powering electronic devices

// - Streamer steering now crucial as market conditions tighten

// - Demand increases for clean fire suppression agent

// - Safe calibration of fieldbus transmitters

// - A multitude of means to improve fuel efficiency and cut emissions

// - Focus on fasteners and security

// - Two approaches to achieving short takeoff and vertical landing

// - Closer integration of reverse engineering and CAD techniques

// - Dc motors deliver higher performance and efficiency

// - New drive modules offer easy integration and more flexibility

// - Interior permanent magnets promise ultra high efficiency

// - Low harmonic drives ease stress on the power supply

// - Surviving the downturn: keep calm and carry on producing

// - Half-brick DC-DC converters offer wide input voltage range

// - Switchgear key for ultra high-voltage ac transmission

// - Filters improve diesel cleanliness by 500 per cent in mine

// - Coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35 per cent in next 10 years

// - Advanced analyser improves lab efficiency

// - Redesigned ball bearings deliver improved performances

// - AC drives deliver improved efficiency

// - Process analysers - pushing for the standardisation of devices

// - Robust future for low voltage ac and dc drives market

// - Multiple processes in one machine only

// - Material maintains sealing in hostile operating environments

// - Improving pH control and compliance in water effluents

// - Advanced solutions key to creating competitive advantage

// - Asset performance management: improving process productivity

// - Cutting cycle times for sintered parts by more than a half

// - System migration: make sure you improve control, not just replicate

// - Affordability, portability and precision key to thermal imaging

// - Optimising electricity supply to boost efficiency and reliability

// - Modular steam boiler

// - Co-ordinated control ensures quality assured energy supply

// - Revamps of power projects are now key to automation contracts

// - Lubricating the wheels of innovation to reduce friction

// - Filter class recommendations for healthier air quality

// - Health monitoring systems are key to the modern plant

// - Quick steam generator boots automatically from cold state

// - Growth continues for single-use and disposable process systems

// - Modular steam boiler

// - Peristaltic technology tackles endocrine disrupting chemicals

// - Securing integrated Scada systems against cyber attacks

// - Smart wireless solutions solve compliance and complexity issues

// - Planetary gearboxes: a solution for driving peristaltic pumps

// - Materials focus on insulation, energy, emissions and quality

// - Plant studies support use of wireless in capital projects

// - Oxidation technologies for destruction of volatile organic compounds

// - Maths software gains multicore/multiprocessor capabilities

// - Freescale starts move to single sensor platform

// - Market research shows decline in demand for low-voltage drives

// - Cut cycle times for sintered parts by more than a half

// - Asset management: seamless solutions key to creating business advantage

// - Dc motors deliver higher performance and efficiency

// - Improve fuel efficiency and cut automotive emissions

// - 3D CAD: integration of reverse engineering

// - Peristaltic pumps tackle the problem water pollution

// - Inverter module offers higher efficiency

// - Permanent-magnet gearmotors offered with speed control option

// - Motor bearings benefit form lower friction

// - Refrigeration plant supplies rapid cooling

// - Fuel for thought: how to meet the growing demands of industry

// - Modular conveyor is easier to clean

// - Chiller cuts cooling energy costs by up to 50 per cent

// - Polymer for compression vanes in pneumatic tools

// - 'Significant' potential for electric drives in the chemical industry

// - Power amplifier extends talk time

// - Air conditioning features thermal wheels

// - CAE software suite includes 'first-to-market' features

// - Meet the challenge of collaborative management in embedded design

// - Latest PCB technology boosts power electronics performance

// - Top-down approach to the simplification of PSU selection

// - Hybrid vehicles: low-torque ball bearings

// - New range of touch-sensitive buttons

// - Power grid: modelling and simulation key to security, reliability and efficiency

// - Compressed air: saving a packet at corrugated packaging plant

// - Gas meters provide smart two-way communication of accurate data

// - Energy-efficient motors: new standard supports market

// - Efficient gearboxes ensure reduced energy consumption at sewage works

// - Monitoring motor vibration: it can harm both energy and efficiency

// - Chinese projects focus on the economics of heat recovery

// - Record-breaking wind-powered car gives a glimpse of the future

// - Ball bearings: cut friction by up to 65 per cent

// - EISA-compliant motors from European supplier

// - Safety system protects personnel and operations

// - Sensor upgrades for deepwater survey AUVs

// - Managing data for compliance and a competitive advantage

// - Low resistance MOSFET breakthrough for motors and power supplies

// - Solar cell metallisation drying systems

// - Exploring pulse arc welding

// - Actuation design evolves for potentially explosive areas

// - Bearing design reduces performance variability

// - Phase separation: meeting the technical challenges

// - Energy harvesting platform with wireless microcontroller

// - Navigational warning systems for oil platform

// - Radiation-hardened SPARC processor for space applications

// - High-speed electric motor offers high energy-efficiency

// - Mechatronic software design package in development

// - IEC launches portal for global standards for Smart Grid

// - Easy way to deploy technical content on websites

// - Combined linear and rotary actuator resists contamination by dust

// - 3D finite-element software runs fast on standard PCs

// - Power supply for high-performance X-ray applications

// - Magnetic sensor bearing designed for micro-hybrid cars

// - Alternatives to four-stroke engines promise an increase in efficiency

// - Electroactive polymer actuators feature microstructured surface

// - A good bolt securing solution will reduce overall costs

// - Magnets offer advantages as an alternative to mechanical gears

// - Automatic motor base improves reliability and uptime in critical applications

// - Spherical roller bearings offer a high load

// - Condition monitoring units provide sensing solution

// - International standard supports the market for energy-efficient motors

// - Drive for machine delivers on speed, simplicity and safety

// - Variable speed ac drives to change compressor industry

// - Harmonic distortion - how to combat an increasing problem

// - Motor efficiency software tool estimates payback

// - Ansys teams with Spaceclaim

// - Energy-efficient machine tool technologies

// - IP65 panel PC features high performance and a 17-inch touch screen

// - LED power supplies are sealed to IP66

// - Digital silicon photomultiplier improves photon counting

// - Microchannel technology applied to intensification of distillation

// - Investing in glass reinforced plastics for tanks and vessels

// - Particle size analysis reduces cement manufacturing costs

// - Measuring powder behaviour in relation to quality by design

// - Magnetically driven gear pumps give edge on costs

// - Top five dominate process level measurement device supplies

// - Overcoming clogging problems during the pumping of sewage

// - Accurate gas analysis drives process efficiency

// - Security of supply: meeting the operational challenge of maintaining

// - Motors help minimising impact of sulphur dioxide on environment

// - Modularisation - a key driver to power plant efficiency

// - Largest circulating fluidised bed boiler begins production

// - Automating functions at a Peruvian hydropower plant

// - Submerged tidal turbine goes with the flow on green energy

// - Organic Rankine cycle technology boosts onsite power projects

// - Stockpiling electrons: key to take-up of renewable energy?

// - Fusion energy: 3D software helps engineers develop next stage

// - Grinding elements take the wear and tear of coal pulverisation

// - Anti-wear and corrosion solutions boost boiler life

// - CAM software enhances productivity and efficiency

// - Centum VP integrated production control system now at R4.02

// - Pump technology advances on automated processing lines

// - Strategic tie-ups the way ahead for automation providers

// - Get smart and cut energy costs with integrated motor controls

// - Modular high speed separator makes maintenance simple

// - Legislation continues to drive novel polymer development

// - Key safety lessons outlined following leak investigation

// - Mechatronics design process simplified

// - Machine safety market in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand

// - Microchannel technology intensifies distillation process

// - Take a top-down approach to simplify PSU selection

// - Top five dominate process level measurement devices

// - Fuel efficiency drives next phase of automotive engines

// - Hose lines cut pollution to meet emissions standards

// - Most junction box is compatible with reflow soldering

// - Romanian cogeneration plant meets EU energy efficiency goals

// - Multi-billion dollar investment spurs US transition to smart energy grid

// - Holistic energy saving strategy unites production and the environment

// - Eco-design directive: does it go far enough on carbon reduction?

// - Steam management brings major savings in condensate recovery

// - Specialist lighting solutions reap economic rewards for industry

// - Hydrogen fuel cells: from automotive power to distributed generation

// - The global heat is on: preparing for a carbon-constrained world

// - Modelling, simulating and testing of renewable energy technologies

// - Digital indicating controllers for single-loop applications

// - High-performance DC motor is ultra-compact

// - DC-DC converters designed for rail industry applications

// - Low-cost right-angle planetary gearheads in NEMA sizes

// - Improve OEE and performance of packaging lines

// - Oil supply set to grow to 2030 with no peak evident

// - Increasing array of 4D kit as the market shows steady growth

// - Double naming ceremony for 3D seismic survey vessels

// - 768 fibre optic sub-sea riser cable sets new world record

// - Improving profitability and performance

// - Corrosion and fatigue: new ways of warding off old enemies

// - Throttle valve bearings are airtight

// - WEG - An expanding global success story in power supply, distribution, transmission, control and automation systems

// - Moduflex Lite air preparation unit are compact and affordable

// - 40A, three-phase power supply is 'smallest on the market'

// - Dynamic simulators for improved plant performance

 
 

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