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Profibus options for ac drives

Developed to allow the drives to be networked as decentralised peripherals in a wide range of variable speed motor control applications

Dynamic modelling 3D CAD available for free

Cocreate Software is offering free downloads of its Onespace Modelling Personal Edition (PE) 3D CAD package for assemblies of up to 60 parts

Embedded I/O designed for conveyors

Rockwell Automation is introducing a low-cost IP00 module for adding on-machine embedded I/O to conveyors

Growth in air pollution control technologies

Environment-friendly legislation creates exciting growth prospects for Western European air pollution control equipment market

Silicon wafers can be 'stacked like Lego'

A university team is using convex pyramids and concave pits on silicon wafers to enable them to be aligned extremely accurately

Treatment makes surfaces self-cleaning

Applied Laser Technology Group of the University of Twente has developed a novel surface treatment technique using an ultra-fast femtosecond laser

Polymer-OLED microdisplay

Technology does not require backlight; microdisplay suitable for portable applications such as video glasses or head-mounted displays

Fuel cells: redefining energy in the future

Huge growth potential – $197.00 million in 2010 – for the fuel cells market due to energy efficiency and environmental concerns

Coal gasification technology for China

Shenhua Ningmei DME will produce 830,000 tons per year of clean, environmentally-friendly synthetic fuel dimethyl ether

Hard drives reach terabyte milestone

Hitachi 7K1000 is a five-disk solution in a 3.5-inch form factor that uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology to achieve high density

Multi-standard RFID reader IC family

Integrated on-board linear voltage regulators that turn up the analogue, digital and power amplifiers provide power supply noise isol

Excess chip inventory keeps growing

Total excess chip inventory swelled to $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter, up 4.9 per cent from $4.1 billion at the end of the third quarter

Rack-mounting 80kV power supply

OL6000/803’s 19-inch rack-mounting chassis weighs a total of 80kg, making it one of the smallest and lightest in the industry for its output

Major upgrade for voice recognition software

Enact Technology releasing version of Speak4CAD technology for Autocad, Inventor, Solidworks, Sketchup, Photoshop and Indesign

Servo motor size reduced by one-third

Siemens Automation and Drives is introducing the compact 1FT7 servo motor series for applications requiring a high dynamic response

Fail-safe position sensor uses redundancy

MTS Sensors' Temposonics GT position sensor incorporates two or three independent, functionally identical measurement systems

Connectors take power and signals

Harting is offering its D-Sub Combo connectors with new contact configurations to suit signal, coaxial, power or high-voltage requirements

Self-cleaning mass flow meter

Insertion style GF90 Mass Flow Meter's self-cleaning purge ports minimise maintenance requirements and costs in dirty gas applications

Corrosion inhibitors for crude oil production

Korantin PP corrosion inhibitor reduces inhibitor consumption by more than 50 per cent; Lugalvan P, is an easy-to-formulate corrosion inhibitor

Telecontrol based on high-speed GPRS

Siemens Automation and Drives is launching the Sinaut Micro and Sinaut MD740-1 communication systems for simple and complex control tasks

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