Through clustering, control environments can reduce the high costs associated with multiple redundancies in hardware, while still ensuring server availability

Novel actuator technologies are giving the level of fine control required to ensure that industrial activities reach new levels of efficiency and cost effectiveness

Energy companies have been developing business practices to comply with changes in industry, government legislation, and general shifting attitudes towards energy management

Dc motors are increasing in popularity due to their performance advantages over ac motors for applications ranging from high-speed automation to electric motorbikes. Jon Severn reports on a selection of recent developments in dc motors and drives

Saving energy on a large scale therefore is not rocket science, one area that is equally as simple, but in many instances is being overlooked is small motors and small drives, often driving continuous process items such as fans, pumps and compressors

During the design phase of a new automobile factory in Shanghai, ITT Industries' Bell & Gossett unit was called in to resolve HVAC system problems. The result is an advanced and efficient set of pumps sensors and controller that power the HVAC system for the large industrial facility

Rising energy costs and increasing environmental straining, combined with more demands for comfort at home, require efficient control and heat metering for the benefit of the individual consumer, which avoids waste of energy. Halldor Kristjansson reports

Heat exchangers have always been at the heart of industrial heat recovery systems, but the latest advances in their design are making them even more central to manufacturing processe

Various applications could benefit from a new pumping technology, ranging from domestic central heating circulator pumps to irrigation systems in developing countries. Jon Severn reports on the Non-Inertive Feedback Thermofluidic Engine (NIFTE) that is currently under development

High capacity cylindrical roller bearings for wind turbines will give added load carrying capacity, more reliability and longer life gearboxes for wind applications

Mark Keenan looks at the potential impact of femtocells and picocells technology on the small-to-medium enterprise

Software defined radios have been talked about for a decade. But technological developments coupled with industry demand could see software programmable RF modules becoming the standard for any wireless connectivity

A start-up company aims to dramatically change the economics of millimetre wave technology, with some startling results

Kent Hou looks at the options for protecting against overcurrents in designing electronics

Display screen manufacturers are constantly on the look out for innovative products. High-performance sealing can help maintain market dominance

Effective nighttime security is a critical deterrent to crime and terrorist activity around the world

Heinz Scharlibbe looks at a new modular electronics housing system which provides a home for individual electronics solutions destined for applications in industry, process automation and building technology

Jon Harper looks at how equipment makers can bring the efficiency advantages and lower EMI of quasi-resonant power conversion to lower power systems.

Sealing is a very complex science by itself as it involves many physical aspects, including mechanical design, materials science, surface science and fluid behaviour