Tony Synnott looks at developments in roller bearings used in pumps, compressors and wind turbines

Linear motors were first patented over 100 years ago, yet it is only relatively recently that they have become a commercial success. Jon Severn looks at some of the latest developments to see how, compared with conventional technologies, linear motors can be more cost-effective and deliver performance benefits

Tough environments require special technical preconditions. This applies especially for heavy load guidance systems used, for example, in foundries and surrounding areas due to contamination and heat

Modules can control servo and/or stepper drives and are easily programmed using Allen-Bradley's popular RSLogix 500 software

OEMs exporting equipment to the North American continent need to be aware of a change in the law governing the efficiency of electric motors used in machinery. Robin C H Cowley reports

Gregers Geilager looks at a low harmonic drive which combines filter and drive in an 'all-in-one-box' solution

Accompanying Ondrives' latest precision gears range, is a selection of precision pinion shafts

Luca Cariglia looks at the use of pattern recognition technology for validation of model translation and comparison.

The conga-BM57 features the latest Intel Core i7-620M processor with a core speed of 2.66GHz

Engineers are always on the look out for better and more efficient ways of designing and producing structures - so what is there on offer? Sebastien Lichtle reports

The very nature of rapid prototyping can make managing projects difficult. An increasing number of designers are using software configuration management (SCM) to deal with the vast volumes of code and other data involved, as Tony Smith explains

Gefran says its MK4-S and IK4-S magnetostrictive linear position transducers benefit from higher immunity to electromagnetic noise feature and increased performance

ISO has published a document that explains the differences between its truly international standards and those created by industry groupings

Festo says that its new MHJ series jet valves switch in less than 1ms and have a service life of 10billion cycles, yet they operate with standard compressed air

Belden's Hirschmann Industrial Hivision v4.0 is suitable for configuring and supervising Hirschmann managed products and third-party devices

A third-party test laboratory has undertaken tests to compare shielded and unshielded twisted pair cables for 10 Gigabit Ethernet communications

A new report from ARC predicts that expenditure on automation in the global food and beverage industry will reach $6billion by 2013

Dell is claiming that the new Dell Precision M4500 is 'the world's most powerful 15.6-inch mobile workstation'

Perma Pure's improved MD-series dryers remove excess water vapour from analysers without altering the concentration of other gas stream constituents

Visitors from 75 countries attended the exhibition with its 500 plus exhibiting companies