Six months ago Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to millions in the Northeast and the homes of Consumer Reports readers were no exception. When we spoke to 8,389 of our subscribers who live in the affected areas of New York, New Jersey and ...
Tags: Generators, Industrial Equipment
Japanese home appliance retailer Yamada Denki will see a store in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, formally shut down on June 1. It said in the afternoon on April 22 that the store in Nanjing performed not well due to a supply chain ...
Tags: Yamada, Electronics, Industrial Equipment, Processing Machinery
Tie Rod Jib Crane Improves Safety and Efficiency A regional power generation company was using 3 and 5 ton hoists suspended from monorails in their weld/fabrication shop. Hanging over the workbenches, the hoists were used to pick up ...
Retrofit Frame Increases Forge's Tonnage Capability Erie Press Systems has successfully engineered and installed a complete retrofit open die frame structure at Patriot Forge in Brantford, ON, Canada. The project required replacing the ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment
Integrated System & Quality Assurance Drive Perfect Deliveries Lear Corporation's 94,000 sq ft, four assembly line seating plant in Montgomery, AL is one of the most modern and efficient facilities of its kind. At peak production, Lear ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
An auction is set to be held for the equipment belonging to a bust Wigan company. Family firm HW Glass went into administration last month with more than 50 staff losing their jobs. Glass processing machinery along with cutting, ...
Tags: Glass Firm, Glass
Sheets: An Apples-to-Apples Performance ComparisonWerner Rauer, Compressors Product Manager, Kaeser Compressors, Inc. Comparing compressor performances across different manufacturers has long been a difficult task. For a many years, it ...
Tags: CAGI, Industrial Equipment
Several producers and manufacturers from Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Italy, Spain, Poland, the UK, Germany and India participated at Latvia’s just concluded 18th edition of ‘Fashion & Textile ...
In March 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 8.9 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 1.0 percentage ...
Applied Robotics' heavy duty bag gripper is designed for palletizing applications involving the placement of various sizes and weights of bags over 50 lbs. It features split-fork design and clamp pads to prevent misalignment and maintain ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bag Gripper, Industrial Equipment
then use what you know for all drives to come:ABB's new low voltage,industrial AC drive portfolio is built on a common architecture,specifically designed to simplify operation,optimize energy efficiency,and maximize output. ABB's new AC ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Industrial Equipment
A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion between moving parts to only the desired motion. The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a ...
Versatile Workstation Is Right Prescription for Medical Manufacturer A medical device manufacturer who has been using Creform-built structures in its production facilities was faced with the problem of providing workstations for use in ...
On September 1, the Government of Ontario will repeal section 12.(3)(a) of the Professional Engineers Act, which means all professional engineering work on industrial equipment and machinery will need to be under the oversight of a licensed ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Professional Engineers Ontario, PEO
Toray Membranes Europe has introduced a new series of low fouling elements in the TML20D range. Compared to the existing TML20 series which the company says has already proved to be very reliable, the standard salt rejection of the new ...