PA Consulting Group's second annual benchmarking study of manufacturing companies shows that the companies under review have improved their green performance since early 2011.The benchmarking analysis is a snapshot of four global ...
Major Tool & Machine, Inc. retrofitted two of their machining centers in 2010, changing to a CNC technology platform that was completely new to the company. Ten more such large-scale retrofits have followed, bringing increased enthusiasm, ...
Tags: CNC, Siemens CNC platform, machining centers
Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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The curiously high quantity of gear makers in Roscoe, IL, is related to the past peak of the machine tool boom in nearby Rockford. As is the case in many other industries, the gear making market has changed over the years, leading companies ...
Tags: gear, gear software, machine tool, coarse pitch gears
Roscoe, IL is home to many more gear companies than your average town of 10,000 people, but the reason is obvious. During the peak of the machine tool boom in nearby Rockford, it was critical to have these important components made locally. ...
Tags: Gear, Forest City Gear, gear software, CNC
Construction company Silcar,which has won a significant slice of the NBN building contract,is set to lay off 160 employees January next year. The company said in a brief statement that it would terminate the employment of 160 staffs after ...
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Latest savings programme is aimed to compete with rivals Siemens is intending to focus on reducing production costs and plans further job cuts in a bid to compete with its rivals under company's latest savings programme. The firm had ...
Engineering, electronics and high-tech giant Siemens AG of Munich, Germany has announced its intention to spin-off 80.5% of its subsidiary Osram (the world's second biggest lighting manufacturer, whose subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors ...
Tags: Siemens, Osram, approval, transaction, massive reshuffle
Upsolar today announced the addition of two members to its UK-based team.The company has appointed Bob Mills to the role of national sales manager and Stuart Tandy as key account manager. As national sales manager,Bob Mills is responsible ...
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Siemens has announced its intention to spin-off 80.5% of its subsidiary Osram. The plan requires approval of at least three-quarters of voters at Siemens’ Annual Shareholders' Meeting on 23 January. If approved, the transaction ...
Tags: Europe Osram, Siemens, LED assembly plant, transaction
put a new continuous casting plant into operation in August at the Taiwanese steelmaker Dragon Steel Co.The two-strand caster was installed at the Taichung,Taiwan location and is designed to produce approximately two million tons of ...
Tags: Siemens VAI Metals, casting plant, carbon and micro-alloyed steels
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Hitachi Ltd agreed to merge energy equipment businesses with combined sales of JPY 1.1 trillion (USD 13 billion), deepening ties between two of Japan's largest industrial manufacturers. Mitsubishi will ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has appointed Johan Cilliers as regional director of business development for sub-Saharan Africa and managing ...
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Along with the in-depth implementation of new medical reform, the potential demand in central and western China and rural areas has been further released, and the medical diagnosis, monitoring and treatment equipment manufacturing industry ...
Tags: new medical reform, medical diagnosis, monitoring, treatment equipment
With the launch of Simatic S7-1500, the Siemens Industry Automation division is introducing a controller family of the next generation for medium to high-end machine and plant automation. The new generation of controllers is characterized ...
Tags: controller, cable, medium to high-end machine and plant automation