Phil The Main Editor
We’re back after quite a long lay off busy on other things. I thought that I would start with a subject close to me (if not close to my heart); that is the amount of bureaucracy in modern engineering products for projects. Some engineering companies see it as a huge burden, jumping through hoops or worse just to get to be an approved supplier to major programmes. Continue Reading »Engineering Product Bureaucracy
Categories: Editor's View
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Tags: Bureaucracy, engineering, Health and Safety Executive, PADS, Product, quality
Phil The Editor
Hi there again friends – it has been a little while hasn’t it. Anyway, I thought that I would visit a number of things that caught my eye in the technical press to get you thinking about which way some technologies are heading.
You will all have heard of the famous engineer’s KISS principle: “Keep It Straightforward and Simple”. Mimicking nature is one way of ensuring that the solution is practical in technical terms but will it pass muster commercially? Continue Reading »New Technology Applications
Categories: Editor's View, Engineering Seen, In the news
| Tags: applications, Lytro, plenoptic, post-focus digital image, robotic fly trap, technology
I thought that this week, we should talk about solenoids and solenoid valves as they have wide use within industry, commerce, transportation and general security. This was prompted by an unpleasant memory that involved them some years ago. Continue Reading »Solenoids For Security And Transportation
Categories: Editor's View, Engineering Seen
| Tags: AC Solenoid, business machines, disc drive, electro-mechanical solenoid, fuel injection, latching solenoid, penny and giles, security, solenoid, Solenoids For Security And Transportation, transportation
Phil The Main Editor
In a previous post in April, I talked about What’s In Hydraulic Seals?. This time, I thought I would regale you with a few stories about the use of sealing technology in the engineering industry. Sealing technology has moved on a-pace since the age of steam. Continue Reading »Use of Radial Lip Seal Technology In The Engineering Industry
Categories: Editor's View, Engineering Seen
| Tags: elastomer, hydraulic seals, Hydrogenated Nitrile (HNBR), nitrile, PTFE, radial lip seals, sealing technology, TBM, tunnel boring machine
As you read this, you will no doubt be thinking how topical the subject is today! Sophisticated surveillance of public places in the UK and elsewhere in the developed world has been increasing in the face of increased terrorism threats, more rampant criminality and now social unrest. Continue Reading »Surveillance and Image Processing
Categories: Editor's View, In the news
| Tags: car park security, CCTV, Common Vision Blox, Image acquisition, image processing software, Stemmer Imaging, surveillance, traffic monitoring
Having just got over a hard disk failure on my business pc, it got me to thinking about how vulnerable we all are when it comes to making notes. The proprietary back up system did work up to a point but I found that simple things like the automatic address book on MS Outlook Continue Reading »What Is Transactive Memory?
Categories: Editor's View, In the news
Phil The Main Editor
This time I am having a general rant about equipment efficiency and whole -life costing principles. As practical people, Engineers will have considered doing some do-it-yourself (DIY) in the home and most will have actually done some in their lives. Continue Reading »DIY In The Workplace?
Categories: Editor's View
London's New Thames Passenger Cable Crossing
In April 2011, Transport-for-London (TfL) announced that the Thames spanning cable car crossing project connecting the ExCel Exhibition Centre on Victoria Dock in London Docklands to the O2 arena site on the North Greenwich peninsular will start construction this summer. Continue Reading »London Aerial Tramway In Time For The Olympics?
Categories: Editor's View, Out And About, Politics And Legislation
Phil The Editor
This week, I am concentrating on the functioning of engineered systems in adverse conditions prompted first by the news that Icelandic volcanic ash is again causing disruption to the airways of the UK and Northern Europe. Continue Reading »Keeping Going In Adverse Conditions
Categories: Editor's View, In the news
It is one thing as an engineering company to purchase raw materials, whole assemblies, tools, large items of equipment or a whole production line project from recognised brand-named suppliers. However, it is not always easy to get certain items for your factory engineers to build or adapt a mechanical/electrical production facility. Continue Reading »Engineering Stock Items for Industry
Categories: Engineering Seen
| Tags: ball screws, brakes and clutches, bushes, castors, chain drives, chains, clamps and keys, collars, engineering stock item, gearboxes, lead screws, linkages, motors, pillars, precision couplings, pulleys, right angle drives, rod ends, spindles, universal joints, V-belts
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