Industry (Production, process)

The project came to fruition earlier this month and aims to deal with various waste streams generated during the production process in the recycled paper industry. The system homogenizes the incoming materials using Genox’s advanced shredding technology which improves the efficiency of the customers recycling operation, whilst rigorously controlling dust emissions in ...

Source Form is a stand-alone device capable of collecting crowdsourced images of a user-defined object, stitching together available visual data (e.g., photos tagged with search term) through photogrammetry, creating watertight models from the resulting point cloud and 3D printing a physical form. This device works completely independent of subjective user input resultin...

The diamond composite will be unveiled at the RAPID + TCT show in Detroit May 21 - 23, 2019, North America’s leading event for Additive Manufacturing. Diamond is harder than anything else in nature. It is a key component in a large range of wear resistant tools in industry, from mining and drilling to machining and also medical implants. Since 1953 it has been possibl...

The boiler will allow the company to convert 130,000 tons of waste per year into district heat, industrial hot water, industrial steam and electricity. The boiler will have a thermal capacity of 20 MW and will be based on Valmet’s bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology with Advanced Combustion Zone (ACZ) for low-emission control. It will be able to run on a wide fuel...

G3DP is an additive manufacturing platform designed to print optically transparent glass. The tunability enabled by geometrical and optical variation driven by form, transparency and color variation can drive; limit or control light transmission, reflection and refraction, and therefore carries significant implications for all things glass. The platform is based on a dua...

The partners involved include Premium AEROTEC, EOS, and Daimler. A goal of the project was to develop the basis of a future system for series production using 3D printing technologies. The project team has been working on assessing the additive manufacturing process to see what kind of potential it holds for automation, and now the first pilot plant has been launched at ...

Introduction ABB provides an extensive selection of proven measurement and analytical products and solutions for power generation industry applications. Using ABB’s measurement products, power plant operators can maximize the efficiency of their assets and comply with local and international legislation. They receive access to data on many critical measurements needed...

120 million coffee cups will be collected for recycling by Veolia in the UK during 2019 - a 300% increase from this time last year, following 12 months rolling out its in-store service across the UK with brands including Costa, Starbucks, McDonald’s and Caffè Nero. Under the scheme coffee cups are segregated in store to prevent contamination, ensuring a smoother, more...

McCain Foods is a producer of French fries and other potato products. It invested $65m to the project, which represents the company’s largest investment in a Canadian plant in nearly ten years. The expansion created more than 40 jobs and will allow McCain Foods to better serve its retail and foodservice customers in North America and export markets. Detail of the e...

For a recent university project, New Zealand-born industrial design student Vimal Patel was provided with a small spool of biodegradable 3D printing filament and then tasked “to make something with it”. While the project clearly could have gone in any direction, the intention was to explore ways of designing and manufacturing products solely with biodegradable material ...

Customized CNC technology from NUM is helping the laser cutting machine manufacturer Favor Laser to accelerate product development and address new markets. Using special hardware and software designed by NUM, the Taiwanese company has developed a high precision laser cutter. Capable of producing very small or very large parts from sheet metal, with a feed rate of up ...

Nearly every machine module today contains electrical drive technology. The more complex the drive design, the larger the software component becomes. Modern object-oriented engineering tools like LASAL from SIGMATEK prove especially efficient, since they support drive train concepts. The motion control package, LASAL MOTION, is seamlessly integrated into the programming ...

Stadtwerke Rotenburg a. d. Fulda's sewage treatment plant is designed for a load of 34,000 population equivalent, and it actually caters for around 20,000 people at present. Three Archimedes pumps are connected to the secondary settlement basin at the sludge recirculation pumping station. They ensure that biological sludge from the secondary settlement basin does not flo...

The food company CP Kelco, one of the world's leading producers of pectin, is in the process of rolling out a controller-based, wireless network in its Danish factory. Working with iPads and QR codes, this will deliver tremendous benefits - significant reduction in costs and time as well as unprecedented flexibility. Imagine production without stationary operator...

When a production plant stops operating, rectifying any malfunctions quickly becomes an urgent matter. Using remote services to assist the technician is one efficient means here. However, many remote service solutions are technically complex and inflexible, or confront operators with additional security risks. For this reason, global automotive supplier ArvinMeritor, now...

When completely stuffed with components little parts can quickly cause problems when being fitted with an enclosure. Usually, the trick is careful measuring. Take some calipers, a piece of paper, and a whole lot of time and you usually come out on top. But there is another way, as Brad Tarrat over at the i3 Detroit hackerspace shows us; he simply 3D printed an entire ...

The same can be said about the Krak3n 3D printer, a large forthcoming model that features some very interesting modular options and at the same time remains interesting to both beginners and experienced 3D printing hobbyists. The Krak3n is developed by a group of four Hungarian developers based in Budapest. By their own admission, they were all 3D printing fanatics wh...

Anyone wanting to take things to the next level is currently forced of spending thousands on buying various manufacturing machine. But why not go for an all-in-one option? For a 3D printer that can simply be fitted with another tool head to turn it into an entirely different machine? That option is becoming more realistic on a daily basis. While several multi-function...

Back in October 2014 I successfully demonstrated a 3 mm ViVa actuator operating the intake valve of my 12cc EVIC Mk2 engine. The next step was to obtain the larger 12 mm ViVa actuator to see if it was up to the much more difficult challenge of operating the exhaust valve. To open the exhaust valve the actuator must overcome the high cylinder pressure at the end of t...

Specifically, this DNA is determined by links to your website by other sites, and the links to those sites and so on: a giant spider web of links that together shapes the internet. The position of your own site in that web, and the number of threads attaching to it is essentially a unique data set that determines what your website is and how successful it is. Of cours...

The company explained that the project located in the village of Herriard, Hampshire, has been delivered on behalf of Barfoot Energy Projects, a part of UK fresh vegetable farming and processing operation, Barfoots Group. MT-Energie said that the new biogas facility follows the success of its first food waste facility developed with Barfoot on the south coast of Engla...

Munich – Yamaichi Electronics is expanding the Y-Circ P series with a new back wall-mounted socket. After the successful introduction of the new circular connector series Y-Circ® P with push-pull interlocking, the product range will now be successively expanded. The new ‘WD’ socket type is a natural for back wall mounting in combination with circuit board contacts....

-- Tough, smooth and flexible for lighter weight, higher impact parts -- Enables short-run manufacturing of durable parts for small business -- Compatible with Infinity(TM) Rinse-Away water-soluble support for printing complex geometries and articulated parts -- Immediately available for CubePro 3D printers ROCK HILL, S.C. -- 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced today t...

High-throughput quenching and tempering process for wheels for high-speed trains Railroad expansions in emerging economies world, and rail system updates in the developed world, have sustained demand for wheel forming machines and lines over the past five years. Now, a heat-treating specialist has developed a system for hardening the rims or railway wheels of differen...

Under the terms of the agreement, Swire will provide funding to Purestream that will enable the company to maximize the enormous business opportunities arising from the robust demand for both dynamic water treatment and management capabilities as a result of increased drilling in areas such as the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford in Texas (see "System to treat frack water at...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has rounded up manufacturing and software companies to participate in a project that will demonstrate the advantages of replacing 2D computer-aided design (CAD) drawings with 3D virtual models. The project will outline the benefits of using standardized 3D models in a “digital thread,” from initial design to inspe...

New materials are making cars, planes and all sorts of other things lighter. The catch is that many of these materials can’t be welded. Now there’s an alternative joining me- thod available – gradient adhesives provide an extremely good way of ensuring joined parts stay joined for their entire service life and hold up well in the event of a crash. Shedding pounds is...

Germany’s Industry 4.0 initiative aims to develop industrial machinery with built-in intelligence based on smart self-monitoring functions. Researchers have now come a step closer to the ideal of a self-maintaining machine. A technology developed as part of the iMAIN project provides real-time online monitoring of unprecedented quality. Metal forming machines have...

Servicing biogas plants is challenging. Leaks from which methane escapes are particularly problematic – from a security, a technical, an economic as well as an environmentally friendly perspective. Researchers are working on a technique that helps to better detect leaks. In this process, a laser discovers the leaks from several meters away. There are nearly 8,000 bio...

Researchers have developed a coating technique that they plan to use to protect tur- bine engine and waste incinerator components against heat and oxidation. A topcoat from micro-scaled hollow aluminium oxide spheres provides heat insulation, in the lab, already proved more economical than conventional techniques. aerated concretes take advantage of this effect, which...

Thin-film coatings impart new properties to glass in applications as diverse as window glazing, solar cells and touchscreens. With the Megatron® sputtering system, it is now possible for the first time to vary the materials in these coatings in any way and to produce entirely new coatings with improved surface quality. The researchers will be presenting the Megatron® at ...

Almost every electronic device contains a transformer. An important material used in their construction is electrical steel. Researchers have found a way to improve the performance of electrical steel and manufacture it more efficiently, using an optimized laser process. Transformers convert the standard voltage from the wall outlet into the lower voltages required by...

Touchscreens and solar cells rely on special oxide layers. However, errors in the layers’ atomic structure impair not only their transparency, but also their conductivity. Using atomic models, Fraunhofer researchers have found ways of identifying and removing these errors. Smartphones, tablet computers, and ticket machines are just some of the many devices nowaday...

The quality control of component surfaces is a complex undertaking. Researchers have engineered a high-precision modular inspection system that can be adapted on a customer-specific basis and integrated into the production process. Before a workpiece leaves the production plant, it is subjected to rigorous inspection: because even the most infinitesimal fracture or ...

Powerful, inexpensive and even flexible when they need to be, organic photodiodes are a promising alternative to silicon-based photodetectors. They are used to improve light sensitivity in cameras and to check displays for homogeneous color composition. Fraunhofer scientists are developing just this kind of component to fit customer-specific requirements and will be pres...

Many harmful substances in waste water stubbornly resist being broken down by biological waste water treatment plants. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a photochemical reaction system in which water can be reliably treated at high flow rates by UV light without having to add chemical catalysts. They will be presenting an initial industrial prototype at this year’s I...