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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation yesterday signed a technology licensing agreement with its powertrain JV enterprise in China Harbin Dongan Automotive Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. for 4- and 5-speed automatic transmissions.
Dongan Automotive began construction work on a new factory in March this year that is scheduled to commence production in April 2010. The new facility will have an annual production capacity of 150,000 units and will produce 50,000 units in its first year of operation. With this addition, the Dongan plant's combined capacity will risse to 300,000 units / year. In 2007, the plant had sales volume of 280,000 units.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 06:52 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
In the past 10 years or so, as spending on new military projects has reached its highest level since the Reagan years, the Pentagon has increasingly been losing the people most skilled at managing those projects.
When Paul Kaminski completed his graduate work in 1971 with degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, he started building advanced airplanes for the Air Force. By the time he stopped several decades later, he had played a pivotal role in producing a flock of new weapons, including radar-evading stealth aircraft.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 04:58 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial production.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 02:51 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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The Zondagsfontein coal project , a joint venture (JV) between coal-mining companies Anglo Coal South Africa, Anglo Inyosi Coal (AIC) and BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (Becsa), represents the first major growth project for AIC, a black economic-empowerment company created last year as part of Anglo Coal’s second wave of empowerment.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 12:50 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
Research by two Kansas State University scientists could help with the large-scale cultivation and manufacturing of oil-rich algae in oceans for biofuel.
K-State's Zhijian "Z.J." Pei, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering, have received a $98,560 Small Grant for Exploratory Research from the National Science Foundation to study solid carriers for manufacturing algae biofuels in the ocean.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 10:48 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
NEW YORK - Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc . said Thursday it will invest $200 million over four years to boost manufacturing capacity in India, as part of its plan to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Caterpillar will raise production of off-highway trucks made at its facility near Chennai, which are used for coal and other mining jobs in India.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 08:46 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Many manufacturers are turning to Digital Manufacturing as a companion to CAD, PDM as a way to accelerate and strengthen their lean initiatives.
According to General Motors, the amount of information required to describe the production of a product is 1,000 times greater than the information represented within the product design itself. Digital Manufacturing provides the tools to properly document and communicate these manufacturing complexities.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 06:44 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
OTTAWA - Hugh Thompson knows he's part of a dying breed, a Canadian manufacturer who still makes products that come with the red-Maple-Leaf emblazoned "Made in Canada" label.
The president of Cambridge Towel Corp., specializing in bathroom towels, rugs, shower curtains and other accessories, Thompson sells his Canadian-made products throughout the country through retailers such as Wal-Mart, The Bay, Zellers and Sears.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 04:43 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
FOLLOWING a period of robust economic growth (2004-7), with real GDP growth averaging 5.1% per annum, the SA economy became (almost by stealth) engulfed in what can realistically be described as a ‘perfect storm’. The three most prominent exogenous ‘headwinds’ include:.......
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Friday 27 June, 2008 02:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Canada's construction industry is being pushed to its limits, a new report says.
And the pressure is only going to get worse before it gets better, with 162,000 workers needed to replace retiring Baby Boomers, according to an assessment of Canada's construction labour markets from 2008 to 2016 by the Ottawa-based Construction Sector Council (CSC).
Another 94,000 construction workers will be needed over the next eight years just to keep pace with new projects. These numbers are above and beyond the 42,000 workers hired last year, a figure the CSC calls unprecedented.
"From 2007 to 2016, that's close to 300,000 construction workers. The magnitude of that should be a call to action," says CSC executive director George Gritziotis.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 12:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
Al Rushaid Group and Zeeco signed a Joint Venture agreement to build an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) facility for Flare Technologies utilizing Saudi Aramco's patented High Pressure Air Assist System, HPAAS.
This technology was developed by Saudi Aramco's engineer Mazen Mashour and supported by personnel from Saud Aramco's Project Management, Southern Area Oil Operations, and New Business Development.
The technology will enable companies like Saudi Aramco to better operate in an environmentally sound and ecologically sustainable manner.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 10:08 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia - Soapbox derbies attract scores of loyal, serious competitors who appreciate gravity, engineering and the art of making things go fast. The Red Bull Soapbox Derby is in a bit of a different class.
The four-race event this fall is still based on speed, but competitors also score points for creativity and showmanship. It kicks off Sept. 6 with a race in Philadelphia, followed by October races in Cincinnati, San Francisco and Denver.
click this link to read more
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Friday 27 June, 2008 09:18 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Cellulosic capacity is up and raw materials from biomass are emerging fast. Current pressures in terms of environmentally benign processing routes could quickly change everything for an industry like nonwoven fabrics, writes Adrian Wilson. Of the 1.725 Mt of nonwovens currently manufactured annually by spunmelt processing routes, around 75%, or 1.29 Mt, are employed in hygienic disposables- diapers, femcare and adult incontinence products. And 98% of such nonwovens are made of polypropylene (PP). However, a number of industry observers believe this may be about to change.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 08:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
NEW YORK — An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the city's futuristic skyline.
A few penthouse villas would spin on command using a voice-activated computer. The motion of the rest of the building would be choreographed in patterns that could be altered over time.
Speaking at a news conference in New York on Tuesday, the building's designer, David Fisher, declared that his tower will revolutionize the way skyscrapers are made — a claim that might strike some as excessively bold.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 07:16 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
KENT, Wash.- Flow International Corporation the world's leading developer and manufacturer of
industrial waterjet machines for cutting and cleaning applications, today
announced that Airbus has awarded Flow all of its multi-million dollar
contract to manufacture and install multiple Composite Machining Center (CMC)
abrasive waterjet and routing machine tool systems
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Friday 27 June, 2008 06:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
A high street litter bin that sorts waste and a device to help deaf musicians feel the beat are just two of the latest ideas by Cambridge University students hoping to bring new products to market.
The ideas went on display, along with eight more prototypes, at the Design Show run by the University’s Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) this week.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 04:04 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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Orbotech, Inc ., the North American subsidiary of Orbotech Ltd., today announced that ITL Circuits Inc. of Markham, Ontario, Canada has purchased a Newprint Maxi inkjet legend printer for its bare PCB operation.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 02:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
Frankfurt am Main / Rheinböllen, Germany - Continental , the international automotive supplier, today celebrated the production of the world's 500 millionth floating caliper at its Rheinböllen site.
"Each year, the Hydraulic Brake Systems Business Unit produces more than 33 million floating calipers at sites in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, the USA, Brazil, China, Japan and Taiwan",
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Friday 27 June, 2008 12:01 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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When GE's Energy division announced earlier this month that it had taken a majority interest in cadmium-telluride thin-film PV module start-up PrimeStar Solar, the Golden, CO-based company found itself on the solar manufacturing industry radar--and in this blog's crosshairs. Although not fully cloaked in stealth mode, the two-year-old firm hasn't shared much information about itself, starting with its detail-deficient Website.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Microfluidics experts, Dolomite , have announced that they have now optimised the fabrication of quartz microfluidic chips, enabling instrument manufacturers to benefit from the many important qualities of synthetic quartz for use within bioscience and medical systems
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 08:58 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
HOW do you make bikes greener and stop them being stolen at the same time?
You make them out of cardboard for £15.
And that's exactly what student Phil Bridge is doing.
Phil, from Heaton Moor, has already made a working prototype of the recyclable cardboard bike, as part of his product design degree at Sheffield Hallam University . He hopes that with further work it could revolutionise the way we use bikes.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 07:15 PM |
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