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A track record of safety and success

A track record of safety and success

The use of bonding systems is gaining increasing popularity among machine builders as more and more come to recognise the potential advantages on offer. For instance, bonding systems enable manufacturers to incorporate new materials into their designs, combining their properties to best effect. Indeed, taking a design approach that embraces adhesives and sealants means that imagination becomes the only restriction in creating a new generation of class-leading machines.

17th September 2017
Moving up a gear to solve a classic problem

Moving up a gear to solve a classic problem

The origins of British Motor Sport began in the final year of the 19th century with a number of events described as ‘hill-climbs’, but a key event was to be a dash along a public road and up a gentle hill at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 1902. This event neatly combined the essence of what was to become sprinting and speed hill-climbing, and in 1905 the world’s first permanent hill-climb took place at what has now become the iconic Shelsley Walsh in Worcestershire.

17th September 2017
Blind rivets for body in white applications

Blind rivets for body in white applications

Advances in materials and the "Industry 4.0" are challenging the joining technology of the automotive industry. Requirements are the control of the setting processes and the fully automation and integration of the technology in the OEM operations. The purpose is to ensure high quality of all joints as well as fast and economic processes.

17th September 2017
Blind rivets for body in white applications

Blind rivets for body in white applications

Advances in materials and the "Industry 4.0" are challenging the joining technology of the automotive industry. Requirements are the control of the setting processes and the fully automation and integration of the technology in the OEM operations. The purpose is to ensure high quality of all joints as well as fast and economic processes.

17th September 2017
Where and when will we actually see Industry 4.0?

Where and when will we actually see Industry 4.0?

There are a great many people now invested in working towards achieving the goals set out by Industry 4.0. For a concept that started life as a German government strategy project it is fair to say that it has captured the imaginations of many engineers and futurists from around the globe. With so much effort being put into talking about the concept, it is interesting to look at the aspects of it that are close to being realised and, with so much momentum, consider who it benefits and if everyone is on-board with it.

17th September 2017
Subcontractor makes perfect Formula 1 parts with hypermill

Subcontractor makes perfect Formula 1 parts with hypermill

Previously working as an engineer in the F1 industry, it was the unsociable and unpredictable working routines that led Allan Carabine to set up his own machine shop in 2011, MK Precision. Working in the F1 sector taught the new business owner two valuable lessons; the first was to start with a 5-axis machining centre and the second was to implement leading CAM software to drive the machine.

17th September 2017
High quality engineering adhesives

High quality engineering adhesives

Permabond manufactures high quality engineering adhesives for potting and encapsulation of electrical components, bonding heat sinks, magnets/ferrites to rotors and housings for electric motors, electrical transformers components, sealing transformer laminates, coating coils, wire tacking and attaching electronic dies.

12th September 2017
The future of the data-driven industrial revolution

The future of the data-driven industrial revolution

Heiko Luckhaupt from RS Components looks at the short-, medium- and long-term outlook for data-capable industrial applications and what these new capabilities might deliver in terms of performance gains and transparency

6th September 2017
RS teams up with Crowdcube to help bring DesignSpark ideas to fruition

RS teams up with Crowdcube to help bring DesignSpark ideas to fruition

RS Components has announced that it is collaborating with Crowdcube, the leading UK-based online equity crowdfunding platform, to help members of its DesignSpark engineering community realise their product and business ideas.

3rd August 2017
The many uses of wire forms

The many uses of wire forms

Springs are widely used in applications across the many engineering and manufacturing sectors. So we might think we know all there is to know about them. But, as the experts at European Springs point out, wire forms are too often forgotten or overlooked.

28th July 2017
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