Industrial Technology

Adhesive bonding contributes to Formula Student success

It's been another highly successful motorsport season for UH Racing based at the University of Hertfordshire. At the German heat of Formula Student 2013, the team finished in a very respectable 23rd position in a field of around 90 in the Class 1 category. Indeed, it gave UH Racing the accolade of being the most successful UK Formula Student team of all time. It also picked up a fistful of prestigious awards, recognising excellence in individual aspects of this fiercely competitive, high performance engineering project.

30th January 2014

Autodesk first to bring CAM to the cloud

Autodesk has announced Autodesk CAM 360, which it says is the first cloud-based solution for computer-aided manufacturing. By tapping into the near infinite computing power of the cloud, Autodesk says CAM 360 allows users to take advantage of collaboration tools and shared data storage, and provides users with unparalleled ease-of-use and flexibility. CAM 360 allows users to rapidly engage with co-workers and customers, and turn around the most demanding machining projects much faster than ever before.

29th January 2014

'Engineer' is the UK's third best job

A poll conducted by LV=Research has found that engineering is the third best job in the UK. The study, conducted among 5,000 British workers, began by establishing the ten key features of a job that modern workers rate the most highly. These included job security, pay, responsibility, opportunity to progress, positive working environment and varied workload.

27th November 2013

The applications advantages of disc springs

Disc springs offer an advantage over coil springs by providing an equivalent displacement in a fraction of the space. This translates into tangible benefits for a whole raft of applications. A good example is in the support of industrial pipe systems. These are primarily are supported by rod hangers, base line or base elbow supports.

26th November 2013

Wave spring meets F1 challenge

When award winning manufacturer Yasa Motors, a company that specialises in very high power and torque density axial flux motors, needed a spring solution to help out one of its leading Formula One customers, it called upon TFC for help.

26th November 2013

DesignSpark Mechanical 3D design software

Free, fast and intuitive design software opens up new possibilities for engineers from concept design through to manufacturing. DesignSpark Mechanical, the new 3D design software from RS Components, is ideal for engineering and conceptual design, bringing the advantages of 3D design to every engineer across the world.

31st October 2013

Eplan wins major order from Krones

The contracts were signed in June: Krones AG is to modernize its CAE landscape and use the Eplan Platform solutions across the board. The order covers 140 licences and extensive consultancy services.

30th September 2013

Autodesk delivers pay as you go access to CAD

For the first time, customers can purchase access to a range of Autodesk desktop software on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis, in addition to traditional licenses, broadly expanding choices in how to access and pay for Autodesk software. It's never been more cost effective for designers, engineers and visual effects artists to get started with Autodesk software with virtually no up-front capital costs, and to quickly ramp up projects using industry-leading Autodesk software.

23rd September 2013

Bringing all the benefits of 3D design to every engineer

With intuitive, free-of-charge 3D design software, RS Components has made it easy for engineers to transition from 2D to 3D design, and enabled adoption by non CAD-specialists. Mark Simms reports.

23rd September 2013