查看更多>>摘要：Componenta has cut production, reduced its permanent and temporary workforce by 1,600 people and predicted a fall of 30 million euros in investments for 2009 compared to 2008 - all because of a decline in orders. At the end of Septem6er2008, Componenta's personnel, including leased employees, numbered 5,300 employees. Reacting to the market change in the latter part of 2008, leased personnel were decreased by 580 employees during October - November. Then 170 permanent employees were made redundant before the end of the year. The use of external subcontractors was reduced by an amount to the equivalent of 150 people.
查看更多>>摘要：ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co KG (Kempten, Germany) received the gold award in the competition Innovative Products for Aluminium and Non-Ferrous-Metal Casting at ALUMINIUM & NONFERMET 2008 in Kielce/Poland for its new EKamold~R Cast-M foundry coating. The three-strong jury was mainly looking for innovations that improve the quality of aluminium products and are also characterised by durability, ease of handling and environmental sustainability. The jury was made up of two scientific experts from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kielce/Poland and a representative of the Polish metal and foundry industry.
查看更多>>摘要：Crowning a commercially successful year, DavyMarkham (Sheffield, UK), which machines heavy engineering components, has won two major categories in the 2008 Sheffield Business Awards. The awards celebrate the cream of the city's business achievements and are organised by Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and jointly sponsored'by The Environment Agency and BiG: Make It Your Business.
查看更多>>摘要：PMT Industries Limited is celebrating achieving both ISO 9001:2000 accreditation for its Quality and Management and the Material Supply to European Pressure Vessel Directive PED 97/23/EC accreditation. The Auditors congratulated the company on having achieved such a high standard in only 21 months of operation. David Moore, quality & technical manager said: "The PMT Team can be proud that by working together to clear, simple, systems the company has achieved such prestigious awards which will enhance customer confidence in product quality."
查看更多>>摘要：The Engineering Profession and the Engineer of the 21st Century It is impossible to predict, of course, what the engineering profession will look like one hundred years from now. The intense discussions that are currently taking place among leaders of the profession and educators suggest that innovation will be a central theme. The premise is that skill is a commodity and that routine engineering services will be available from low cost providers that can and will be located anywhere in the world. The engineering education therefore has to add value beyond just teaching skills. That skill is or will become a commodity does, of course, not mean that future engineers do not have to possess skills. Quite the contrary' they will have to be even more technically proficient than those making a living today practicing narrowly defined tasks.
查看更多>>摘要：Diran Apelian, Howmet Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and founder and director of the university's Metal Processing institute, has been elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Apelian, who was bom in Egypt to Armenian parents and emigrated to the United States at age 15, is an internationally recognised pioneer in metals research and is currently serving as the 52nd president of The Minerals. Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Established in 1943, the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia promotes and carries out fundamental and applied research in several scientific fields and coordinates research carried under way throughout the nation. It is also an official scientific consultant to the highest governing bodies of Armenia.
查看更多>>摘要：Believed to be the first of its type in the world, the flowing shape of the shopping centre required the castings to be flat or formed with single or compound curved profiles. Each weighing around 27kg, the panels were cast in aluminium to remarkable geometric tolerances to ensure a perfect aesthetic finish to the very striking building. "Casting these panels, each only 10mm thick, was made possible by the unique tooling methodology we created to enable the fine changes in geometry and to ensure no finishing was required on the front or sides of the panel," said James Grainger, director of Bridgnorth, UK-based Grainger & Worrall, a company with an excellent reputation for the production of cast components for the automotive and Motorsport industries. "This project has opened the eyes of architects as to the possibility of using castings for their aesthetic qualities on the face of buildings and to the potential the process can offer them for new and exciting building finishes."
查看更多>>摘要：While many foundry operations are now automated, surface treatment frequently involves a lot of manual input, resulting in one of the most labour-intensive and costly operations within a foundry. Regardless of how a component is cast, tasks such as de-sanding, de-burring and surface cleaning are often carried out manually. Not only are they extremely time consuming and highly labour-intensive, the quality of manual blasting depends largely on the skills of the person who is blasting, resulting in a process that may not be consistent or documentable. High quality shot blast results are, however, a crucial quality aspect for any foundry product and an important competitive factor.
查看更多>>摘要：A new buzz term - 'real time companies' - is being heralded, which includes responding to customer demands or operational anomalies in real time, meeting delivery deadlines, optimising production processes and the deployment of materials, monitoring energy consumption, or optimising warehouse inventories. Correspondingly, the primary goal of 'real time' is that data for making decisions becomes available in a timely manner, meaning immediately after it becomes known. Also, most companies have recognised that strategies oriented towards conditions are an important lever for adjusting to increasing productivity and accessibility.
查看更多>>摘要：This article is based on one published in the November 2008 issue of FOUNDRY, produced by ABB Robotics AB, Sweden (www.abb.com/ robotics) with contributions from Foundry Trade Journal editor Lynn Postle following her visit to the Chennai plant in 2008. The highway from Chennai airport in South India provides vivid proof of the country's love affair with the car. Aged autos with rusted bodywork vie for space with luxurious new limousines and, regardless of their age or condition, there's a deafening passion for the horn.
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