The Engineer
19 October 2001
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Attack the problem on four fronts
25 Oct 2001
The problems faced by UK manufacturing industry are severe, and are in part dictated by the weakness of the world economy.
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BT looks to its R&D arm for £200m revenue boost
25 Oct 2001
BT has been forced to scale down plans for its 'corporate incubator' Brightstar which was launched a year ago to help its R&D engineers set up new technology companies.
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East China heralded as a land of opportunity for UK business
25 Oct 2001
British companies are well placed to win contracts worth billions of pounds in Shanghai and East China, the Minister for Energy and Industry, Brian Wilson, said today.
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Marine sector will be the 'toughest test yet' for PLM
25 Oct 2001
IBM and Dassault Systemes are to target the global shipbuilding industry as a key growth market for their range of product lifecycle management software and services.
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RoboDog leads to another pet project
25 Oct 2001
Its doggy antics and e-mail reading ability give the robotic canine an endearing novelty status.But for its designer its successful performance points the way to more serious applications.
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The turnround of Leyland Trucks
25 Oct 2001
As a way to make a living in this country, manufacturing is decidedly tough - especially after the events of September 11. But it can be done, as a new text book tracing the troubles and transformation of Leyland Trucks explains.
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ThyssenKrupp to acquire part of Valmet
25 Oct 2001
Metso Corporation has agreed to sell 10 per cent of its shares of Valmet Automotive to ThyssenKrupp Automotive.
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Unions call for £1bn aid package
25 Oct 2001
Engineers and union leaders have called on the government to provide aid to the crisis-hit aerospace industry following the announcement of heavy job losses at Rolls-Royce.
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Upbeat solutions for a depressed market
25 Oct 2001
As part of a five-year expansion plan, contract equipment manufacturer Texol Technical Solutions is to create over 250 jobs, many in engineering and product design.
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May the force be with you
24 Oct 2001
Based on a CPCI-550 single board computer, Force Computers' Centellis 4550 3U system is powered by Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz processor. This four-slot, H.110 computer telephony (CT) bus-compatible system provides a Solaris 8 operating system-ready solution ideal for network firewall security, Web caching, digital subscriber line (DSL) concentration, Internet protocol (IP) over satellite, video on demand and other customer premises equipment (CPE) applications.
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Merger deal nuked by US DOJ
24 Oct 2001
The Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed acquisition of Newport News Shipbuilding by General Dynamics Corporation.
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Where's the ice?
24 Oct 2001
Goodrich Corporation has unveiled its new IceHawk wide area ice detection system.
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Give the folks in China a bell
23 Oct 2001
China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and Alcatel will sign an MOU today to create Alcatel Shanghai Bell, a company that will integrate Alcatel's key operations in China with Shanghai Bell.
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Hands across the water
23 Oct 2001
Osaka Gas has reached an agreement with Ebara Ballard, Ebara, and Ballard Generation Systems to jointly develop polymer electrolyte fuel cells.
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Kvaerner sells out to Yukos Oil for $100 million
23 Oct 2001
Kvaerner has reached an agreement to sell Kvaerner Oil & Gas' London based Hydrocarbons business and Kvaerner Process Technology, to Yukos Oil of Russia.
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'Smart' fence to signal intrusion
23 Oct 2001
Penn State researchers have developed an inexpensive approach to equipping new or existing fences with the capability to detect, locate and classify intruders.
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Solectron to make NEC gear
23 Oct 2001
Solectron and NEC have signed a letter of intent for NEC to transfer the manufacturing business of NEC Ibaraki to Solectron.
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'Yellowstone' moves data at 3.2GHz
23 Oct 2001
Rambus has unveiled its latest memory technology development effort, code-named 'Yellowstone', that, it claims, is capable of data transfer rates of 3.2 GHz.
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950 million Euros worth of air
22 Oct 2001
Mann+Hummel has signed an MOU with Solvay aimed at the acquisition of Solvay's automotive Air Induction Systems and Technical Parts activities.
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MPEG4 video codec is all hardware
22 Oct 2001
UK-based IndigoVision Group has developed an MPEG4 codec that will add advanced video capabilities to products from handhelds to set-top boxes.
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Scramjets to power Australian space trip
22 Oct 2001
An international consortium is attempting the world's first flight tests using a supersonic combustion engine 500km north of Adelaide in Australia.
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Akzo Nobel and Shell to develop low cost solar panels
19 Oct 2001
Akzo Nobel and Shell Renewables have signed a joint development agreement to pilot a low cost process for mass-producing flexible solar cell panels.
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Data exchange is not a problem
19 Oct 2001
Only 5% of mechanical engineering CAD/CAM users with responsibility for data exchange view this as a major problem, according to recent research.
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Self-adaptive silicon boosts performance of analog and RF designs
19 Oct 2001
Self-Adaptive Silicon, a technology breakthrough from start-up Impinj, promises to eliminate the bottleneck of integrating analog and RF circuitry in a digital CMOS process.
