The Engineer
9 November 2001
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Bosses should not fear directive
15 Nov 2001
The UK may have fought hard to resist it but after being snookered by other European Union nations, ministers will soon have to begin implementing a consultation and information directive.
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Business spirit of youth lives on
15 Nov 2001
One tough year after Helen Knight first spoke to five young entrepreuneurs who were making their mark in the engineering sector, she revisits them to find out how they're faring.
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Cost cuts link with steel tragedy
15 Nov 2001
Allegations that cost-cutting measures have compromised safety at Corus's steel plants were made this week, after a blast furnace at Port Talbot exploded killing three and leaving five critically injured.
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Designs on leading the mobile revolution
15 Nov 2001
Telecommunications firm TTPCom is recruiting engineers to design the increasingly sophisticated chips needed to cope with advances in mobile telephony.
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Economic prophet senses revival
15 Nov 2001
UK exporters to the US may have to wait until 2003 before the US economy revives, according to Gail Fosler, one of the country's more authoritative economic forecasters.
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Full-scale prototype hydrogen generator debuts
15 Nov 2001
Proton Energy Systems has completed the construction and commenced in-house testing of its first full-scale, high pressure, prototype compact hydrogen generator.
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Measure of success for DTI scrap-rate scheme
15 Nov 2001
A DTI-backed scheme to reduce scrap rates in small companies has saved £200,000 and attracted additional orders of £900,000 for 20 companies in West Yorkshire.
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Stratsat proves more than hot air
15 Nov 2001
Use of airships to replace satellites for communication links moved a step nearer following an agreement between a UK-led consortium and a Malaysian investment fund.
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Totally clean bus service on way
15 Nov 2001
A Cambridge University project to set up a completely sustainable bus service based on solar power and fuel cells is expected to get the go ahead next month.
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Wishing for just a touch of reality
15 Nov 2001
While designers are generally happy with the results they can achieve with the powerful CADCAM tools of today, they do miss the feel factor when creating new models.
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FAA proposes new rudder control for 737s
14 Nov 2001
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has published a proposal to mandate installation of a new, improved rudder control system in all Boeing 737 models within five years.
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Video clips come over Japanese FOMA network
14 Nov 2001
NTT DoCoMo is to launch a video-clip distribution service over its FOMA (Freedom Of Mobile multimedia Access) third-generation mobile network on November 19, 2001.
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Chips on cards by 2002
13 Nov 2001
Infineon Technologies and Sony are to jointly develop secure integrated circuits for contactless chip card systems.
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Hamilton Sundstrand puts the air in the bus
13 Nov 2001
Airbus has selected Hamilton Sundstrand to supply the Air Generation System for the Airbus A380 commercial airliner. The award could generate more than $700 million in revenues for Hamilton Sundstrand over the life of the program. The Hamilton Sundstrand-designed and built system will provide the air conditioning and temperature control to keep passengers comfortable. It will be the largest environmental control system ever built for a commercial aircraft.
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Keep taking the Tablets
13 Nov 2001
A new breed of Tablet PCs are expected to come in a variety of sizes and form factors, from clamshell laptops whose screens can pivot and lay flat to create a writing surface, to slim, slate-like devices that can use detachable or desktop keyboards and mi
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Nokia licenses mobile terminal software platform
13 Nov 2001
Nokia is to license separate terminal client components and a smartphone software platform to mobile handset manufacturers.
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Parking assistance for aircraft
13 Nov 2001
At the Fraunhofer Institute, Dr. Volker Gengenbach has developed an automatic video-based docking guidance system that replaces the need for groundcrew.
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Bright lights
12 Nov 2001
How do you make a light source that burns hotter than the surface of the sun, has an aperture window less than 1.5mm across and lasts for 20,000 hours?
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Corus on song
12 Nov 2001
Non-linear laser welding is an emerging trend in tailored blank design and Corus is celebrating one year of production at it's West Midlands facility, Europe's first non-linear Nd:YAG laser welding plant.
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Enter the Kung Fu-bot
12 Nov 2001
Throughout history, man has used martial arts to attain some form of enlightenment, but now it seems that they're being used to further the 'personal' development of a robot.
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Flying with fuel cells
12 Nov 2001
US inventor James P Dunn is planning to mark the centenary of the Wright Brother's original flight with a fuel-cell plane.
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Fuel economy without the need for low sulphur fuel
12 Nov 2001
Orbital's direct injection system combined with Johnson Matthey's catalyst technology looks set to reduce the cost and risk of applying direct fuel injection to automobiles.
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Modelmaker or prototype consultant
12 Nov 2001
Ben May at PDD asserts that a company which concentrates on the technology of rapid prototyping, at the expense of the skilled people who use it, is a short-sighted one.
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Overdrive enhancements
12 Nov 2001
VX Corporation has enhanced the ability of its VX Overdrive CAD/CAM software to directly read, write and heal files created with other systems.
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Systemonic acquires key RF assets from Raytheon
12 Nov 2001
Systemonic has acquired products and intellectual property of the RF Networking group of Raytheon Company's Commercial Electronics business (RCE). Paramount on the list of assets is Raytheon's 5 GHz RF chipset.
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The pros and cons of miniaturisation
12 Nov 2001
Fritz Prinz, Professor of Engineering at Stanford University reports on new downscaled manufacturing techniques.
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Wilson outlines plans for offshore grid
12 Nov 2001
Brian Wilson, the UK Minister for Energy, today announced an ambitious vision for the construction of an offshore electricity transmission grid to be built along the West Coast of Britain.
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Making MOX
9 Nov 2001
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have launched a legal challenge to the UK Government's decision to allow Sellafield to start MOX production.
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Mini motor could crush kidney stones
9 Nov 2001
A tiny, inexpensive motor with simple circuitry may become the motive force in micromedical applications in the near future.
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Timken buys French component maker
9 Nov 2001
Timken has acquired Lecheres Industries SAS, the parent company of Bamarec SA, a precision component manufacturer based in France. Bamarec will operate as part of the Timken Precision Steel Components business unit.
