Angels afloat

Angels afloat
Up in Alaska’s oil-tanker lanes, powerful tugboats watch over their big brothers. Nature likes to make us jump through hoops to enjoy her bounty. A good example is the complex and challenging job of bringing crude oil from the Arctic oilfields of Alaska, in the United States, to the contiguous “lower 48” – the American states that lie below Canada. First, the crude oil flows through the 1,300-kilometre Trans-Alaska Pipeline to a...
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Trends in design and implementation

Digital design, concurrent engineering and product life-cycle management contribute to speed up production and save costs.Once upon a time, design...

Integrated by design

Integrated by design

With more than 80 years of experience in the machine-tooling industry and a keen eye on the future, US-based Liberty...

A packaging pro

A packaging pro

Innovative packaging solutions, reliable machinery and the right kind of card are Horn Verpackung’s key to success. Packaging is not what...

An unsoiled reputation

An unsoiled reputation

A family-owned Italian agricultural machinery business grows with the new century, thanks to innovative ideas, environmentally friendly products and youthful...

Sumantra Ghoshal

Sumantra Ghoshal

The company collector Management strategist Sumantra Ghoshal has earned countless accolades. The management consulting company Accenture names him one of the...

An open and shut case

An open and shut case

An innovative new design concept, developed by Texas-based FMC Energy Systems, makes manual gate valves safer and easier to work...

Mechatronics – from fuel injection to robotic soccer stars

Some hail it as the mechanical engineering of the 21st century. Others have not yet realised its potential. Regardless, the...

Micromotor packs a punch

Micromotor packs a punch

A motor is normally supposed to rotate. Yet a Swedish start-up has developed a revolutionary new motor that walks. Electrical motors...

Keeping the right pressure

Keeping the right pressure

A new system will manage tyre pressure and temperature, compensating for any abnormality and making the need for spare tyres...