Day: February 9, 2017

  • IoT ‘transforming’ industrial robotics market, says report

    IoT ‘transforming’ industrial robotics market, says report

    Sharmila Annaswamy, industrial automation and process control research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, provides an exclusive insight of the impact of industrial robots on manufacturing and how the IoT is changing everything  During the last decade, the advent of robotics has phenomenally transformed the industrial sector in terms of manufacturing capability. They are traditionally used to…

  • Rough seas: Resistors for severe environments

    Rough seas: Resistors for severe environments

    Resistor liquid cooling boosts 3.3kV medium voltage loads, and slashes resistor footprint in industrial and marine applications, as David Atkins, projects director at Cressall Resistors explains In motor driven applications like cranes, lifts, hoists and conveyors, air cooled resistors are common, but in medium voltage, high power applications liquid cooling wins out. A medium voltage…

  • Ancient continent found beneath Mauritius, say geologists

    Ancient continent found beneath Mauritius, say geologists

    Sci-news.com: Geologists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have confirmed that a small piece of the ancient continent Mauritia has been found beneath modern-day Mauritius.