Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, Germany, released the fastest single machine in the world for inspecting tires thanks to the use of an innovative sensor technology that includes ten high-resolution probes working simultaneously.
Spur gears, bevel gears, splined hubs, and cams are ideal components for production using powder metallurgy. Induction hardening is a method to make these parts locally hard and wear-resistant with a tougher ductile matrix.
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland worked with Man Energy Solutions, Germany, and TRD Surfaces in Denmark to develop a new laser-texturing process for friction discs on two-stroke engines on two ships sailing from Europe to Asia.
The United States Air Force has awarded Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Oklahoma City a five-year contract for the remanufacture of F-15 fighter aircraft fin and plate heat exchangers at the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
Air Transport Components, Gilbert, Ariz, announced plans to establish a new MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will offer HVOF thermal spray coatings, grinding, NDT, and painting, and plans to expand these offerings in the future.
