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  • New IAEA database tracks spent fuel and radioactive waste

    The Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Information System (SRIS) will provide an integrated view of national and global spent fuel and radioactive waste inventories as well as relevant laws and policies.

  • Permanent magnet materials for electric motors

    The demand for permanent magnets in electric motors is growing, and designers need to understand the benefits and tradeoffs of the high energy magnet materials available today.

  • Video: DOE reveals Waves to Water prize winners

    The competition promotes the use of wave energy-powered desalination to provide potable drinking water for remote coastal and island communities.

  • Team develops mole-bot for drilling, space applications

    A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a robot inspired by the African mole-rat and European mole.

  • Five ways companies can help fight climate change

    Integrating sustainable business practices is essential for all industries if the planet is to stay healthy. These are five ways that businesses and industries can start switching from wasteful to helpful.

  • Team turning chemical components of batteries into fertilizer

    In an effort to build a circular battery economy, a company based in Australia is using manganese and zinc recovered from alkaline batteries as a supplement for fertilizer.

  • Empowering power for the digital age

    The power supplies for today’s automation systems must be significantly more intelligent, robust and secure than any power component in widespread use today.

  • Companies work together to develop seal for high-pressure valves

    Following the development of a single-sealed valve, a valve manufacturer and a sealing manufacturer worked together to engineer a custom seal to support the valve’s design.

  • Germany-based company redesigns its line of gas non-return valves

    Witt, a gas technology manufacturer, introduced its new generation of gas non-return valves, which allow plant engineers to construct smaller systems.

  • Cobots improve efficiency and reduce floorspace for electronics provider

    Benchmark Electronics deployed six cobots for assembly and testing. Their results: greater efficiency, floorspace.

  • Researchers create technique for improving time-of-death estimates

    Teams from Amsterdam UMC, the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) have developed a technique that improves the accuracy of time-of-death estimates at crime scenes to within less than an hour of the subject’s death.

  • The Pulse360: Industrial Marketers Look Toward the Future as Coronavirus Continues to Impact Plans, Part 1

    Over the past few months, IEEE GlobalSpec has been tracking how industrial marketers have been impacted by the coronavirus. While things are far from back to normal, the initial shock of the pandemic has begun to wear off for many, and marketers in the manufacturing space are beginning to think about how the rest of their year might play out. As some businesses begin to reopen across the United States and around the globe, we asked industrial marketers how their 2020 marketing strategy has been affected.

  • Study: Zinc alloy automotive parts outperform aluminum alloy parts

    Researchers from Cranfield University’s Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Center in the U.K. have determined that manufacturing automotive components in zinc alloys versus aluminum alloys could lead to longer lasting, lighter weight and less expensive parts.

  • An intro to mechanical brakes

    Mechanical brakes are necessary in industrial settings for power transmission applications such as material handling and manufacturing.

  • Motorized linear stages for vacuum and ultra high vacuum

    The linear stage family provides high precision, with repeatability up to 0.1 microns.

  • The igus® virtual trade show booth: Discover 100 new and innovative products remotely

    Our booth is built and ready to go (virtually)! Discover top new igus® products here.

  • HYDAC debuts small directional control valve

    Fluid technology company HYDAC has announced its HPK06 series of 5,000 psi 3.5 gpm directional flow control valves.

  • Pulsafeeder announces new valve

    Fluid handling tech group Pulsafeeder has announced an addition to its PulsaPro line of hydraulically actuated diaphragm metering pumps, with the introduction of the Hypo Valve, which pumps effervescent fluids such as sodium hypochlorite.

  • Flowrox offers redesigned line of slurry knife gate valves

    Fluid control company Flowrox has redesigned its line of slurry knife gate valves, offering larger valve sizes from DN 900 to DN 1500, which makes them stable and easier to handle and access to perform maintenance.

  • Automated Logic automates VAV unit commissioning

    ACxelerate speeds the process and improves performance.

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