March 9, 2006

Lufthansa Airlines says automated publishing, made possible by PTC Arbortext software, lets it create and publish manuals that go to 4,500 pilots and maintenance staff.

Inductive proximity sensors typically mount so the objects they detect approach within 40 to 80% of the sensor target range.

NASA has given Flowserve Corp., Irving, Tex., a certificate of appreciation for custom engineering new valves for the agency's Johnson, Marshall, and Stennis Space Centers.

Electronic servocontrols are coming to paper-carton filling machines for juice and dairy products.

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla have spent the last two years developing a controller that may one day transform current engines into leaner, greener devices.

A desktop CMM system let Steven B. Kushnick P.E. Inc., Marietta, Ga., eliminate repeated delays and inaccurate measurements in analyzing turbomachinery failures.

A wide-body Air Canada aircraft moved between several gates and taxied on a British runway to demonstrate new motors and drives from Chorus Motors plc, Gibraltar.

NASA is loaning an RS-88 rocket engine to Rocketplane Limited, Oklahoma City, for testing in the Rocket-plane XP vehicle.

Compaction equipment manufacturer Bomag GmbH & Co. in Germany used FEA software to analyze and optimize the polygonal rollers on the company's recently developed earth compactors.

Lithium-ion battery cells made with nanostructured lithium titanate electrode materials from Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., Reno, Nev., exceed hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) power requirements of the FreedomCAR program, as well those of major U.S. automakers.

The Dynalifter, a 120-ft-long, heavier-than-air, two-seat blimp/airplane hybrid lands like an airplane so it doesn't need a ground crew like traditional airships, say designers Brian Martin and Robert Rist.

The Power Sources Technology Group at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, is looking at ways to make lithium-ion batteries safer and last longer.

Imagine a maintenance manual that helps diagnose problems and then guides you through repairs with vivid color animations.

Engineering software developer PTC, Needham, Mass., took the wraps off its third version of Pro/E Wildfire, the company's mainstay CAD system.

Intel says it has built the first fully functional SRAM (static random-access memory) circuits using its next-generation 45-nm process technology.

PhlatLight chipsets from Luminus Devices Inc., Woburn, Mass., based on the company's photonic-lattice technology, are said to be the only commercially available solid-state light sources bright enough to illuminate large-screen, rear-projection television sets (RPTVs).