The latest release of Siemens’ Femap software increases engineering productivity in product development simulation and analysis due to significant enhancements in data handling and graphic performance. Version 11 (Femap 11) speeds data access by up to twenty five times and reduces memory usage by up to 80%, delivering a smaller more manageable model file.

Budgeting the future on one product or resource is never, respectively, a sound business or economic policy. That appears to be happening in the province of Alberta, where the government has been budgeting based – and betting – heavily on the oil and gas sector without saving for a rainy day.

Harting Electronics director of sales and marketing Hartmuth Schmidt demonstrates the company's range of Push-Pull connectors are suitable for harsh environments. At electronica 2012 in Munich, Germany, a variety of the products provide the linkage in a fibre optic system that include immersion in a giant block of ice.

MONTREAL – Bombardier's electric transit Primove technology will be tested next winter on buses in Montreal, followed in early 2014 on a route in the German city of Mannheim.

AutomationDirect’s SureStep line of motion control products now includes a low cost of entry digital stepper drive in a compact package. The standard stepper drive operates with high-speed pulse input signals (Step and Direction, or jumper-selectable CW/CCW step) and has a selectable resolution range of 200 to 20,000 steps per revolution. Additional features include a switch-selectable automatic self test, digital filters to prevent position error from electrical noise on command signals, and optically isolated I/O. The unit’s switch-selectable microstep emulation feature provides smoother, more reliable motion in full and half-step modes. Operated with a 24 to 65 Vdc power supply, this microstepping drive has a running output current of 0.5 to 7.5 A.