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- Many solutions in one package, by Carel Snyman
- Hey there! EE Publishers is using Twitter
- How to transform your business - get your black belt in "Six Sigma"
- "Going green" and LED fairytales in lighting
- Enabling safe and efficient lighting globally
- Fast and flexible lighting installations
- More efficiency for 3-level inverters
- Tooth chain conveyors for glassworks
- Intrinsically safe tools for use in explosive environments
- Electronically controlled climbing platform
- Automating an art gallery
- Economic intermediate voltage cable
- Ex cable gland seals: human lives depend on them and recent research is assisting
- New cable and pipe locator
- ECA News
- Company, product, project and service news
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Carel-Snyman-Vector-June-2010Many solutions in one package
by Carel Snyman, BSE Warehouse

When vehicles were introduced to the world more than 100 years ago, a good number of them were electric. Electric vehicles use between three and six times less energy than petrol vehicles to do the same work. And they produce no emissions... (more)
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Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with other twitterers and receive "The best from EE Publishers" through the exchange and sharing of quick, frequent short messages and links. Join today to start receiving our tweets on your desktop PC, notebook PC or mobile.
How to transform your business - get your black belt in "Six Sigma" 
by EE Publishers staff writer
 
Book Review: The Six Sigma Way by PS Pand, RP Neuman and RR Cavanagh - introduction. Part 2 of a four-part series. Before you can assess how well you are serving your customers, you need to ask yourself: what are we doing and who are our customers? Too many people think they know the answers to this, but the truth is - they don't!... (more)
"Going green" and LED fairytales in lighting
by Otto Horlacher, Giantlight
 
So many people in the lighting industry seem to believe that "minimising impact on the environment" means getting rid of the more tried and trusted lighting sources in favour of the newer "more efficient" light sources... (more) 
Enabling safe and efficient lighting globally
Information from IEC
 
Widespread commercial use of highly energy efficient lighting such as LEDs is recent. IEC International Standards have been instrumental in helping industry achieve high quality and safety levels for energy efficient lighting solutions, resulting in broad adoption... (more)
Fast and flexible lighting installations
by EE Publishers staff writer 

For contractors, one of main cost factors in any project is labour. This applies across the board, whether talking about relatively unskilled workers clocking up significant hours or - worse still - the cost of qualified staff being tied up working on cumbersome systems that take a long time to install... (more)
More efficiency for 3-level inverters
by Norbert Pluschke and Thomas Grasshoff, Semikron 
 
Unlike wind power converters, central solar inverters bear huge potential for technical optimisation. At the moment, photovoltaic systems bear the biggest potential for increasing the efficiency of solar panels as well as of the overall system design... (more)
Tooth chain conveyors for glassworks

Information from Tectra Automation

 

Some industrial processes demand extreme conditions, and the machinery must be able to operate accurately and consistently under these conditions. If chain elongation occurs, the speed of a conveyor can be controlled electronically to compensate for elongation... (more)

Intrinsically safe tools for use in explosive environments
Information from Comtest
 
The results of an explosion in a mine or industrial environment can be so dreadful that tools and equipment used in these environments must conform to the strictest Ex standards. The Fluke range of intrinsically safe handheld test tools is designed to meet the needs of technicians working in and around hazardous areas... (more)
Electronically controlled climbing platform
Information from Control Techniques
 
When a suitable modular climbing platform could not be found, the solution was to design one. Delta's senior engineer spent six months planning, designing and fabricating the electronic climbing platform, reputedly the most advanced ever seen in the construction industry... (more)
Automating an art gallery
Information from ABB
 
The specialised lighting adds ambience to the building and aids with the showcasing of artworks. A leading electrical company was tasked with the design and installation of the ABB KNX building automation system, which controls the lighting of the three specially designed floors for the display of various works of art... (more)
Economic intermediate voltage cable
Information from Aberdare Cables
 
Intermediate voltage (1,9 - 3,3 kV ) cable has a reduced lifetime compared with standard LV or MV cables, because of higher operating electrical stress and low-cost design. Low cost intermediate voltage cable was introduced to the South African market to fill a very specialised niche... (more)
Ex cable gland seals: human lives depend on them and recent research is assisting
Information from Pratley
 
The primary function of a cable gland is to anchor a cable to an apparatus mechanically. This prevents tensile loads from being transmitted to the conductor terminations. Modern cable glands generally integrate additional functions... (more)
New cable and pipe locator
Information from HellermannTyton

Electromagnetic location is a method of locating buried pipes, cables and sewers. It has become almost universal. Its main shortcoming is that it will not locate non-metallic lines such as plastic pipes... (more)
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