Photovoltaic panels are made of thin and extraordinarily fragile sheets of glass. To ensure their safe movement and precise positioning, the company Heckert-B.X.T. Solar, situated in the state of Saxony, puts its faith in the TSsolar transfer system made by Rexroth.
These are the characters in Jens Bonitz’ nightmares: splintered glass, ruined PV cells, littered transfer [...]
The mood in Europe’s board rooms is by no means as gloomy as the current world economic situation might have us suppose. This was the somewhat surprising result of a poll of 2,600 companies, conducted by Simon Kucher & Partners corporate consultants.
In spite of declines in orders received and the credit crunch, the vast majority [...]
The new EU Machinery Directive went into force at the end of 2009 and imposed new safety requirements. How should these regulations actually be implemented when designing machine controls? A guideline.
On December 29, 2009, the new 2006/42/EC Machinery Directive went into effect. In addition, a new standard on functional safety, ISO 13849-1, became binding earlier. [...]
Less and less energy in, more and more production out. Can that work? It can. And it must.
The good old-fashioned incandescent light bulb will soon go out forever. Thrifty consumers and demanding legislators have banned it from Europe’s shelves as of 2012. And many more products and technologies are likely to suffer the light bulb’s [...]