Concerns about personal safety are likely to drive investment within the oil industry in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon incident, according to analyst IDC.Following the failure of the BP-operated r...

HALT / HASS Seminar - Tuesday 5^th Oct 2010

To guide you in your product development, TRaC are hosting a Technology Insight Briefing that will both explain the concept, and provide a practical demonstration of HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening).

Mr. Bob Page of Reliability Plus, an industry expert in this field, will lead the presentation being held at the TRaC Environmental & Analysis facility in Warwick on Tuesday 5^th Oct 2010 from 9am to 4pm. This seminar will be particularly useful to Engineers who are managing new product development programmes.

HALT is rapidly emerging as a recognised means to dramatically cut development timescales through a process of accelerated aging. This is achieved by employing high levels of multi-axial vibration and rapid temperature cycling, either separately or in combination. Whilst the test does not mimic a particular reality, it very effectively employs environmental conditions commonly experienced in service, and so exposes design features and manufacturing defects which could lead to premature failure.

The registration fee (including lunch, refreshments, and set of seminar notes) is £110 (excl. VAT) per delegate. Attending delegates will also benefit from a 25% discount on HALT chamber hire for their company’s next

TRaC in the US gets MET approval

Mark Heaven, CEO of TRaC, has just returned from a seminar held by US safety mark partner MET Labs. The seminar not only covered US and EU mandatory EMC and Safety but also included presentations by DfR Solutions on Reliability Prediction for Electronic Hardware, Core Source Technologies presented Thermal Management Principles at the System Level and Verizon spoke of the company's progress at becoming greener.

Mark presented papers on the EU ATEX directive and it's synergy with the US Hazloc and the IECEX approvals programmes reviewing the routes to compliance and technical requirements whilst highlighting how time to market can be minimised by engaging with TRaC and MET early on in the programme and ensuring a qualification document and test plan is drawn up to suite all intended markets and avoid duplication. The cost reduction that ATEX factory inspection by MET fully supported by TRaC in the USA was particularly well received.

Mark was also able to announce the recent collaboration with BSI in offering an approvals programme for equipment designed to operate in explosive atmosphere, BSI is a well known and trusted brand in the

Atlas Copco has launched the latest edition of its comprehensive Compressed Air Manual. The manual contains 136 pages of essential reading for businesses that need the latest information about compressed air technology. As both a textbook for newcomers and a reference book for more experienced users, the 7th edition of the manual addresses the theoretical and practical issues faced by anyone working with compressed air on a day-to-day basis and provides products and systems facts, data, advice and tips for optimum performance.

Revolvo's almost £1m investment in two new GER CNC grinding machines has improved its throughput of large solid bearings (over 500mm) by over 400%, cutting the lead times currently offered by bearing majors, which average 18...

Legendary climate change campaigner Stephen Schneider died earlier this month after suffering a heart attack.

London took a giant leap towards becoming a more cycle friendly city today (July 30) with the launch of a cycle hire scheme.

Proposed changes to current pollution control standards for the Ohio River could equal greater amounts of mercury entering a river that already receives more toxic pollution than any other in the nati...

Growing concerns among scientists, public health agencies, government officials, and the public have prompted added interest worldwide in the potential health effects of increasingly common chemical c...

New scheme provides UK organisations with a superior, easier and more cost effective route to verify reductions in energy use to meet the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme