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• Industrial Design: Only High-Class Coffee Beans Need Apply
  the approach helped realize a striking design in the development of Starbucks' Sirena, a high-end espresso machine for domestic use. Designers studied the traditional "coffee experience" cultures of European cities such as Rome, Paris, and Munich. In these sophisticated locales, the coffee shop has...
• Comparing the United States with Europe
  The United States is ignoring an enormous industrial potential by not having extensive passenger rail service on the European model. The huge amount of hardware required for passenger railroads, especially electrified rail, would sustain hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of well-paid jobs...
• German Tonic for America's Manufacturing Doldrums
  for components and subsystems. A trip to the upcoming Hannover Fair in Germany, the world's largest industrial trade fair, may let manufacturers do both in one stop. First, the weak dollar is changing the Eurozone mindset. "European manufacturers, and especially the leading German companies, are more...
• Europe: High-tech also-ran?
  The Hannover Fair kicks off later this month in Germany. Hannover has long been billed as the premier industrial event in Western Europe and a place where you are likely to get a look at the latest technology Europe has to offer. But there may not be much innovative technology to see, at least...
• Trade fair mantra: "People want to educate themselves, not be educated."
  in the U.S. has not discouraged European show organizers who think there is a market for versions of their own events in the States. They also feel that more people here would find it worthwhile to attend shows in Europe. The reason for optimism about industrial shows, claim Hannover organizers...
• Don't get locked out of Europe
  . Virtually anything controlled by less than 1,000 Vac or 1,500 Vdc that isn't an industrial tool or an implanted medical device falls under WEEE. European planners envision consumers and companies placing used equipment in recycling bins or returning it to the point of purchase. It will then be hauled...
• Programmable safety begets new standards
  Safety-integrity levels spelled out in European standards increasingly impact equipment designers in the U.S. Hard-wired electromechanical components were the only option for machine-safety systems in the U.S. until 2002. Standards banned programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from use in safety...
• Feels good, works well:
  expansion coefficient roughly equivalent to that of stainless steel. This prevents binding while the machine operates. The nut material is also nonhygroscopic. Embedded PLCs cost less, say European users A recent survey of purchasers and specifiers of industrial automation components revealed over...
• Hannover Fair: 11 shows focus on technology and automation
  The Hannover Fair, the world's largest exhibition of industrial and automation technology, takes place April 11 to 15 in Hannover, Germany. This year, 11 trade shows will host more than 6,000 exhibitors from 60 countries. Together, the shows will highlight trends, innovations, and key technologies...
• Featured Application: Laser Cutting Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Composites
  SYNRAD's sealed CO2 lasers are used in a variety of industrial processes including cutting, welding, drilling, and marking. This news brief features news and information from Synrad, and highlights some of the interesting materials and products that are processed daily by Synrad's line of CO2...

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