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Renishawopens facility in mexico
To support its rapidly growing customer base, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, has opened a new facility in Nuevo León, Mexico. The building provides customers with technical support, demonstration and training facilities for the company’s innovative products in metrology, healthcare and additive manufacturing. Renishaw invested nearly 100 million pesos in the 3,200m² facility to
help manufacturers in Mexico become more efficient and profitable. The new facility has a variety of conference rooms, training rooms, and development labs to allow companies to work with Renishaw engineers to improve efficiency in areas such as metrology, additive manufacturing and motion control. It also has demonstration areas to showcase the latest metrology equipment and process control applications, such as advanced scanning, calibration and gauging systems. “Manufacturing is one of the biggest contributors to Mexico’s
economy,” explained Fátima Oyervides, marketing manager at Renishaw Mexico. “We originally opened the subsidiary in 2012 and had five employees. Now, to keep up with industry growth in the country, particularly in the automotive and aerospace market, we have grown to a team of 40. “As we keep expanding, we will be able to offer more support to local
industries. Our facility is not only here to give local support to partners by providing technical help and training; we are also here to educate and support the development of smart manufacturing in Mexico” Renishaw has provided advanced manufacturing equipment to
global partners in the automotive and aerospace industries for over 45 years. This facility in Mexico is one of many Renishaw subsidiaries that are located across 36 countries.
www.renishaw.com
schools use aiR monitoRs in vehicle pollution pRoject
Schools near Glasgow have been monitoring air quality as part of a project aiming to reduce the levels of pollution emitted by vehicles as they drop off and collect children. The project is part of a ‘Beat the Street’ initiative that was granted £50,000 from a new £1million fund to increase walking, cycling and sustainable travel in Scotland. The overall aim is to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions, improve air quality, reverse the trend towards sedentary lifestyles and tackle health inequalities. The Environmental Health department of East Renfrewshire Council
supplied and installed the three AQMesh air quality monitoring pods that were utilised in the project. The monitoring activity followed initiatives in eight schools organised with SEPA, in which the children designed their own air quality banners as part of a competition. The banners were then placed outside the schools which were then
monitored for two weeks with an AQMesh pod measuring a variety of parameters including nitrogen dioxide – one of the pollutants of greatest concern. The Council’s Richard Mowat said: “We used one of our own AQMesh pods and rented the other two from Air Monitors. The pods are small and easy to install so we were able to locate them close to the areas most affected by parents’ vehicles. “The results clearly showed significant peaks in pollution during the
drop-off periods and it was pleasing to note how well the project was received. We hope that this work will help educate the children and that they, in turn, will encourage their parents to leave the cars at home and walk whenever possible.” Anne-Marie Absolom is head teacher at one of the participating
schools – St Clares Primary School. She said: “The results from the monitors have highlighted the specific times of day at which air pollution is most significant, and the Junior Road Safety Officers are now campaigning at these times. The data gathered has been shared with all children in the school and they are passionate about spreading the word and ensuring that air pollution is reduced.”
www.airmonitors.co.uk
Rittal has formed a new global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens to develop intelligent edge data centre solutions for smart industries, smart cities, smart retail, energy and utility companies, and public sector organisations. The new ‘Intelligent Edge Data Centre’ (IEDC) is a highly configurable, data
Rittal teams up with atos and siemens foR edge and iot initiatives The technology can
centre solution that enables companies to process IoT data in real-time – using solutions such as MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, plus the new BullSequana Edge computing server and the BullSequana S server from Atos, Atos Codex Cloud Industrial Supervision (CIS) – thus optimising their entire value chain with an advanced, data-analytics solution. The OT Infrastructure has been developed by Rittal and is designed as an
edge data centre. One of the resulting improvements lies in the direct operation at the point of data generation to allow real-time processing of IoT data for faster analysis of streaming data and improved industry automation. Meanwhile, Atos’ and Siemens’ software applications for IoT and Edge solutions
will together manage the data collection, computation and data analytics. The IEDC is available in different performance classes, from a wall box or a
single IT rack, up to a powerful turnkey-ready and scalable data centre container. The IEDC is ideal for companies that have already started the process of
digital transformation, and therefore need to process large amounts of real- time data in smart production environments or other areas.
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be applied across a range of sectors, from smart retail to smart healthcare, as well as in smart cities and to facilitate the expansion of 5G mobile networks by processing data right at the base of the mobile station. Andreas Keiger,
executive vice president, Business Unit IT, Rittal, commented: “The realisation of the digital transformation requires a broad expertise across different competencies. Only a team of competent technology leaders is capable of developing a truly intelligent and plug-and-play-ready Edge Data Centre solution that enables the rapid development of new IT infrastructures.”
www.rittal.com August 2019 Instrumentation Monthly
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