“A solution looking for a problem” is too often the way new products and technologies reach the market. How creative could a company be if they knew in advance what customers really wanted and invented products to meet those needs? Richard Bull describes his company’s strategy to do just that.
In the creation of a high vacuum, oil-free membrane units act as auxiliary backing or ‘roughing’ pumps, while turbo molecular pumps perform the final compression.
A novel oil drilling tool, currently under development at SINTEF Petroleum Research in Norway, has characteristics that will enable it to take on a number of different tasks.
Kalrez Spectrum perfluoroelastomer O-rings from the DuPont Performance Elastomers range have been successfully used to minimise the risk of premature seals failure, as well as increasing MTBF and significantly reducing the incidence of downtime for hydraulic clamping systems.
Seal replacementIn the face of continually increasing pressure to keep manufacturing costs low in the face of both stiff competition and challenging economic times, equipment operators may choose to replace individual components rather than the complete cylinder.