Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) announced that it will build a $128 million engineering and manufacturing center near Cincinnati, Ohio. PCC, an Oregon-based manufacturer of industrial components serving the aerospace, power and other major industrial sectors, says the new center will be built on an R&D campus in Mason, Ohio. The project is expected to create 190 new jobs. The new facility will house an R&D center for aerostructures and support manufacturing for the company’s SPS Technologies subsidiary.

Part I of this article considered the technology of measuring temperature through the infrared radiation of a heated metal mass and some of the misconceptions and inaccuracies that may be present in or about the process. This article will explore ways to improve accuracy through proper calibration and to take temperature measurements of highly reflective bodies.

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Why this hunger to add an Ethernet port/WiFi or 3G/4G functionality to any device? Well, a so-called dumb instrument can be now transformed into something much smarter.

The desired metallurgical properties of forgings are derived from having the right billet temperature when they are forged.

Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private-equity firm, acquired Firth Rixson Forgings Ltd. from Arconic. Going forward, the business will operate as part of Forged Solutions Group, which was formed in November 2019 by Arlington Capital as its aerospace forging platform. Located in Sheffield, United Kingdom, Firth Rixson provides complex closed-die forgings and forged discs and proprietary forward-and-backward extrusion-produced shafts and cylinders primarily for OEM and Tier 1 aerospace and defense engine customers.

Data loggers are devices that collect data by taking physical or electrical readings from external or internal sensors over an extended period.

Premade, self-adhesive pipe marking labels can help facility managers quickly label pipes or systems in line with common ANSI/ASME A13.1 and IIAR standards.

The company significantly expanded its line of benchtop hardness testers, adding seven Rockwell systems, eight Vickers systems and one Brinell systems.

Model TMB 8150 STRETCH automatic top-load parts washer is nearly twice as wide as the standard TMB 8100 model (82.5 vs. 55 inches) for a wider wash zone, and it features dual 5-HP heavy-duty wash-cycle pumps and 170-gallon sump capacity.