Gears perform the critical functions of transmitting power or carrying motion in mechanical assemblies.

TASI Group, a privately owned business focused on test, measurement, inspection and assembly equipment, acquired ONICON Measurement Solutions. All ONICON Measurement Solutions business units (ONICON, Air Monitor, Fox Thermal, Seametrics, Greyline and Pulsar Process Measurement) are included in the transaction. Fox Thermal provides a range of full-featured flow meters to industrial OEMs and end-user customers. The companies will become part of the existing TASI Flow Group of companies, which is comprised of AW-Lake Company, Exact Dispensing Systems, KEM GmbH, Litremeter, SignalFire Wireless Telemetry and Vogtlin Instruments. 

Despite its history and ubiquitous presence as an infrastructure material, steels remain a complex material system with many persisting research questions.

The AV450 Automatic Vision System allows users to cost-effectively achieve high throughput in their inspection process.

Dunkirk Specialty Steel LLC, a U.S. manufacturer of semi-finished and finished specialty steel products, installed a General Electric phased-array nondestructive testing (NDT) system as part of a $10 million capital investment from parent company Universal Stainless and Alloy Products. The company also installed a bar turn and burnish line as part of upgrades at its Dunkirk, N.Y., facility, which produces finished bar, rod and wire products in a variety of specialty steel grades. 

The Norton Pneumatic Die Grinder accomplishes a wide range of portable grinding applications without the need to change machines.

Having the right tools in our toolbox or knowing who to call and rely on makes any job go easier, faster and better.

The DiaMet hardness testing software upgrade is now available for legacy Wilson testers. DiaMet can integrate and transform legacy testers to improve quality management using the software’s database.

Tenaris will open a sucker-rods manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas, in July. The $70 million investment is equipped with advanced technologies to optimize efficiencies and reduce production times. The facility includes heat-treatment, threading and finishing processes; nondestructive testing (NDT); robotized forging lines; and a state-of-the-art quality testing lab. The mill also has an on-site training facility and classroom.

Registration is open for IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating online learning course, which begins on April 15. The course is ideal for students who wish to further their studies at home or work in a flexible web-based, distance-learning format. It’s an affordable alternative to campus-based classes and allows students to go at their own pace.