New Zealand Engineering 1998 June

Horizon Consultants of Auckland has launched a new Internet service, the horizonsparesfinder.com, which quickly finds engineering spare parts worldwide. It automatically links to the stockholding information held on the databases of manufacturers, suppliers and other industrial facilities worldwide. Phone 0-9-489 8442.

Algor of Pittsburgh has two new releases: a material data management system with a general database that contains properties for common materials such as steel, concrete and aluminium with the option of adding other material types; and it has extended its CAD-to-FEA solid model meshing capabilities to promote more efficient mesh refinement and more accurate FEA results. Email info@algor.com.

Andersen Enterprises of Cambridge has developed the ANDY-TEK machine management/monitoring system. The Windows95 based software interrogates a control unit attached to a machine and data logs the events as they happen. It is said to improve production meetings by providing current real time data. Email perdoris@voyager.co.nz

E-Z-GO battery-powered industrial vehicles are bring used at the Fisher & Paykel factory in East Tamaki to transport stock from the dispatch area to the production lines. Phone Golf Imports 0-9-298 2345.

Maud, Kirk Machinery Ltd has introduced the Rex MagneLink Coupling, which allows torque to be transmitted through air without any physical connection between the driving and driven shafts. Transfer of vibration, noise and impact loads is eliminated. Phone 0-4-566 6129.