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New Zealand Engineering 1998 October marketplace
 Dallas
Semiconductor has announced a single chip that monitor battery parameters
and stores pertinent data for battery identification and charge control.
Integrating a 10-bit voltage A/D converter, temperature-sensing circuitry,
and non-volatile memory, the DS2436 Battery Identification/Monitor Chip
is designed for use as a data-acquisition system for batteries. It
combines the temperature-sensing and non-volatile data storage functions
of the DS2433 and the battery-identification capabilities of the DS2401.
Web site: www.dalsemi.com.
Scott Technology of Dunedin has devised a way to manufacture whiteware cabinets to highly precise tolerances to meet exacting TQM (Total Quality Management) demands. It has earned a multi-million dollar deal to supply a US whiteware company with a high-tech, automated, roll-forming process that is being installed on a refrigerator production line. Funding for engineering development was received from Technology NZ. Phone 0-3-477 0975. TECO electric motors continue to be available despite the recent closure of TECO NZ Ltd. Engineering company IPSCO Ltd now has the exclusive agency for TECO motors in NZ and will market them alongside their own products. Key electric motor specialists from TECO (Phil Rhoades and Doug Cresswell) have transferred to the IPSCO team, into a newly formed electric motor division. IPSCO has not taken on the TECO air conditioner or computer product agencies. Email: gerald@ipsco.co.nz Plant maintenance in NZ is set to be transformed with the establishment of Silcar NZ - a joint venture between NZ contracting company Electrix Ltd and Australian operation Silcar Maintenance Services. The joint venture hopes to take advantage of the recent round of electricity reforms in NZ power and generation companies, and major industrial companies have expressed strong interest in the possibility of contracting out all their maintenance services. Phone 0-9-270 1700 An international manufacturer has invested $2.5m in its high-technology production facility in Auckland to manufacture advanced ceramic components for industry. Minister of Science and Technology, Maurice Williamson, opened Pyrotek Products' new facility on 14 August. Pyrotek's headquarters are in the US with 55 branches around the world. It specialises in products for the metals melting and casting industries. Pyrotek NZ's operation is expected to grow to a NZ$6m turnover in the next five years. The ceramic products are made of sialon (silicon, aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen) which is harder and tougher than traditional ceramics. Ninety-five percent of the NZ production will be exported. Phone 0-9-274 4415.
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