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Scientific Instruments specialist, Joyce‐Loebl Ltd. has produced new product literature on its high performance Disc Centrifuge.

Joyce‐Loebl's Alan Robinson, technical director, and Peter Hage, industrial systems manager, talk to Jack Hollingum about a low cost ‘vision engine’ for handling and assembly and a related Esprit project.

Film digitisers and writers allow quantitative information to be extracted from photographic material. One such digitiser is in Joyce Loebl's Scandig range.

This article is an edited extract from a new book ‘Image Analysis: Principles and Practice’ about to be published by Joyce Loebl, the image analysis equipment company.

Clive Loughlin looks at some of the systems available to industry, and analyses their strengths and weaknesses.

High failure rates worry everyone concerned with technical teaching and the qualified manpower problem — and they worry the potential failers too. Any advice on examination technique which teachers can pass on to their students can be of great help in getting them over these fateful first hurdles. Mr Loebl, who is Managing Director of three companies in the scientific instrument and computer field, was a part‐time lecturer at Rutherford for five years, and is responsible for some thirty‐five apprentices.

Image analysis software developed by Manchester University's Wolfson Image Analysis unit has contributed to a major successful application by one British company and is providing the foundation for another British company set up a few months ago.

This article gives an account of ESPRIT Project 278 which aimed to create a robot system guided by visual and tactile senses.

The latest data sheet from Vinyl Products describes their Vinamuls 3240 and 3250, which are pressure polymerised vinyl ace‐tate‐ethylene emulsions. Already available from the Carshalton factory, supplies will be further increased when the Warrington plant comes into operation.

The No. 1279–10 and 1266–10 models feature magnetic stirring with thermistor‐controlled heat. Hot‐plate surface temperature control through a built‐in thermistor or control of the temperature of the actual liquid with an immersion probe can now be achieved.