Oil and gas companies use practically the same turbines to generate electricity or to provide mechanical drive for compressors and pumps.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
Electrical contacts made through the holes in the strip would drive electro-mechanical counters.
And without any grand programme, Mr Smith is also cutting the number of basic car platforms (the chassis and drive-train mechanical bits that make the wheels go round) from 16 to eight, in line with best practice at firms such as Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota.
Electrical drive trains are displacing mechanical ones in factories, ships, hybrid cars and all the other heavy-lifting sectors of the economy.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers, such as Maxtor.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers like Maxtor.
Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.
In pre-production testing of the Modbook Pro, Modbook Inc. found that solid-state drive options offered a number of clear advantages over mechanical drives.
ENGADGET: Modbook Pro to launch with SSD storage, up for pre-order October 3rd
What was once chemical and mechanical is now electronic and computer-rendered: a series of JPEGs being riffled through a drive.
The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine (the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension).
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