engineering and manufacturing sectors. overview engineering and manufacturing can be broken down...

Engineering and Manufacturing Sectors


Overview

Engineering and Manufacturing can be broken down into several different sectors.

There are many different careers on offer for people of all interests, backgrounds and abilities.


Mechanical Engineering

Products or Services

Bearings, agricultural machinery, gas turbines, machine tools.

Companies

RHP, GKN and Rolls-Royce.

Source: www.ronlund.com/images/ bearings.jpg


Engineering Fabrication


Building frames, food handling equipment, metal climbing frames, liquid handling equipment and lorry chassis.

Companies

Watson’s Steel


Automotive Engineering

Products or ServicesCars, commercial vehicles (lorries and vans), motorcycles, tractors and specialized.

Companies Rover, Vauxhall UK and McLaren.

Source: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=55931


Electrical and Electronic

Products or ServicesElectric generators and motors, consumer electronic equipment (radio, TV, audio and video) power cables, computers.

Companies GEC, BICC and ICL.



Process Control


"Process control" refers to the equipment and methods used to automatically measure and manipulate the conditions of continuous and batch processes.

Companies

Alan Bradley, Siemens, Festo, Norgren.

Source: http://www.rotech.se/images/assembly.jpg


Telecommunications


Telephone, radio and data communications equipment.

Companies

Nokia, GEC, Plessey and British Telecom.



Civil Engineering


Concrete bridges and flyovers, docks, factories, power stations, dams.

Companies

Bovis, Wimpey and Balfour-Beatty.



Aerospace Engineering


Passenger and military aircraft, satellites, space vehicles, missiles.

Companies

British Aerospace, Westland and Rolls-Royce.

Source:http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=50655


Marine Engineering


Oil, gas and mineral exploration, platforms and pipelines. Diving equipment. Seacraft such as cruise liners, naval vessels and container ships.

Companies

Harland – Wolff, Hyundai, Statoil, British Petroleum.

Source: Statoil


Environmental Engineering

Source: http://www.coruseducation.com/galleryenvironment.asp

Products or ServicesWind turbines, solar cells and panels, tidal power stations.

Companies

Jeffrey Stevens Associates, Howick Consultants, Carter Environmental Engineers Ltd, Halcrow Group Ltd


Food and Drink


Food products, carbonated soft drinks and modified ingredients.

Companies

Cadburys, Schweppes, United Diaries and Park Cakes.

Source:http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=55095


Biological and Chemical


Fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, plastics, petrol.

Companies

Fisons, Glaxo, ICI and British Petroleum.



Printing and Publishing


Products or ServicesBooks, comics, mail order catalogues, newspapers and magazines.

Companies

Malvern Press, Oxford University Press, Penguin.


Paper and Board

Source: http://pragerpackaging.home.att.net/

Products or ServicesPackaging, such as corrugated boxes, folding boxes, beverage cartons. Hygiene and household products, office paper and stationery, wallpaper and bookbinding.

Companies Tetra Pak


Textiles and Clothing


Products or ServicesClothes, shoes, home furnishings, fabrics, yarns and industrial textiles.

Companies

Nike, Adidas, Laura Ashley.

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