ABB Industrial systems

ABB Industrial systems

WEB REVIEW Azerbaijan, and there isn’t a red hyperlink dot in your locality how do you know who your local dis tributor is? Here, SFS instead menus ...

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Azerbaijan, and there isn’t a red hyperlink dot in your locality how do you know who your local dis tributor is? Here, SFS instead menus almost every country in the world, and a single click reveals the distributor with your territory in his brief. Product detail on this site is cursory to be honest, but SFS does say that more elaborate info is imminent. Otherwise it’s a faultless presentation so far, but the real test lies ahead, in how those unruly product shots, figures and data are eventually delivered.

www.sterlingfluidsystems.com

Weir lated using official exchange rates and official rounding adjustments. The literature page also looks promising, if underfed, but its availability in German only, means many of us will be pasting paragraphs into AltaVista’s translation service.

www.lewa.de

This newly overhauled homepage suggests a rethink by the formerly Internet-wary Weir Group. Perhaps the Web is working out for them after all. Weir has long professed itself untempted by the tight profit margins in mainstream business, and here it is from the mouth of chairman Lord Weir himself, “Our objective is to concentrate

Sterling Fluid Systems Sterling Fluid Systems is to be applauded for giving us a license at last to waste some company time, while ostensibly learning something useful. This homepage combines pump education &$,W3& > with entertainment on the Web with the first known point’n’click component assembly game. In short, the assignment simulates *0nt, that common domestic chore, building a pump from scratch before you drown in your own basement. Repeated resuscitation was necessary before the sequence was cracked in this office, but this could be a handy tool for evaluating your colleagues’ usefulness in a crisis. Those click-on-a-region dealership maps have been praised here before, but if you live in, say,

ourselves in specialist niches in the market where the mastery of more difficult technology - be it in manufacturing techniques or design - can give us a competitive edge internationally” The revamp merits a revisit, but remains disappointingly light on product detail.

www.weir.co.uk

ABB Industrial Systems ABB seems here to have gained an edge on its rivals, claiming to have delivered the UK’s first online network of variable speed drives distributors via this website. It’s a comprehensive affair, allowing instant orders by E-mail, details of special regional offers and technical tips. Schematic diagrams attached to the application stories are a nice touch, making the usual inexplicable photo seem redundant by comparison.

www.abb.co.uk/drives

WORLD PUMPS

JULY 1998