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Smart Fixed Flange Bearings

igus®, East Providence, RI, has developed intelligent two- and four-hole fixed flange bearings with wireless sensing capabilities for wear detection, enabling condition monitoring and preventing costly machine breakdowns. They feature an integrated abrasion sensor, thin circuit board and cableless battery supply. Users can see the remaining service life and maintenance requirements via a web-based dashboard, which they can access from a PC, tablet, or smartphone.

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3D Fixture-Modelling Software

FixtureBuilder 3D fixture-modelling software from Renishaw, West Dundee, IL, allows quick creation and documentation of advanced CAD-based metrology fixturing set-ups for repeatable and productive part inspection. Full CAD compatibility, custom libraries, and a “Build It” function that automates setups and simplifies purchasing of components. The user-friendly software allows quick creation and documentation of advanced CAD-based metrology fixturing setups.

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Pulsed Light Research System

XENON Corporation, Wilmington, MA, has introduced the X-1100/2x Pulsed Light Research System, an upgrade to its X-1100 system. The XENON X-1100 has been an instrumental tool for scientists, engineers, and researchers looking to define processes, optimize solutions and identify new applications for pulsed xenon light (PX-UV). With its increased power, the X-1100/2x provides 7.8 Joules/cm² of radiant energy/pulse.

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Ultra-Low Loss Power Inductor

Coilcraft, Cary, IL, is offering the XGL3014 series of low DC and AC loss inductors for a wide range of DC-DC converters. Inductance range is from 0.082 to 1.8 μH, current ratings are up to 16.1 amps with soft saturation. They have a 3 × 3 mm footprint and are 1.4 mm tall. Rated at 80 volts, they are suitable for wide Vin DC-DC converters.

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X-Ray Inspection System

Rad Source NDT, Buford, GA, announces the arrival of its latest innovation: the NDT 1000 X-ray Inspection System. It has superior inspection capabilities, handling materials with thicknesses of up to 0.5", including robust materials like steel. The NDT 1000 can swiftly inspect steel piping, welds, and materials up to 0.5" thick in a second. With an imaging speed of 24 frames per second (fps), it ensures rapid and accurate results.

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Laser Distance Sensors for Outdoor Use

The optoNCDT ILR1171-125 laser distance sensor from Micro-Epsilon, Ortenburg, Germany, designed for outdoor use, measures 20 × faster than its predecessor. Due to the laser time-of-flight principle with infrared light and a measuring rate of up to 40 kHz, high energy pulses are achieved, allowing stable measurements with very good signal quality. Even in poor visibility conditions such as fog and rain, the sensor offers high accuracy. The resistance to ambient light is 50,000 lux.

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3D Mapping Software

Exwayz, Paris, France, is unveiling Exwayz 3D Mapping, its all-in-one software capable of creating city-scale 3D point clouds of outdoor areas in world coordinates. Plug and play, this powerful software can work with any LiDAR and GNSS system on the market and creates centimeter-accurate georeferenced maps of cities, industrial sites, ports, and any other outdoor areas. It has precision levels to the nearest centimeter.

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Automotive Antenna

KYOCERA AVX, Fountain Inn, SC, has released the new A-Series low-profile, surface-mount automotive antennas. They are qualified according to AEC-Q200 standards and offer a wide range of AEC-Q200-compliant antennas for automotive applications, including wireless battery management systems, telematics control units, and vehicle access key fobs. They support a wide range of wireless technologies — including GNSS L1/L2/L5/L6, ISM, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth, cellular, LTE, 5G, and UWB — and offer frequencies extending from 617 MHz to 8.5 GHz.

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Custom LIDAR Optics

A wide range of LIDAR optics that can be custom fabricated to match specific military and commercial application requirements has been introduced by Meller Optics, Inc. of Providence, RI. They can be made from germanium, sapphire, silicon, UV glass, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide, and other materials to match specific transmission requirements from the UV to IR. They can be fabricated as lenses, windows, and mirrors in plano-concave, concave, meniscus shapes, and as prisms.

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Automotive Image Sensor

OMNIVISION, Santa Clara, CA, announced its new 1.3-megapixel OX01J image sensor for automotive 360-degree surround-view systems (SVS) and rear-view cameras (RVC). The OX01J is a raw image sensor with top-of-the-line LED flicker mitigation (LFM) and 140 dB high dynamic range (HDR). Availability of the OX01J provides automotive OEMs with the flexibility to purchase just the image sensor if they already have their own backend image signal processor (ISP) architecture.

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Control System

Emerson, Austin, TX, is building upon the technologies and solutions in the DeltaV™ distributed control system (DCS) with the release of DeltaV Version 15 Feature Pack 1. This feature pack release includes new technology and enhancements to current capabilities that not only improve control system situational awareness and performance, but also help ensure more efficient, sustainable operations.

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