Keyword: Reliability

Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have developed a method of imprinting a hidden magnetic tag, encoded with authentication information, within manufactured hardware during the part fabrication process.
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Briefs: Design
Innovators from the NASA Glenn Research Center developed a software-based automated RFI mitigation system to increase communication reliability.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The new system learns directly from visual inputs to let a robot with a two-fingered gripper see, simulate, and shape doughy objects.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
To open the Moon to continuous multi-year human and robotic operation, Astrobotic is developing LunaGrid™ — a commercial power system for the surface of the Moon.
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Q&A: Power
Ben Ollis and a team of engineers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory are creating a novel orchestrator tool to manage a cluster of microgrids so they can directly support and communicate with each other, making them more resilient during long power outages. It is being installed as a demonstration project in the small town of Adjuntas in the Central Mountains of Puerto Rico.
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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Existing infrastructure still relies on many electrical signal processing components embedded inside fiber optic networks.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
How Ada enables LASP to constantly modify OASIS-CC to control new instruments and ensure mission-critical systems remain reliable.
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Articles: Unmanned Systems
Thanos Yiagopoulos, Chief Technology Officer of Momentive Performance Materials, discusses how engineers can determine the best product for their application.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers

Where the ability to detect mid-wave infrared (MWIR) radiation is mission critical, readiness and the importance of long, maintenance-free infrared (IR) system operation is vital. In...

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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This scalable power processing unit (PPU) is for use with low-power Hall effect thrusters.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
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Technology Leaders: Energy
To ensure the availability of a UPS system, proper consideration must be taken of each application and its requirements.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Learn about a membrane-free, broadband microphone for the highest ultrasound frequencies.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
MEMS sensors have been around for a long time, but requests from the market for new applications are driving upgrades in the technology.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
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Articles: Motion Control
When specifying servo motors for applications like a new machine or CNC retrofit, there are many considerations regarding servo motor performance and sizing.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
As ICs continue to become smaller and chip complexity increases, manufacturers still need to ensure reliability to their customers.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The network is designed for remote, low-resource locations where power and communications infrastructure are scarce.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Future robots could be taught how to outperform humans.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
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Briefs: Motion Control

The Solenoid Valve Health Monitor System (SVHMS) was developed to remotely monitor the health of solenoid valves, lowering operational costs and increasing reliability by predicting valve failures before they...

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Briefs: Software
This program generates a mesh that conforms to a complex model without clipping.
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Briefs: Materials
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
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Facility Focus: Communications

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory — with sites in Anchorage, AK; Albany, OR; Morgantown, WV; and Pittsburgh, PA...

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Researchers have created technology that is 10 times more reliable than current methods of producing unclonable digital fingerprints that can be used to...

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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs

Researchers have developed a hybrid transformer that has the benefit of a full planar transformer design but uses a wire-wound secondary winding to keep the parasitic winding capacitances lower. Alone, planar transformers...

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Briefs: Motion Control
Improved Directed Flux Motor

Electromagnetic motors typically convert electrical energy into rotational mechanical energy and are employed across a wide array of applications. While motors represent relatively mature technology, practitioners continue to seek ways to enhance motor operation including a decrease in cost, drop in size/weight,...