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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

In the general construction industry, many different parts are cut from sheet metal and then welded together on a large machine or vehicle. The trouble arises when the sheets are...

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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Nordson Asymtek, headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, provides automated fluid dispensing systems, which are used in the assembly and packaging of semiconductors, printed circuit boards, flat...

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Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Beam waveguide antennas
General Dynamics SATCOM
Technologies
Newton, NC
828-464-4141
www.gdsatcom.com

General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has...

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Application Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Single-frequency semiconductor laser
Redfern Integrated Optics (RIO)
Santa Clara, CA
408-970-3500
www.rio-inc.com

NASA has chosen Redfern Integrated Optics to...

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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics

The operator’s paradox for the past several years has been that while there is an explosion in data traffic volumes to the tune of 45-65% yearly, the corresponding revenue growth is in the single digits at best....

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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
New Shepard rocket-propelled vehicle Blue Origin
Kent, WA
253-872-0411 www.blueorigin.com

Blue Origin has received funding from NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev)...

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Application Briefs: Information Technology
Enterprise application and information technology services
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
McLean, VA
703-676-4300
www.saic.com

SAIC...

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Application Briefs: Information Technology
IT Services Support NASA Scientists and Engineers
Information technology services
DB Consulting Group
Silver Spring, MD
301-589-4020
www.dbconsultinggroup.com

DB Consulting Group provides NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH with a variety of professional, administrative, computational, and engineering...

Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Motion Components Optimize Performance of Liquid Chromatography System

Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, and environmental industries to make important breakthroughs faster...

Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

Endo Tools Therapeutics (ETT) is a medical device company based in Brussels, Belgium that was established in 2008. The company was formed after an innovative research...

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Application Briefs: Lighting

A Manchester, NH T.J.Maxx shopping plaza parking lot has been retrofitted with BetaLED luminaires. CBT Development of Greenland, NH was incurring high costs for parking lot maintenance from...

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Application Briefs: Lighting

The lighting needs at the 460,000-square foot headquarters facility of Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc., a food distributor serving customers in 35 states, were recently re-evaulated....

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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics

A wide range of commercial applications use cameras with a zooming mechanism. Perhaps the most ubiquitous is the camera phone. Camera phones may have an optical zoom, a...

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Application Briefs: Aerospace
Extra-Vehicular Activity Space Suit Simulator (S3)
Aurora Flight Sciences
Cambridge, MA
703-396-6304
www.aurora.aero

Aurora Flight Sciences has teamed up with...

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Application Briefs: Software
Engineering Review Board Information System (ERBIS)
a.i. solutions
Lanham, MD
301-306-1756
www.ai-solutions.com

Managing the people, data, and activities...

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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Food manufacturers are held to strict agency regulations regarding product quality and consistency. Repeatable visual inspections are critical to ensure consumers receive a consistent...

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Application Briefs: Motion Control

Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical,...

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Application Briefs: Imaging

Food manufacturers are held to strict agency regulations regarding product quality and consistency. Repeatable visual inspections are critical to ensure consumers receive a consistent...

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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers

The desire to consolidate datacenter I/O has existed for several decades. It has been driven by I/O hardware providers who didn’t want to develop multiple versions of the same I/O card for...

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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Eddy-current displacement sensors
Lion Precision
St. Paul, MN
651-484-6544
www.lionprecision.com

Stennis Space Center, NASA’s...

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Application Briefs: Information Technology
Ground system telecommunications architecture
General Dynamics C4 Systems
Falls Church, VA
480-441-3033
www.gd.com

As part of its seven-year contract with NASA...

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Application Briefs: Lighting
Philips Lumileds, San Jose, CA
National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA

Abridge lighting project was recently completed in the Chinese city of Harbin, utilizing 1,288 linear floodlights containing...

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Application Briefs: Lighting
Ocean LED, Nuneaton, UK
Proto Labs, Maple Plain, MN

Richard Sant, Chief Designer at OceanLED, sought a fast and flexible way to make low-cost, high-quality components for the firm’s latest LED...

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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics

To decode the human genome and gain a greater understanding of diseases and their aetiology, advances need to be made in the rate at which the nucleotides that comprise DNA can be...

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Application Briefs: Communications
The Communicator! NXT emergency
notification system
PlantCML, an EADS North America company
Franklin, TN
951-719-2423
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Application Briefs: Software
Geomagic Studio 3D scanning and processing software
Geomagic Inc.
Research Triangle Park, NC
800-691-1839
www.geomagic.com

Ceramic tiles...

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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

A unique cavitating pump dynamics test facility has been developed at Concepts NREC (CN, White River Junction, VT) in cooperation with engineers at NASA Marshall...

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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Systems engineering is not about developing electronics, mechanical, or software designs. Systems engineering is really about four things:

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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers

DC is not always DC. When systems are developed to operate on DC power, the DC electrical environment will have noise and may experience other disturbances. This article will explore considerations for generating low...

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