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Articles: Aerospace
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
Articles: Automotive
Standards for Comfortable Seats
In the beginning, safety trumped comfort in spacecraft designs for human space travel. Early space capsules were small and had a seat-driven design in which most of the flight...
Articles: Aerospace
NASA Technology
Idaho is a nature-lover’s dream. Forests there blanket swaths of terrain, from the glassy lake regions of the northern Panhandle to the famous trout-fishing streams of the...
Articles: Motion Control
A collaborative robot is essentially an industrial robot with additional safety capabilities. These safety features include:
Safety-rated monitored stop (zero speed limiting)
Speed and...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The ongoing challenge for today’s semiconductor test engineers is to identify and create new test solutions that can offer significantly lower test costs as well as address the...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Coupling-Decoupling Networks (CDNs) are the unglamorous workhorses that get “hitched up” to an impulse generator in order to perform impulse testing on powered equipment. As...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The seconds to minutes of advance warning of an earthquake can allow people and systems to take actions to protect life and property from destructive shaking. Earthquake early warning...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
Articles: Aerospace
The SAE 2016 World Congress, presented by SAE International and taking place April 12-14 in Detroit, will gather experts, management teams, engineers, and executives from the automotive industry...
Articles: Aerospace
We asked executives to offer perspectives on milestones in their industry or technology area that occurred during the past 40 years. Did their industry exist 40 years ago, and if not, what...
Articles: Data Acquisition
GRANT MALOY SMITH President and CEO Dewetron, Inc. Wakefield, RI www.dewamerica.com
In 40 years, data acquisition products have evolved from paper-based chart recorders and analog tape...
Articles: Information Technology
ALEX IUORIO Senior Vice President, Supplier Management and Business Development Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Phoenix, AZ www.em.avnet.com
In a 1926 interview, inventor Nikola Tesla stated:...
Articles: Aerospace
CHETAN KAPOOR Senior Director of Technology Innovation Yaskawa America, Motoman Robotics Division Miamisburg, OH www.motoman.com
Programmable machines are increasingly joining the ranks of the workforce....
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
JIM LAWTON Chief Product and Marketing Officer Rethink Robotics Boston, MA www.rethinkrobotics.com
In 1961, Unimate — the first large-scale industrial robot — transformed the assembly lines at General...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
As the optical fiber and cable industry unfolded, several terms were coined to describe specific properties that were new and different from conventional wire processing. One...
Articles: Aerospace
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In 2007, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a call for a sensor that could equip a smartphone with the ability to detect dangerous gases and chemicals, NASA Ames...
Articles: Aerospace
DOMINIC GALLELLO President and CEO MSC Software Corporation Newport Beach, CA www.mscsoftware.com
The foundation stones of CAE were laid in the 1960s during the race for space. Because of the obvious defense...
Articles: Aerospace
SVANTE LITTMARCK President and CEO COMSOL, Inc. Burlington, MA www.comsol.com
With the birth some 50 years ago of computers based on integrated circuits and semiconductors, engineers had a tool that could...
Articles: Test & Measurement
DR. JAMES TRUCHARD President, CEO, and Co-Founder National Instruments Austin, TX www.ni.com
The world of technology has moved to software — it started in the PC industry, but quickly manifested in...
Articles: Software
JON HIRSCHTICK Founder and Chairman of the Board Onshape Cambridge, MA www.onshape.com
Over the past four decades, I’ve watched CAD grow to become a vital part of the way virtually all products are designed...
Articles: Test & Measurement
JAY ALEXANDER Chief Technology Officer Keysight Technologies, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA www.keysight.com
To travel back 40 years in test and measurement, I reached for the paper equivalent of Doc Brown’s...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Methane often appears in the atmosphere at an irregular rate, puzzling researchers challenged with the task of tracking the gas’s sources in the landscape. An advanced infrared camera...
Articles: Aerospace
“The sky could become increasingly crowded as personal and commercial uses of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) become more popular,” said Parimal Kopardekar, manager of NASA’s Safe Autonomous Systems...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Energy savings are an extremely important topic in virtually every segment of industry today. In general, the largest consumer of power in a converting line or machine is the drive system. As energy...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA Technologist Mahmooda Sultana has been leading the development of tiny graphene sensors. Because of the material’s extreme sensitivity, graphene-based sensors have a wide range of possible...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The romantic notion of grizzled ranchers out riding the range on horseback to shepherd their herd of cattle may soon be a distant memory, as cloud-based sensor technology now permits real-time...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Innovations in communications and computing hardware and software have made it easier than ever to collect minute details regarding just about any topic of interest. For technology and...
Articles: Aerospace
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
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