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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Functional machine safety using discrete wiring is an established way to protect workers from injury, and protect companies from the expense associated with accidents and downtime.
Application Briefs: Communications
Telemetry, tracking, and command services ITT Corporation White Plains, NY 914-641-2000 www.itt.com
ITT Corporation has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Surface and roundness measurement systems Taylor Hobson West Chicago, IL 630-621-3099 www.taylor-hobson.com
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama is using the...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Echo Hill Automation Inc., a Beamsville, Ontario, Canada company founded by mechanical engineers and brothers Dan and Harry Schellenberg, has grown from a small two-man operation to...
Eye on Innovation: Software
When it comes to testing products for long-term durability, shock exposure survival, or accelerated life testing, the classic technique most engineers turn to is vibration testing with a shaker table....
Products: Electronics & Computers
Pentek, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has introduced the Model 7153 digital down converter (DDC), a four-channel, high-speed digitizer PMC module designed for processing baseband RF or IF signals from a...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Diamond Systems Corporation (Mountain View, CA) offers the Helios PC/104 form factor single board computer that utilizes DMP Vortex - 86SX/DX single chip processors operating at up to 800MHz. Helios is compact,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced version 9.0 of the Agilent VEE graphical programming software for test and measurement. Enhancements improve execution time, reduce programming...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The XTend4010 3U hybrid backplane from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) (Middleton, WI) supports four VPX slots, three CompactPCI peripheral slots, a Gigabit Ethernet switch slot, and a fabric/bridge...
Products: Electronics & Computers
APEM Components, Inc. (Haver - hill, MA) offers an environmentally sealed toggle switch that functions as a rotary or rocker switch. The MT series switch is activated using a slight rocking motion by an operator’s finger or...
Products: Electronics & Computers
that features four small form-factor pluggable-plus (SFP/SFP+) transceivers enabling support of virtually any serial communication standard, including Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, CPRI, and OBSAI....
Products: Electronics & Computers
Murata Power Solutions (Mansfield, MA) has introduced three new PICMG 2.11-compliant CompactPCI high reliability power supplies. The cPCI-A-3U-300C, cPCIA-3U 200C AC/DC power supplies, and the cPCI-D-3U-300C DC/DC...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Austin Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, TX) now offers a 512Mb, 54-Pin TSOPII SDRAM with copper lead frame. The TSOPII features a Lead on Chip (LOC) design, which allows the size of the package to be approximately the chip...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The CVCO55CC-4267-4442 VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) from Crystek (Fort Myers, FL) operates from 4267 MHz to 4442 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.1V-16V. The VCO features a typical phase noise of...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The Duralco 125 handheld epoxy applicator from Cotronics (Brooklyn, NY) dispenses electrically conductive, flexible epoxy for continuous use to 400°F. The epoxy applicator is deal for manufacturing and...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Themis Computer® (Fremont, CA) has introduced high-performance 1RU servers for mission-critical applications. The 1RU Rugged Enterprise Servers (RES) have Intel Xeon 64-bit quad-core processors. The new RES-12DCX2.5™ servers...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Keithley Instruments, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) has expanded its SignalMeister™ software platform to include RF signal analysis along with RF signal generation. SignalMeister software integrates signal...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Although a few industrial backplane architectures are already geared for rugged Mil/Aero applications, some design considerations are often required when designing rugged COTS products.
What is...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Pepperl+Fuchs, Twinsburg, OH, has introduced the ML7 Background Suppression (BGS) photoelectric sensors that feature a 31 x 11 x 23 mm housing, and a sensing range of up to 350 mm. Background suppression optimizes the detection...
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View these and other new products on display by exhibitors at Photonics West, January 27-29, in San Jose, CA. Visit Photonics Tech Briefs at Booth 832.Visit http://spie.org/x23685.xml for more information.
Articles: Software
Five years ago, we asked executives at leading CAD companies if, in five years, most design engineers would be using 3D design tools rather than 2D, and all of them said yes. Yet, there are still barriers that...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The new SUMIT specification is managed by the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG). SFF-SIG is a newly formed, non-profit industry group that develops, promotes, and supports small form...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Whether you are involved in robotics or other domains, pattern recognition is essential to progress. A new device, called the CogniMem chip, offers a hardware solution to this problem. CogniMem...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
For decades military platforms have included electronics for avionics, vehicle controls, radios, radar, sonar and fire control. From a computational standpoint most of these systems could be accomplished with...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Laser micromachining involves using light to remove material. Lasers can also be used in many other applications such as welding, marking, additive manufacturing and surface alteration, but these fall outside the...
Who's Who: Aerospace
As Director of NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. controls an annual budget of approximately $650 million and...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) products that incorporate LEDs pose many measurement challenges compared with other lighting elements, such as traditional tungsten...
Tech Needs
Technology for Improved Performance of Release Agents in Die Casting
A materials company supplying specialty technical products to the foundry industry is seeking technology to allow a stepchange in performance of release agents/die lubricants for high-pressure die casting of non-ferrous (e.g. aluminium) components. Areas of interest include...
Tech Needs
In-Store Hair Analysis Tools
A company is seeking tools and devices that can be used instore to quickly classify hair types based on measured hair properties like hair thickness and/or damage level. Technologies include hair diagnostic devices/tools that can evaluate at least one of the following parameters: structure information; physical...
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INSIDER: Software
Aya Durbin of Boston Dynamics on Why Humanoids Are the Future of...
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NVIDIA Announces Industry’s First Full-Stack Safety System for Physical...
Articles: Manned Systems
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NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027
Podcasts: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Quiz: Manned Systems
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How Motors, Drives, and Sensors are Advancing Humanoid Robots
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From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power...
Summits: Automotive
Hydrogen & Alternative Fuels Summit 2026
Webinars: Transportation
Engineering Extended-Range Hybrid Systems
Editorial Webinars: Medical
Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller,...
Webinars: AR/AI
