Materials & Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Explore innovations supporting advances in manufacturing and rapid prototyping. Access the developments and solutions that have an impact on applications in 3D printing and automation.

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Products: Imaging
Bitplane (Belfast, Northern Ireland) announced that its proprietary IMS file format would become Open Source. The IMS file format is based on Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5), which is designed to work with huge...
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Products: Imaging
The McPherson (Chelmsford, MA) Spectral Test Station (STS) is for wavelength testing and calibration from LWIR to 200 nanometers and less. It is for sensor testing, process control, and calibration.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
JAI (Glostrup, Denmark/San Jose, CA) has expanded its Spark Series of industrial area-scan cameras with two new models: Spark SP-12000C-CXP4 and Spark SP- 12000M-CXP4 (color camera and monochrome camera, respectively).
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Dewetron, Wakefield, RI, announced the TRIONet compact data acquisition system that accepts any two of the company’s multi-channel TRION series plug-in modules. The system connects to any Windows computer via USB 3.0 (or...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Formulated for potting, encapsulation, bonding, and sealing applications, Master Bond EP17HT-100 from Master Bond, Hackensack, NJ, is a single-part epoxy system designed to cure in 60-90 minutes at 200-220 °F. The...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
DELO, Windach, Germany, offers three flexible acrylate-based sealants that can withstand temperatures up to 150 °C, and reach final strength within seconds of curing. DELO-PHOTOBOND GE4009 is a purely light-curing...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ceramabond™ 571 high-temperature magnesium oxide-based ceramic adhesive from Aremco Products, Valley Cottage, NY, bonds thermocouples to high-temperature molybdenum-rhenium heater tubes for applications to 1760 ºC. The...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Epoxyset, Lincoln, RI, introduced SetWorx 60 toughened epoxy for high bond strength even at elevated temperatures. It provides electrical insulating properties for electronic applications. SetWorx 60 produces bonds to...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Henkel Corporation, Rocky Hill, CT, introduced LOCTITE GC 3W water-washable solder paste with temperature stability at 26.5 °C for six months, and at 40 °C for one month. The material offers stencil life of more than eight hours,...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bond-IT 7050 activated epoxies from Cotronics Corp., Brooklyn, NY, adhere to most plastic surfaces, and bond combinations of dissimilar materials such as metals, ceramics, plastic, and glass. The adhesive is mixed,...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The OMEGA® PX51-IS/PXM51-IS Series of intrinsically safe pressure transmitters from OMEGA Engineering, Stamford, CT, is designed, tested, and FM-certified for hazardous locations. They offer an all stainless steel...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
DTS, Seal Beach, CA, has introduced the TSR 6DXC shock recorder that incorporates built-in sensors in a small, rugged system for high shock and vibration data collection. The self-powered system can capture up to 2,000 transient...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
OriginLab, Northampton, MA, released Origin® and OriginPro 2016 data analysis and graphing software that features Apps in Origin to add specific graphing and analysis functionality, a Color Chooser, Smart Plotting with...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Gleeble Welding Simulator from Dynamic Systems, Poestenkill, NY, provides a complete platform for welding simulations and testing capabilities, including weld HAZ simulation, crack susceptibility, and nil-strength...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
OKW Enclosures, Bridgeville, PA, offers PACONNECT compact plastic enclosures for wired applications. The cases are offered in three sizes and consist of two case shells that are snapped together. Either end can be fitted with...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Avnet, Phoenix, AZ, released the ONIXVU440 flexible platform based on the Xilinx Virtex® UltraScaleTM XCVU440 FPGA. The board is designed for rapid prototyping and ASIC emulation of high-performance, highcomplexity...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Spring Connectors
Harwin, Salem, NH, offers Spring Contact Connectors including extended C and Positive Stop models in nine heights that maintain a positive force against a mating surface. They are available in different widths for a choice of spring contact forces, and offer “positive stop” to prevent damage caused by over-compression. They...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made flexible, transparent electrical conductors with record-high...
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Engineers at The Ohio State University have developed a new welding technique that consumes 80 percent less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50 percent stronger....
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process, like that used to print newspapers, could open up a...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA, introduced series E36100 compact DC power supplies that offer LAN and USB interfaces and reliable power for testing and validating designs. Five models feature up to 100 V or 5 A...
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Products: Imaging
ARM-based Z series Smart Cameras from Vision Components (Ettlingen, Germany/ Hudson, NH) are now available with HALCON Embedded software. The software features an integrated development environment and a comprehensive library...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Imaging Source (Charlotte, NC) has announced new industrial cameras equipped with the Sony Full HD WDR Sensor IMX174. The cameras are available as GigE (PoE) and USB 3 versions in monochrome and color. At full HD, the devices...
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Products: Imaging
The Transcoder Gateway from Pleora Technologies (Kanata, ON, Canada) transmits GigE Vision and USB3 Vision video to any playback device, including tablets and smartphones. While preserving the high-quality video required...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Basler (Ahrensburg, Germany/Exton, PA) has released the Basler pulse. Weighing 60 g and measuring 38.8 × 28.2 mm (diameter × length), the camera is available with either global or rolling shutter CMOS sensors, resolutions of up...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
TECHSPEC® Imaging Filters from Edmund Optic® (Barrington, NJ) pass or block specific UV, visible, or IR wavelengths and provide wide angles of incidence. Optimized for use with popular LEDs, the RoHS-compliant filters feature...
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Products: Imaging
Vision Research (Wayne, NJ) has updated its UHS-Series line of 1-megapixel (1Mpx) cameras. The Phantom v2512, v2012, v1612, and v1212 cameras are now available with either 72GB, 144GB, or 288GB of memory. Vision Research’s...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new Model 346 non-browning lens from Resolve Optics Ltd. (Chesham, UK) operates with color sensors in areas subject to radiation. The lens uses special glass that withstands long-term exposure to radiation up to a dose...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, ON, Canada) has expanded its Linea™ line scan cameras to include a new 8k GigE Vision model. The Linea 8k uses Teledyne DALSA’s CMOS sensor with 7.04 × 7.04 μm pixel size. The camera achieves a...
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