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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: 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: 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: Robotics, Automation & Control
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: Aerospace
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: 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: 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...
News: Electronics & Computers
When astronauts return to Earth in the Orion spacecraft, they will reenter on an extremely hot and fast journey through the atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. To protect...
News: Aerospace
40th Anniversary Reader Contest Winners
In the 1960s, the newly formed NASA began issuing single-sheet reports on the commercially significant technologies the agency was developing in the course of R&D being conducted for the space program – a mandate from Congress. In 1976, NASA turned those single-sheet reports into a magazine format...
Products: Aerospace
PEM® ReelFast® SMTPFLSM™ surfacemount, spring-loaded, captive panel screws from PennEngineering®, Danboro, PA, install permanently on printed circuit boards to provide secure attachment and allow for subsequent access...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Slated for launch in 2018, NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will carry a 3D-printed part made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), a material that has never been used...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter broke the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary when Juno was about 493 million miles from the Sun. Launched in 2011, Juno is the...
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 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: Aerospace
Since the early 1990s, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have operated on a limited basis in the National Airspace System (NAS). Until recently, UAS mainly supported public operations, such as military and border security...
Articles: Aerospace
Technology used to capture carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere can save brewers money.
Building on work he and his companies did with Johnson Space Center’s In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Comet software Comet Solutions Cincinnati, OH 513-588-2773 www.cometsolutions.com
A Structural-Thermal-Optical-Performance (STOP) analysis is an interdisciplinary analysis used to...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Apex SLR ICP etch system Advanced Vacuum, a Plasma-Therm Co. Saint Petersburg, FL 800-246-2592 www.plasmatherm.com
An Advanced Vacuum inductively coupled plasma etch system...
Products: Aerospace
MSC Software Corp., Newport Beach, CA, announced the release of Marc 2015 nonlinear and multiphysics simulation software. Enhancements include new material models to simulate complex dynamic behavior of elastomers,...
Products: Aerospace
North Atlantic Industries, Bohemia, NY, announced the VPX57- 31 3U rugged power product that provides up to 400 watts of power with six outputs. It is compliant with MIL-STD-704F, and features current share, remote error sensing,...
Products: Aerospace
Intepro Systems, Tustin, CA, introduced the ELR9000 Series of electronic DC loads that features an integral, grid-synchronized inverter designed to return up to 94% of the load test energy back to the grid. The rack-mounted unit...
Products: Aerospace
The ISL94203 3-to-8 cell battery pack monitor from Intersil Corp., Milpitas, CA, supports lithium-ion and other battery chemistries. The device monitors, protects, and cell-balances rechargeable battery packs to maximize battery...
Products: Aerospace
Littelfuse, Chicago, IL, offers the SPxx-01WTG-C-HV Series generalpurpose electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection TVS diode arrays (SPA® Diodes). The 0201-size components safeguard data lines on larger touchscreen modules used...
Products: Aerospace
Protek Power North America, Hudson, MA, introduced the PUB200/250/300/400 Series of AC/DC switching power supplies that delivers 200-400 Watts of continuous power at convection cooling. The units are housed in a perforated metal...
Products: Aerospace
TDK-Lambda Americas, National City, CA, announced the 12-Ampere iCH series of POL (Point of Load) non-isolated DC-DC converters. Accepting an input range of 4.5 to 14Vdc, the series can operate from either a 5Vdc or 12Vdc bus....
Products: Aerospace
OMEGA Engineering, Stamford, CT, offers the PLATINUM™ Series PT-DEMO PID controller that provides an integrated temperature control system suitable as a platform to investigate the use of closed loop (PID) and...
Products: Aerospace
OKW Enclosures, Bridgeville, PA, offers CONNECT enclosures for wired or USB electronics for applications where the unit is connected to a cable, sits between cables, or where the units are joined with USB connectors. The...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The RCP-DELTA robot and control system from Aerotech (Piitsburgh, PA) is available in four models that support payloads up to 3 kg, with X/Y operating ranges of 500/800/1100/1300 mm, and an optional continuous...
INSIDER: Motion Control
The automotive and aeronautic industries often rely on shape optimization, an approach that uses modeling to create a framework for making devices as smooth and efficient as possible....
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