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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Answering Your Questions: Is This the End of VME?
A reader asked our expert: What technology will spell the beginning of the end for the VME embedded computing platform?
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The aerospace industry has taken a leadership position in the adoption of additive manufacturing processes, prompting major changes in both design and manufacturing. That’s...
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News: Propulsion
John Rydzewski, assistant chief engineer for GM’s small-block (OHV V8) engines, seems justified in his pride regarding the role his 755-hp LT5 V-8 played in achieving the scorching...
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News: Power
Supercars able to master street and track driving sound good in theory but rarely pan out in practice. Ford’s GT, for example, is a track champ but a clumsy daily driver.
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News: Power
When reviewing a new BMW, it’s important to note the car’s most vital attribute first. And that would be…powertrain performance? Steering precision? Chassis reflexes? The optional ($1700) M Sport brakes? While all are nearly...
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Blog: Materials
A reusable sponge from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory cleans up spills – not in the kitchen, but on the coast.
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Videos: Imaging
Engineers from Yonsei University in South Korea have created a way to build molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) transistors that can function in flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED)...
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Videos: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University introduce a low-cost sensing approach called Wall++. They used conductive paint to create electrodes across the surface of a wall, enabling it to...
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News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Survey Finds Automation 'Critical' to Business
NuTec Tooling Solution has released the compiled results of its first annual Industrial Automation Impact Survey conducted at the end of 2017. The survey evaluated the degree to which industrial automation has influenced production, purchasing habits, and future strategies using feedback from plant...
Videos: Materials
University of Houston researchers have developed a soft robot - composed of ultra-thin sensing, actuating electronics and temperature-sensitive artificial muscle - that can adapt to the...
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Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will All-Liquid 3D-Printing lead to ‘Liquid Electronics’?
A recent video on Tech Briefs TV featured an achievement from Berkeley Lab scientists who have developed a way to print all-liquid 3D structures.
News: Materials
Evonik Intensifies Research into Regenerative Medicine
Evonik has launched a Tissue Engineering Project House where up to 20 scientists from various disciplines will work to make reliable solutions possible for tissue regeneration following accidents or disease. The aim is to develop materials for biological implants in medical applications....
News: Test & Measurement
Mahr Signs Cooperation Agreement with NanoFocus
Mahr and NanoFocus, the German manufacturer of 3D surface metrology, have signed a cooperation agreement. In May 2018, Mahr will be offering confocal microscopes from NanoFocus as the new Mahr product family MarSurf CM. This expands Mahr’s tactile portfolio with optical metrology.
News: Medical
Sotera Health LLC to Sell Nordion’s Medical Isotopes Segment to BWXT
Sotera Health has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to sell the Medical Isotopes segment of its Nordion business to a subsidiary of BWX Technologies. According to the company, the transaction will create a platform that will accelerate growth for both companies.
News: Test & Measurement
ORS Acquires Silicon Cert Laboratories
ORS Labs, the parent company of Oneida Research Services, Inc. (ORS), has acquired Silicon Cert Laboratories in Reading, PA. Silicon Cert Laboratories is an internationally recognized leader in environmental and mechanical testing and qualification of products and components for multiple industries, including...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cadence to be Acquired by Kohlberg & Company
Cadence, Inc., a provider of complex high-precision components and finished devices for advanced surgical and specialty industrial applications, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Kohlberg & Company, a private equity firm based in Mount Kisco, NY.
News: Medical
TT Electronics Acquires Stadium Group
TT Electronics plc has completed the acquisition of Stadium Group plc. Stadium is a supplier of design-led technologies with product capabilities including connectivity solutions, power supplies, human machine interface (HMI), and electronic assemblies.
News: Test & Measurement
Nelson Labs Expands Itasca Lab Operations and Testing Capabilities
Nelson Laboratories, LLC, a Sotera Health company, has made significant investments to expand the operations and service capabilities at its Itasca, IL, laboratory facility to better service customers.
Videos: Aerospace
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. TESS will study 85 percent of the sky, which is area 350 times greater than what NASA's...
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INSIDER: Medical
Michael “Shawn” Findley, a 44-year-old amputee with a wiring harness emerging from his upper left arm, is working with a UT Southwestern team to help change the way robotic hand...
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INSIDER: Medical
The UK National Health Service (NHS) recently invited companies to tender for a contract to provide £300 million (~$429.12 million) worth of surgical robots to surgeries across the UK. With...
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Blog: Medical
Robotics are increasingly find a role in patient rehabilitation. But are the technologies safe?
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Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene. The custom-built, roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition (CVD)...
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INSIDER: Defense
The Air Force is testing materials produced through ceramic additive manufacturing to advance their potential future use in hypersonic flight vehicles. The Air Force and its...
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News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Autonomous ship ahoy! The remote-control operation of a commercial marine vessel in 2017 is the prelude to a self-sailing boat’s debut in the 2020 timeframe.
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Videos: Motion Control
Stanford University students programmed robots to autonomously navigate an unknown city-scape and aid in a simulated rescue of animals in danger, in a...
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Blog: Materials
With a syringe-like applicator, the XSTAT hemostatic tool injects small, rapidly-expanding sponges into a wound cavity.
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News: Propulsion
Aircraft produced and operated today increasingly rely electrical and electronic equipment to perform various functions. If one of these electronic functions were to fail, the impact felt by, say, a passenger jet could be as...
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News: Unmanned Systems
The more vehicles do to take control and perform safety-related maneuvers without driver input, the smaller will be their margin for error. Ensuring that all the sensors,...
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Ask the Expert

John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.