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News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Universal Sensor Transmitter
Knick USA has introduced to the North American market its PolyTrans P 32000 universal sensor transmitters. Measurements of temperature, strain, force, and position are common within a range of market sectors, and are especially true within control and monitoring and safety shutdown systems. As a result, commercial...
Articles: Defense
It is hard to imagine just how radical the change in fortunes for the world’s major commercial aerospace manufacturers has been in the last few years. Just ten years ago the smart money in aerospace pointed...
Articles: Defense
The hype phrase today is “Big Data.” It is a phrase Mark Bünger, Research Director for Lux Research, believes can have a number of definitions depending on who is doing the defining. Bünger was...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The need for a high-bandwidth communication link to carry multiple video channels from a mobile robot (unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV) back to a control station requires using high-frequency RF...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
One of the methods for radar testing is the simulation of an environment where there are dynamic or static objects that are scanned by the radar under test. In particular,...
Technical Innovation: Defense
Metal laser melting has made a successful leap from rapid prototyping to an approved manufacturing technology, and the method is increasingly becoming...
Technology Update: Defense
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
Application Briefs: Defense
Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474 www.cra.com
The Department of Defense recently awarded Charles River Analytics, a developer of intelligent systems and robotic platforms, a follow-on contract for...
Application Briefs: Defense
Logos Technologies Fairfax, VA 703-584-5725 www.logostech.net
In partnership with the San Francisco, CA-based motorcycle maker Alta Motors, Logos Technologies has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
PPG Industries Pittsburgh, PA 412-434-3131 www.ppgaerospace.com
PPG Industries’ aerospace coatings group has installed an electrocoat primer system at the US Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City,...
Application Briefs: Defense
Office of Naval Research Arlington, VA 703-696-5031 www.onr.navy.mil
To improve the ability to detect and defeat adversary radars and anti-ship missiles, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with the MIT’s...
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: Aerospace
The civil aviation market comprises commercial passenger planes, cargo planes, private planes, private jets, and helicopters. Design engineers strive to reduce aircraft weight and costs,...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Servo motors MICROMO (the FAULHABER Group) Clearwater, FL 800-807-9166 www.micromo.com
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) builds economical launch vehicles like the Falcon 9 to carry a range...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
KA Series PCB connectors and D-Sub Series connectors Smiths Connectors Costa Mesa, CA 714-371-1100 www.smithsconnectors.com
Development of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle was...
Articles: Aerospace
NASA Technology
Like a desert caravan, a space flight crew has to bring with it everything it will need over the course of its journey into an utterly barren environment. This has always...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Microchip Technology, Chandler, AZ, offers the PAC1921 high-side current/power sensor with both a digital output and a configurable analog output that can present power, current, or voltage over a single output pin....
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
In the automation industry, engineers strive every day to advance their process and products. Engineers have to select components, learn and use many tools to construct their...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Hydraulic and pneumatic systems have traditionally been the market leader in providing power in the aerospace and defense industry because of their low cost and...
Articles: Test & Measurement
One important requirement for instruments like oscilloscopes is the ability to detect and trigger on an event of interest within a stream of unsuspicious signals fast and reliably. The quicker a specific...
Articles: Test & Measurement
With advances in technology, ATE systems are becoming more widely used across a range of industries including manufacturing, avionics, aerospace, military, and defense. ATE systems are...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
A flexible hydrostatic test system for the oil and gas industry must precisely measure a wide range of pressures. Because the items tested vary widely, most testing is done manually. A...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
AMETEK Taylor Hobson (Leicester, UK) offers the Surtronic Duo surface measurement system, which consists of the Surtronic R-Series roundness and form tester (for bearing parts) and the Surtronic S-100 portable roughness...
Products: Test & Measurement
The AQM-103 series of carbon monoxide monitors from OMEGA Engineering (Stamford, CT) are designed to measure CO concentration, humidity, and air temperature. The CE-compliant devices feature a large LCD display that...
Products: Test & Measurement
Paul N. Gardner Co. (Pompano Beach FL) introduced the Fowler Xtra-Value II electronic micrometer with a choice of measuring range, and an LCD with an inch/metric switchable resolution. A switchable resolution of 0.00005"...
Products: Test & Measurement
Yokogawa Corporation of America (Sugar Land, TX) introduced the GS820 multi-channel source measure unit (SMU) that features isolated 2-channel source and measurement functions. The unit sources up to 50 Volts and 0.6 Amps...
Products: Test & Measurement
The V616 digital transceiver from Innovative Integration (Camarillo, CA) supports one or two plug-in modules, each featuring four independent channels of DDC, two DUC, and one spectrum analyzer embedded in the Xilinx...
Products: Test & Measurement
Keysight Technologies (Santa Rosa, CA) announced a new capability that adds a high-performance spectrum analyzer to the PNA and PNA-X Series of microwave vector network analyzers (VNAs). This capability reduces test...
Products: Test & Measurement
The GSM-60 from ENMET, LLC (Ann Arbor, MI) is a microprocessor-based gas monitor designed for use in industrial process, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor applications. The system incorporates an internal sample draw pump...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.