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Custom-Engineered Suture and Fiber Components

Teleflex Medical OEM, Gurnee, IL, announces a portfolio of highly-specialized capabilities for delivering innovative, fiber-based solutions to medical device manufacturers. Vertically integrated...

New Additive Manufacturing Services

PTI Engineered Plastics, Inc., Macomb, MI, expands its services into the additive manufacturing /3D world with the procurement of the Lumex Avance-25—currently the only machine capable of manufacturing...

Medical-Grade ColorRx Products

Infinity LTL Engineered Compounds, Morrisville, PA, introduces its new medicalgrade, flame retardant ColorRx® compounds, which can be based on polycarbonate, PC/ABS, or PC/polyester alloys. In addition to ISO...

Sanitary Flanges with Barbs

Qosina, Edgewood, NY, has added seven new sanitary flanges with barbs, available in two sizes, 0.5"/0.75" mini and 1"/1.5" standard. Sanitary flanges have an oversized hose barb design that facilitates a strong...

Medical-Grade Liquid Silicone Rubber

Proto Labs, Maple Plain, MN, has introduced medical-grade liquid silicone rubber (LSR) material to its quick-turn injection molding capabilities in addition to its standard and optical-grade LSR materials....

Low Volatile LIMS Product Line

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc., Akron, OH, announces its new Low Dn LIMS (Liquid Injection Molding Systems) product line, the KEG2003H, which has been formulated and manufactured to significantly reduce the...

2-to-6 Layer Extrusion Tooling

Guill Tool & Engineering, West Warwick, RI, announces the latest generation of its Series 800, the 2-to-6 layer extrusion tooling designed to produce the highest quality, highest material-efficient 1/8" to 6"...

Thermoplastic Elastomers for Extreme Conditions

Polymax Thermoplastic Elastomers, Inc., Waukegan, IL, announces an expanded line of premium quality TPE. Developed using new product formulations and custom-engineered production machinery, these...

Smallest and Most Accurate Gas and Pressure Sensors

Sensirion, Inc., Westlake Village, CA, introduces a new gas sensor that is the first in the world to be based on multipixel technology, and a new barometric pressure sensor. Both new sensors...

Product of the Month: QP1-2 Liquid Silicone Rubber

Dow Corning, Midland, MI, introduces its advanced QP1-2 Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) product line. These five new platinumcatalyzed, heat-cured silicone elastomers offer medical device...

Products of Tomorrow

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,...

Choosing the Right Batteries for High-Tech Devices

Wireless technology is growing rapidly, now encompassing consumer-grade devices as well as industrial-grade products used in utility meter reading (AMR/AMI), wireless mesh networks, system...

Software Helps NASA Simulate Performance of James Webb Telescope

Femap™ engineering simulation software Siemens PLM Software Plano, TX 972-987-3000 www.siemens.com/plm Scheduled for launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...

Improved Calibration Shows Images’ True Colors

NASA Technology In satellite images, the waters of the Pearl River, which winds around NASA’s Stennis Space Center, are about the same brownish green typical of waterways the world over. It’s...

Researcher Spotlight: Imaging Software Improves Video Monitoring of Vital Signs

By detecting nearly imperceptible changes in skin color, emerging imaging technologies have been able to extract pulse rate, breathing rate, and other vital signs...

High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) Upgrades Inspection Results

Designers and operators of automated inspection systems have long been challenged with completing accurate inspections when those tasks required high dynamic range, or when there was...

Advanced Holography Offers 3D Fire Measurements

In a propellant fire, large molten aluminum drops form at the burning surface. The drops are lofted into the environment and can severely damage anything that they fall on. Liquid breakup must be...

Cameras Provide Critical Data for NASA Rocket’s First Flight

On March 11, NASA tested the powerful five-segment booster for NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System. To provide critical data for the rocket’s first flight, eight cameras...

Integrating Functional Pneumatic Safety Devices into Control Systems

Over the past several years, controls engineers have become adept at applying control systems to machine safety applications. The issue is that safety is a moving target....

Thermoplastic Racks Open Up New Motion Control Applications

Rack and pinions are linear actuators that play a critical role in a wide range of linear motion control applications. While rack and pinions are commonly thought of as a timeless...

Explosion-Proof Encoder

BEI Sensors (Goleta, CA) announced the Model LP35 explosion-proof and flameproof, low-profile, hollow shaft encoder that features a 2.01" profile and is designed to meet UL, ATEX, and IECEx standards for operation...

Product of the Month

Diversified Technical Systems, Seal Beach, CA, has introduced the SLICE Pro shock-hardened, megasample data acquisition system. The miniature SLICE data recorder can be mounted directly on the test article – no slip rings...

Vehicle Dynamics Software

Mechanical Simulation Corp.’s CarSim 9.0 vehicle dynamics software upgrade features major enhancements to the math models, visualization tools, database, and overall architecture. In version 9, CarSim makes it even...

Camera Uses Sensor with Only 1,000 Pixels to Capture Mega-Pixel Videos

Sensors in cell phones and single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs) are made of silicon, which is sensitive to the visible wavebands of light and therefore useful for consumer...

Robust Controller Board

MEN Micro's robust CC10S is a multi-display controller board based on a Freescale processor. Providing full HD resolution to LCD PCs from 7 to 15 in (178 to 381 mm), the compact CC10S offers improved, scalable graphics...