Signal generators have had to advance beyond the tunable continuous-wave (CW) devices of the tube age to serve an industry that is densely packed with complex modulation and high-fidelity requirements. Naturally, this evolution has driven signal generators to incorporate advanced software control and ever greater modulation capabilities. Aerospace/defense and telecommuni...
intained a 50-Mb/s troposcatter communication link in excess of 100 miles at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The system, otherwise known as AN/TSC-198 (V3), provides high-bandwidth, low-latency, non-satellite, beyond-line-of-sight network transport for existing (and future) bandwidth intensive C5IR platforms. It combines the battle-tested SNAP Very Small Aper...
Chemring Technology Solutions, Avanti Government Services, and Spectra have collaborated to bring SmartLink capabilities to Avanti’s Ka-band satellite system using Spectra’s Hostile Area Deployment Environment (SHADE) solutions. SmartLink supports military units in need of a secure connection and mobile network operators (MNOs) who need to extend their services to remote...
Jeremy Shinton discusses the role of machine-to-machine communications as a driver for change. The water industry is one of the most tightly regulated sectors, with companies under pressure not only to deliver optimum efficiency and productivity but to do so under the watchful eye of regulating bodies. This places stringent demands on the automation systems employed, ...
Technicians unload the LEAPTech experimental wing upon its arrival at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The wing was then mounted on a specially modified truck for ground testing. The experimental wing, called the Hybrid-Electric Integrated Systems Testbed (HEIST), is mounted on a specially modified truck. Testing on the mobile ground rig assembly will provide va...
NET and WPF technologies from Microsoft. Designed from the ground up to make setup, diagnostics, commissioning and using our range of Motion Coordinators even more straight-forward. It provides the user with an easy to understand Windows based interface for rapid application development, controller configuration and monitoring of controller processes. Motion Perfect v ...
Today’s company networks comprise hundreds of devices: routers for directing data packets to the right receiver, firewall components for protecting internal networks from the outside world, and network switches. Such networks are extremely inflexible because every component, every router and every switch can carry out only the task it was manufactured for. If the network...
Airports are now subject to careful security surveillance, but many coastal towns and ports are not; they often lack radar installations to keep track of small boats, meaning terrorists could easily use speedboats to approach the coastline and bring explosives on land. Now, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics F...
This will make it possible to precisely reconstruct even the processes going on inside materials and e.g. provide a reliable way of detecting minoscule faults. In medicine, X-rays provide high-resolution images of our insides to help doctors make a definitive diagnosis. Industry uses X-rays, too – as a reliable, non-destructive way of seeing what’s hidden on insid...
The collaborative engineering and manufacturing firm Local Motors has announced that the car in this illustration will be 3D printed at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). This car design—called “Strati” by its creator, Michele Anoé of Italy—was the winner out of more than 200 entries submitted to Local Motors’ 3D Printed Car Design Challenge....
A door has been opened to low-power off/on switches in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices, as well as ultrasensitive bio-sensors, with the first observation of piezoelectricity in a free standing two-dimensional semiconductor by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkele...
The Defender line of calibration instrumentation target portable or laboratory applications with DryCal technology for fast, ±1% of reading calibrations. Three instruments are available. The Defender 510 is a volumetric primary flow standard while the Defender 520 is an enhanced volumetric primary flow standard that also records ambient temperature and pressure condition...
There is a remarkable density of world-famous companies in San Jose, where names such as Apple, Google, and Facebook can be found. Silicon Valley stands for ingenuity, software developments, and unconventional people. Industry has now discovered this for itself. At first glance, you might think that industry and Silicon Valley would not be compatible. But if you take ...
We encounter magnetic field sensors everywhere today – but few of us know it. These sensors make sure washing machines run concentrically, that headlights automatically adjust to the correct angle if a car is heavily loaded, or that we are warned if a seatbelt is not fastened right. If a mechanical movement is transformed into a rotation, the magnetic sensor detects this...
The sharper the image, the darker it is. A novel optical approach brings brightness and sharpness together for the first time on screens of any curvature – and additionally allows about 10,000-times faster projection rates. Researchers will be presenting their technology November 4-6 at Vision 2014 in Stuttgart. (Hall 1, Booth G42) The logo glows above the overhan...
They are used, for example, to monitor the status of the engines on airplanes, or for medical implants. They gather the energy they need for this from their immediate environment - from vibrations, for instance. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials. They will unveil a preliminary demonstration model at t...
Fraunhofer researchers intend to boost efficiency with a new approach to digital logistics, without sacrificing the security of air freight operations. Thousands of freight items are shipped by plane every day, around seventy percent of them in airliners. Stringent controls are supposed to prevent hazardous substances such as explosives from being smuggled on boar...
Steel, aluminum, magnesium, fiber-reinforced plastics: cars are built from a wide array of materials today. These have to be connected with each other reliably. To wit: even if the joints become loose in a crash, passengers must face no greater risk of injury than before. Manufacturers use their welding equipment for cars made entirely of steel. However, if you want to c...
“Wind turbines oscillate with displacements of up to a meter in magnitude, even at normal wind speeds. This represents a large load for the material, which can lead to damage and worst case to failure of an installation,” says Dr. Ilja Kaufmann from the Optronics Department of IOSB in Ettlingen. For this reason, operators continuously check how strong the oscillations ar...
Abstract What industries would find this most relevant? Chemicals Food, beverage, or tobacco Pharmaceuticals Which of your engineering specialties does this project best illustrate? Automation and control engineering (including designs and implementation) Control panels (including fabrication, installation, and UL listing) Data colle...
Abstract In conjunction with that expansion project, they have also replaced land line transmission to cellular circuits. Because cellular charges are flat rate unlimited usage the City is saving hundreds of dollars per month in telephone charges. What industries would find this most relevant? Chemicals Government or military Utilities or telecommunic...
The specific functions are synchronous operation (1:1 or with gear ratio), camming and positioning of the synchronous axes. The new functions are part of the DCB (Drive Control Block) extension function block library General Motion Control (GMC), which is available for downloading from the Siemens Industry Support web pages. The company says the advanced technology f...
Hexagon Metrology says its new 7.10.7 SF shop floor CMMs are specially designed to operate in harsh industrial environments. The new CMM’s computer, controller and interface boxes are housed in a self-contained unit for easy transport on the shop floor. It has a measuring stroke of 710mm x 1010mm x 680mm, and uses standard 110/220 volt single phase outlets with no ne...
