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Case Study - Transportation - Integrated Gasket Solutions
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: The term "speed to market" speaks to the amount of time it takes for an organization to launch a product or service and commercialize it. It accounts for the time taken to mature the idea, design, ...
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Keeping Automated Vehicles on Track with 2D LiDAR Localization
From: SICKDescription: LiDAR Localization software uses measurement data from safety laser scanners as a supplement to magnetic and optical tracking guidance technologies ...
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Case Study: Increase Availability and Improve Controls System
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Leading US cheese manufacturer. Goal: Streamline instrumentation replacement so technicians can work on other value-added activities ...
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Case Study: Design/Build Highly Efficient Plant
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Leading design / build engineering and construction firm. Goals: Reduce unplanned production stops due to instrumentation failures and reduce overall project costs ...
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Case Study: Reduce Scrap and Improve Performance
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components. Goals: Improve performance through scrap reduction ...
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Case Study: Improve Equipment Availability
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components. Goals: Optimize operations and comply with corporate Industry 4.0 initiatives ...
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Medical Electronics Growth Predictions for Today and Beyond
Description: Medical electronics is one of the strongest sectors in the market, with growth fueled by a variety of factors. ...
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MarShield Shielding Solutions to Reduce Long Term Exposure to X-ray Radiation
From: MarShieldDescription: While x-rays are a valuable diagnostic non-invasive tool with minimal risk to the patient, repeated long term exposure to x-rays can be harmful. Construction of hospitals and dental offices take steps ...
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Single-use Systems for Bioprocessing
From: Qosina Corp.Description: Global health challenges like COVID-19 provide a new perspective on single-use systems. During such crises, single-use systems, which offer significantly reduced time to clinic and market, bring an ...
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Biotechnology and Bioreactors: A Very Diverse Technology
From: Bronkhorst USADescription: Biotechnological processes are conducted in a bioreactor, where substances are being synthesized with the help of bacterial, yeast- and cell strains. The end product is used in many areas of our daily ...
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Respiratory Equipment: Answering the Call for Critical Healthcare Devices
From: TE ConnectivityDescription: The COVID-19 pandemic has put significant stresses on the global healthcare infrastructure, raising awareness on the need for adequate respiratory care equipment and placing significant demand on the ...
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Accuride in Action: Moving Medical Testing Stations Forward with Baker-Ruskinn
Description: Baker-Ruskinn used Accuride two-way travel slides to ensure smooth movement for the interlock tray. ...
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ROHM Automotive Lighting Solutions White Paper
Description: Automotive technology is undergoing a major transformation. A greater number of electronic components is needed to support the advancement of sensing and safety functions required for autonomous ...
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Ventilator Diagram
Description: In response to the special treatment given for Class II ventilators in the US, we have posted a block diagram of a ventilator. ...
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HexArmor Case Study
From: BoydDescription: Learn how HexArmor® and Boyd Corporation partnered together to quickly design and manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) like Face Shields and disposable goggles to protect healthcare ...
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Remote Monitoring Comes of Age
Description: Companies with geographically dispersed operations, such as upstream and midstream oil and gas facilities, can benefit from the increased ability to monitor and control those installations remotely ...
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What You Need to Know About RCRA
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: Chemical spill catastrophes make headline news, but there are thousands of smaller spills from drums, IBC totes, tanks, hoses and all sorts of machinery that result in violations and "smaller," ...
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Automated Guided Vehicles and item Supply Trolleys In Use at Audi
From: item America, LLCDescription: In state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing, modularity and versatility are increasingly important factors when it comes to planning and implementing material supply trolleys for intralogistics. ...
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Antimicrobial Surfaces and Medical-Grade Materials
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Antimicrobial coatings and medical grade plastics can help reduce healthcare-associated infections including COVID-19, MRSA, Staphylococcus, E. Coli, and more. ...
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AH200C MEMS Mini Attitude and Heading Reference System
Description: AH200C is a high performance AHRS (Mini AHRS) with low price, can be widely used in aircraft model, unmanned aerial vehicles, robots and other high homeostasis electromechanical devices. ...
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Clinicians Turn to Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Learn about telehealth and how it is being used to fight COVID-19. ...
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Helping to Build Ventilators in the Coronavirus Pandemic
From: bisco industriesDescription: Contributing to supply chain continuity during these times of disruption provides a real purpose and meaning to my job," Scott said. We are in this together. The thought and action taken by Scott and ...
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Negative and Positive Pressure Rooms 101 | Hospital Infection Control
From: Air Innovations LLCDescription: Effective positive and negative pressure rooms are an important part of industrial climate control systems. In medical settings, these rooms prevent the spread of infectious contaminants and maintain ...
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3 Ways the Industrial Environment is Tackling the IoT Revolution
Description: As IoT grows and exerts its influence over every aspect of our lives, there is no field that has come under its influence more than heavy industries. Manufacturing and production rely on massive and ...
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Automated Guided Vehicle Case
Description: With the improvement of port automation, AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle) has become the trend of container handling systems. This article mainly describes the successful application of the INVT GD800 ...
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Floating Crane Case
Description: With the development of automation technology, the floating crane equipment also starts to use the automatic control system. The frequency converter is used as the core driving part for power balance ...
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Mine Hoist Case
Description: This article analyzes operating characteristics of mine hoist, controlling difficulty and special requirement to inverter, introduce Goodrive300-19 series special inverter for crane, and advantage of ...
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An Inside Look at the Updated ANSI B11.19 Standard: Part 1
From: SICKDescription: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) provides national standards to achieve the safety of people working with industrial equipment. The ANSI B11 Standards series provides details on ...
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An Inside Look at the Updated ANSI B11.19 Standard: Part 2
From: SICKDescription: Risk reduction measures for machine safeguarding should always be taken to achieve the safety of people working with industrial equipment. The latest version of the American National Standard ANSI ...
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Conductor Bar 0812 Part of Niagara Falls' Incline Railway's Ups and Downs
From: Conductix-WampflerDescription: It's been almost 30 years, but tourists are again able to ride the reborn "Maid of the Mist" rail down into the Niagara Gorge. In 2017, Hornblower Niagara Cruises began the work of bringing the old ...
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Double Sided Cooling for Hybrid Vehicle
From: BoydDescription: The development and production of electric and hybrid vehicles has been on the rise over the last 2 decades and this trend is likely to increase exponentially over the next 20 years. As automotive ...
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Care Essentials for Ventilator Patients
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: In a variety of settings, nurses are becoming more likely to care for patients on mechanical ventilators. This is because patients on a mechanical ventilator have special needs that nurses must attend ...
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Seven Secrets of 3D Printing for Aerospace
Description: With additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, you can track the advancement of the technology into production environments alongside the rapid adoption of additive in the aerospace industry. ...
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SUCCESS SECURED WITH LOCTITE Threadlockers Drive Specialty Vehicle Innovation
Description: Local Motors, a technology company, faced two different challenges when it set out to build two very different vehicles: the Rally Fighter®, a high-performance off-road machine; and the ...
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INS600 RTK INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Description: ? INTRODUCTION The INS600 series is a dual-antenna GPS/INS integrated navigation system built by RION. The dual-antenna differential positioning measurement unit (IMU) is precisely calibrated in the ...
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The Importance of Training Programs for Proper Insulation Installations
Description: For any hydrocarbon-related project, the quality of insulation material and installation are critical for process control, safety and long-term performance. This is especially the case with LNG ...
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3D Electronic Compass-DCM302B
Description: 3D Electronic Compass(2D Calibration)-DCM302B ?Heading accuracy:0.5°~0.8° ?Tilt angle measuring range :±85° ?Tilt angle resolution: 0.1° ?Tilt angle accuracy: 0.1° ?Wide temperature : -40?~+85? ?Size: ...
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Mckenzie Vaughn Hospital - Toronto
Description: Mckenzie Vaughn Hospital - Toronto Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be Canada's first smart hospital, with integrated technology systems and medical devices. These critical care components will ...
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How do IMPA Marine Numbers Map to Phelps Industrial's Products
Description: IMPA Marine stores coding/numbers are used in the marine industry to identify marine supplies world-wide. The IMPA system consists of a 6-digit code for marine products, and related products are ...
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Deep Space With Humans on Board: New Material Enables 3D Printed Parts on Orion
From: Stratasys, Ltd.Description: If space is the final frontier, then human travel in to deep space, beyond the Moon, is the ultimate frontier. NASA's Orion program intends to do just that - travel with humans on board back to the ...
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AS9100D-Certified Suppliers Keep Aerospace Companies Soaring
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Every industry has its own series of quality requirements and inspections associated with the types of outputs that its end products are meant to perform. The aerospace industry finds itself in an ...
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Digital Manufacturing Helps Medtech Firm's Goal to Improve Patient Outcomes
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: As often happens in the medical industry, innovative ideas, hatched in university research settings, spawn innovative companies, which create innovative products. A case in point: HemoSonics. The ...
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Lockheed Martin Explores a Different Kind of Space for NASA
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Mankind first set foot on the moon in 1969, laying our first footprints on our orbiting partner, roughly 230,000 miles away. Nearly five decades have now passed since we last visited. Today, NASA is ...
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PEEK, PEI, LSR, and Other Material Options for Medical Prototyping
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Developing parts for the medical device industry is a high-stakes process, and material choice is an important decision to make at the outset of the project. Five strong contenders include PEEK, PEI ...
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Strategic Prototyping for Human-Factors Engineering
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Human-Factors Engineering (HFE) is gaining increasing attention, especially in the context of medical device product development. As technologies evolve, therapies advance, and devices become more ...
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The Complete Welding Career Path Guide for Parents
Description: In this guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about careers in welding and how to share this information with your child. ...
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Chemistry Drives Structural Bonding and Lightweight Solutions for Battery Electric Vehicles
Description: As the global market for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) continues to grow, electrification is shaping the future of automotive design. Electrification systems are more powerful and intricate than ...
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Lightweight Construction: A New Era
Description: The car of the future will be electric - that much is clear. However, manufacturers still face some major challenges before comprehensive and emissions-free electromobility becomes a reality. In ...
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Structural Foam Hybrid Body Panels Enable Significant Vehicle Weight Reduction
Description: Structural inserts from Henkel are designed to enable significant weight reduction while maintaining structural integrity and crash safety standards. ...
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Actionable Steps to Eliminate Small-Bore Connector Misconnection
From: Qosina Corp.Description: The Japanese principle of "poka-yoke", or passive mistake-proofing, is a key principle of product design in many industries. The goal is simply to remove product defects by preventing human errors on ...
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How to Improve Resiliency in the Medical Device Supply Chain
From: Qosina Corp.Description: Supply chain breakdowns in product quality, delivery or availability are a major disruption in the medical device supply industry. In addition to adding time and cost to the device procurement ...
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Overcoming Barriers of Adopting ISO 80369
From: Qosina Corp.Description: The high stress of an emergency room or ICU creates an environment in which the probability of human error spikes dramatically, adding a layer of risk to an already-tense situation. Asking medical ...
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The Clock Is Ticking: Will Notified Body Capacity for the EU MDR Affect You? - Updated 10.18.19
From: Qosina Corp.Description: In July, we published a white paper on the progress of the new European Union Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Device Regulation (IVDR) and how the lack of Notified Bodies (NB) could ...
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HCM370B-HCM375B High Accuracy 3D Digital Compass
Description: HCM370B-HCM375B is a high accuracy 3D digital compass of strip shape, its length is only 1.6cm, IP67 protection grade, suitable for many harsh environment such as drilling measurement. It adopts ...
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Radiation Shielding Solutions for Nuclear Medicine
From: MarShieldDescription: Nuclear Medicine is a growing field with innovations in technology, diagnostic procedures and therapeutic purposes. Variety of workplaces including hospitals, universities and research facilities are ...
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IPLEX GX/GT - Fast and Reliable Inspections for Automotive OEMs
From: Evident ScientificDescription: Automotive inspections are challenging due to the large, complex structure of cars and the location of critical components - deep inside the engine, for example. Videoscopes are well suited for ...
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The Future of Medical Imaging and Medical Imaging Cable Assembly
From: NAI Group, LLCDescription: Substantial advances in medical imaging technology are now taking place, both in software such as cloud computing tools and hardware such as medical imaging cable assemblies. Looking at future trends ...
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Trends in Medical Patient Handling Equipment
From: NAI Group, LLCDescription: These days, medical technology is providing a level of care, support, and disease prevention not imagined even just a few years ago. The diagnoses of conditions such as strokes and even dementia now ...
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Engineering and the VW Scandal
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: As an engineer who's also a "car guy", I've monitored the VW emissions scandal with some degree of sadness. I've always been proud of being an engineer, and one of my points of pride has been that our ...
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Do You Have Confidence in Your Quality Inspections?
From: HSBDescription: High performance of equipment means complicated equipment. Add multiple production processes and global suppliers and it's a wonder anything can be built correctly. Margins are thin and unplanned ...
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Aging Populations Challenge the Healthcare System
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Current demographic changes are increasing the proportion of elderly people significantly. This presents a wide range of challenges for the healthcare system - challenges that can only be resolved by ...
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Dignity and Independence through Assistive Technology in Healthcare
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: More and more elderly residents wish to uphold self-preservation and retain their dignity in spite of the inevitable physical challenges or handicaps life brings. This raises the number of ...
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General Safety Features in Actuator Systems for Healthcare Equipment
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Enhancing safety is often a mix of several initiatives and a broad focus is required to make healthcare applications that comply with standards and norms. At LINAK we give a high focus on specific ...
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LINAK CO-Link™ Adds Channels to Actuator Systems within Healthcare
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: CO-Link™ is a LINAK concept allowing you to double the number of channels in your actuator system, using the LINAK products already available. It will operate with twice the power, and even ...
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LINAK is Delivering More Power, Speed, Safety and Value to Customers' Applications
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Over the last 20 years, LINAK has watched global trends and developments and used that knowledge to develop cutting edge components for healthcare equipment. With more patients in need of care there's ...
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Medical Approvals for Electric Actuator Systems
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Quality and Safety are key issues for LINAK. Application manufacturers have to be aware of the requirements for testing and certification of the final medical equipment. LINAK delivers certificates ...
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Obesity Challenges the Healthcare System
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: The fact that more and more people are becoming overweight places great demands on healthcare applications - they must be able to withstand more. New and stronger products are necessary to offer obese ...
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Power and Speed to Create Effective Movement in Hospitals
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: For many healthcare applications, such as operating tables, couches, beds, and X-ray equipment, a powerful actuator system is a way to achieve the efficiency required to ensure optimal treatment for ...
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Responsible Power Sources from LINAK
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: As renewable energy and green agendas spread across the world, so does the need for energy - and cost-efficient battery solutions. Made from improved materials and having significantly longer service ...
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Safety Features in LINAK Actuators for Medical Equipment
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: With more than 25 years of experience developing electrical actuator solutions, LINAK understands the importance of combining quality with safety, functionality and design. In order to meet the ...
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Safety in LINAK Hand Controls for Actuators in Healthcare Applications
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: The development of LINAK hand controls for healthcare equipment is based on research and usability studies to ensure proper functionality, intuitive interfaces, ergonomic design and intended to ...
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Safety with LINAK OpenBus™ Control Boxes for Healthcare Equipment
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Apart from being able to coordinate multiple actuators to form complex and precise movement patterns, LINAK's series of intelligent OpenBus control boxes include several safety-improving features: ...
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The Internet of Things will Help Maintain Efficiency in Healthcare
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a phenomenon that has been the focus of attention within various lines of business for quite some time. In healthcare it will change the way we approach the entire ...
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Application Spotlight: Self-Locking Rings in Automotive Applications
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley offers an array of standard retaining rings for different applications. Selecting the appropriate ring requires an understanding of the application requirements, which includes thrust load, ...
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Smalley Receives "Stamp of Approval" for Medical Component Manufacturing
From: SmalleyDescription: Quality parts make for an exceptional medical device. For many years, Smalley has been a trusted supplier to the medical industry. Our recent certification to ISO 13485 is another indicator of our ...
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Apollo 11: We Touched the Moon and Now Aim at the Stars
Description: A brief history and a look at what the future holds ...
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Different Ways Mechanical Components Are Making A Difference
From: PrecipartDescription: We commonly associate the act of helping others with volunteering for a charity, donating funds, or simply lending a hand. But, positive social actions can take many forms and come from many different ...
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Opportunity Knocks: Precipart Helped Power Historic Mars Rover
From: PrecipartDescription: Here at Precipart, we're proud to have played a small part in the mission, alongside the engineers, scientists, and NASA leaders who designed, engineered, and piloted the Mars rover. It's an honor for ...
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Trends in Specialty Tubing to Address the Medical Challenges of Today
Description: The manufacturing tools and fabrication techniques used to produce medical tubing have become extraordinarily exacting and complex. That complexity is driven by the many applications in which tubing ...
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Kaleesuwari Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Edible oil is a highly competitive market. Delivering health and wellness through their superior products, Kaleesuwari is a company that prides itself on its responsiveness to customer requirements. ...
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Magnus Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Magnus Services, a start-up oilfield water management and automation company based in North Dakota, was looking for a way to remotely monitor and control water usage during the fracking operation in ...
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Xianjiang Zhundong Petroleum Company Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: The Xinjiang Zhundong Petroleum Company drills for oil and gas in the eastern region of Zhungeer, Xinjiang in China. Located in a desolate area that faces extreme temperatures, rugged equipment is ...
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The Benefits of On-Site Oil Analysis
Description: The key benefits of on-site oil analysis are maintenance cost savings and productivity increases from increasing the uptime of running machines. Machines run longer if the right oils are used and if ...
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Measurements of Automotive Parts
Description: As technologies have progressed, car manufacturers have had to ensure the precision production of parts and casing to ensure the smooth running and ultimate performance they strive to achieve, whilst ...
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Achieving Cognitive Diversity Through Education - Diversity in Tech: Part III
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Diversity in Tech is about physical representation and cognitive variation. But representation and variation show up the most in large workforces. Right now, there are more STEM jobs open, and ...
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Guide to Navigating Greenville's Artisphere
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Sealevel is a sponsor of the Greenville Artisphere festival, now in its fifteenth year. This sponsorship is a nod to the love of art Sealevel's founders, the O'Hanlans, have - cultivated especially by ...
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Who Needs Diversity in Tech? - Diversity in Tech: Part II
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Diversity for diversity's sake is not a productive conversation. Part I in our "Diversity in Tech" series showed that the consequences of diversity - creativity, profit, collective good and ...
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9-th International Exhibition of Arms and Military Machinery MILEX-2019 which is in Minsk, Belarus.
Description: MILEX-2019, on May 15-18, 2019, include the most advanced models of weaponry and military equipment designed by engineering companies of Belarus, Russia, the CSTO states and other countries of near ...
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Bearing Preload: What is it and Why is it Important?
From: Temper CorporationDescription: Applications such as machine tool spindles, electric motors and automotive differentials require precision rotary motion with a higher degree of stiffness and positional accuracy. To achieve this, a ...
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What Can the Medical Device Industry Learn from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 Crashes?
From: Qosina Corp.Description: Boeing has been in the news recently for two crashes involving the 737 MAX 8 aircraft: October 29, 2018 and March 10, 2019. Tragically, both crashes resulted in the combined loss of 346 lives. The 737 ...
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To Stamp Or Not To Stamp? That Is The Question (Final Version 2019)
From: HSBDescription: Over the past two decades, global sourcing of pressure equipment for use in the oil and gas and other continuous process industries has increased exponentially. At the same time, pressure equipment ...
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Design of Lugs
From: IHS ESDUDescription: Designers of aerospace components such as lugs, tension clips, bath-tub fittings etc. are taking an increasingly pragmatic view of material selection. There is an increasing awareness that the ...
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ESDU Design Decision Support Tool
From: IHS ESDUDescription: ESDU provides validated engineering knowledge and best practices to help design engineers solve complex problems and create innovative products. Guided and approved by independent expert Committees, ...
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Jet Engine and Fan Noise
From: IHS ESDUDescription: The problems associated with the estimation of noise levels from jet engines are of particular concern to operators of jet-powered aircraft. There is a need to predict jet noise levels at many jet ...
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Spotted: ifm and the car for Africa
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Many cars on the streets of Africa have already driven many thousands of kilometres, in most cases in Europe. The newly created aCar by Evum Motors however has been designed especially for the African ...
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Transonic Aerodynamics by ESDU
From: IHS ESDUDescription: The information is concerned with the flow around aerofoils, wings, bodies and cowls at high subsonic, transonic and (in a few cases) low supersonic speeds. The transition from high subsonic to ...
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Automotive radar technology, market and test requirements
Description: This white paper explains the basics of automotive radar, MIMO radar signal processing, applications and market trends. Test and measurement requirements for research and development, mandatory ETSI ...
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Considerations for Medical Grade Foot Controls
Description: Many factors should be considered when choosing a medical foot control for your device. Design Engineers must know that the operation of a foot switch is often very critical to a procedure, so the ...
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Digital vs. Linear
Description: When referencing the word "digital" as a characteristic of a foot control it simply means an on/off actuation. The digital on/off actuation of a foot pedal can be either a momentary actuation (step ...
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Does Your Medical Grade Foot Switch Need A Foot Guard / Shroud?
Description: Some medical applications, such as the medical laser industry, require that the foot pedal have a guard-shroud that covers the pedal to help prevent inadvertent actuation. Most applications don't have ...