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The Evolution of Space Laser Terminal Architecture
From: Avantier Inc.Description: -While the fundamental advantages of Free-Space Optical Communication (FSOC)-such as high bandwidth and RF-jamming immunity-are well-established (see our FSOC Fundamentals), the industry is now ...
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The 114? Ceasefire: Where Optical Ambition Meets Production Reality
From: Avantier Inc.Description: The 114° Threshold: Not a choice, but a physical “ceasefire” where optical ambition meets manufacturing reality. Physics of cos4 θ: Peripheral light loss and chromatic aberration ...
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Space Telescopes: Optical Design Principles
From: Avantier Inc.Description: -Space telescope design is governed by aperture size, aberration control, and environmental constraints unique to orbit. -Refracting systems offer stability but suffer severe aperture limits, while ...
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Precision Measurement of Cylindrical Lenses
From: Avantier Inc.Description: -Cylindrical lens performance depends on surface profile accuracy, curvature radius precision, and transmitted wavefront quality. -Utilizing a mix of contact profilometry for high-roughness parts and ...
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How Aperture Size Influences Optical Performance in Advanced Imaging Systems
From: Avantier Inc.Description: -Aperture size is a fundamental parameter in optical system design and a primary driver of imaging and measurement performance. -By enabling the collection of more light, larger apertures support ...
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Optical Path Optimization: System Integration through Precision Telecompressor Technology
From: Avantier Inc.Description: -The Precision Telecompressor optimizes optical systems by intelligently mapping full-frame lens performance onto smaller industrial sensors. By compressing the image field, it restores the native ...
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Additional Services That Improve Production Efficiency: From Incoming Goods Inspection to Line Optimization
From: TPS Elektronik GmbHDescription: This article presents a bundled engineering service that improves production efficiency through structured incoming goods inspection, rapid line optimization sprints, and daily management systems, ...
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5 Steps to Speed Up the RFQ Process and Get Products Sooner
From: Faztek, LLCDescription: There are a lot of variables that go into creating a quote for your custom project. In this post we are breaking down some of the most important considerations for your next project to help you ...
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Durable Lenses for Space: Superior Imaging and Light Collection
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Large-aperture aspherical lenses are the optimal choice for space applications demanding high image quality and light collection. By eliminating spherical and coma aberrations, they provide uniform ...
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Reducing Risk in Space Optics Projects: Pre-Qualification & Designing for Qualification
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Risk reduction in space optics is vital since components cannot be repaired once launched. - Avantier ensures reliability through pre-qualification (testing materials, coatings, ...
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Best Optics for Quantum Entanglement Experiments
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Quantum entanglement experiments hinge on two things: the optics chain, which sets the quality of the entangled state, and the single-photon detectors, which define how reliably you can measure it. ...
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Technical Comparison: CO2 Lasers vs. Fiber Lasers
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Fiber lasers (1.06 ?m) excel in aerospace, defense, and medical sectors due to superior beam quality, efficiency (30-40%), compact design, and strong metal absorption, making them ...
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Why Do Optical Projects Fail?
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Optical projects often fail when designs look good in theory but fall apart in production or real-world use. - At Avantier, we prevent these failures by ensuring designs are ...
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ASME Section III, Division 5: 2025 Code Updates
From: HSBDescription: The 2025 Edition of ASME Section III, Division 5 introduces critical updates to design rules supporting advanced high-temperature reactor technologies. Key changes include refined creep-fatigue ...
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ISO 19443 - The What, When, Where, and How?
From: HSBDescription: Customers often require us to work in accordance with a variety of standards to ensure conformance with their specific requirements. These standards may apply to products, materials, inspection ...
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Comprehensive Guide to ISO 10110
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - ISO 10110 is the global standard for representing optical components in technical drawings, ensuring clear communication between designers and manufacturers. - It defines ...
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Thermal Management in Space Optics
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways: Thermal management in space optics - Thermal management in space optics ensures stable performance across the wide thermal variations typical of orbital environments-using passive ...
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How to Manage Wavefront Error Budgets in Space Telescopes
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Meeting strict wavefront error (WFE) budgets is essential in the design and manufacturing of space telescope optics. These performance thresholds determine how clearly and accurately a telescope can ...
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Space-Qualified Optical Sensors for ADCS in Small Satellites
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Optical systems are vital to ADCS performance in small satellites, enabling precise attitude determination with star trackers, sun sensors, and Earth horizon sensors. - Avantier ...
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Selecting the Right Coatings for Space
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Satellite telescope coatings must support wide spectral ranges (UV to LWIR) while enduring radiation, AO exposure, and thermal cycles. - AR coatings for lenses and windows require high ...
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Trends in Space-Based Telescopes: From CubeSat Payloads to Deep Space Observatories
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - Space-based telescopes are evolving rapidly, with growing demand for compact, high-performance optical systems. - Freeform optics enable miniaturized designs, while SiC mirrors offer ...
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Miniaturized Optics for Small Satellites & CubeSats
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways: - Miniaturized optics are revolutionizing CubeSats by enabling high-resolution imaging, agile beam steering, and real-time spectral analysis in compact form factors. - Innovations like ...
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Optical System Design for Wide Spectrum Star Tracker
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Key Takeaways - This article details optical system design for wide spectrum star trackers, vital for spacecraft attitude determination. - It covers reflective, catadioptric, and transmissive types, ...
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Understanding: Aluminum Extrusion Technical Data
From: Faztek, LLCDescription: An aluminum extrusion alloy is a predetermined mixture of one or more elements together with aluminum to be heated and hydraulically pressed through an extrusion die. Some common elements alloyed with ...
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Environmental Silicone: Detection, Control, and Impact on Adhesion in Manufacturing
From: Brighton ScienceDescription: Silicone contamination is a huge problem in many painting and bonding applications. It’s impossible to see, hard to remove, and it creeps in unseen like a ghost. Where the harm it can cause is ...
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The Role of a Network Assessment in Your Plant Network Upgrade
From: Belden Inc.Description: A network assessment can capture insights regarding network health, performance and suitability to give industrial networks the attention and expertise they need. ...
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Smartphone App Processors
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: This study focused on the leading device manufacturers, and on the designs that were the most current as of the study date. ...
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Overconfidence in Idealized Models
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Idealized models are a wonderful way to get a quick grasp of how an optical system might work. But be careful! Real life will never meet your ideal model. ...
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Brunei's Ambitious Plans for Hydrogen
Description: Brunei is currently the largest per capita emitter in the region. But its wealth of natural gas represents a path to the future: hydrogen. It is already being exported to Japan. What else could be ...
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Aiding in the Balancing Act: Removing the Burden of Innovation for Fluid Power Customers
Description: As fluid power professionals, from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to C-Parts suppliers, we are continually challenged to manage day-to-day business activities that drive the bottom line while ...
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Global Supply Optimization, Material Aggregation
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: In this whitepaper, read three bulk purchasing examples that highlight the importance of material aggregation and supply chain support. Cloud-based software offers operations both! ...
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Optical System Design: Challenges and Advantages
From: Avantier Inc.Description: At Avantier, we use Zemax for designing, analyzing, and optimizing optical systems, such as lenses, objectives, cameras, and other optical devices. ...
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Unlock Efficiency and Precision with SpecTRAX Lite: Your Competitive Advantage
From: TechInsights Inc.Description: No longer spend hours manually collecting specification data and monitoring product launches. Let SpecTrax Lite do the work for you, for free. Say goodbye to manual data collection and product ...
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Simulations Reveal Valuable Information About Fluid Power Components
Description: To achieve optimal efficiency, fluid power applications and their sealing components need good friction characteristics and long life to reduce maintenance. ...
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What is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
From: ANZERDescription: A: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to using internet-connected devices and sensors in industrial settings to collect and exchange data to improve operational efficiency and ...
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What is AS9100:2016 Certification?
From: ANZERDescription: AS9100:2016 Certification is a quality management system (QMS) standard developed for the aerospace industry. It is a revision of the previous version AS9100:2009 and is based on the international QMS ...
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Chromalox Provides Unparalleled Guidance and Technology for Decarbonization
From: ChromaloxDescription: Chromalox's Decarbonization Assessment Program starts with a site assessment, where a Chromalox Certified Decarbonization Specialist will walk the facility in order to identify electrification ...
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Resource: Cut production costs and optimize material consumption
From: SICKDescription: Improving processes to optimize material consumption, speed, flexibility or yield increases value creation – by lowering material costs, adapting to changes quickly and increasing revenue with ...
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The Engineer's Guide to Digital Transformation
From: SICKDescription: Also called Industry 4.0, this is achieved when all processes and systems in the factory are in harmony and everything is operating at the highest levels, automatically, with minimal intervention. ...
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Integration and Upgrades for Better Jet Engine Testing
From: RedViking Group, LLCDescription: A large military aerospace center had a standalone test bench for one type of auxiliary power unit (APU). The stand was located outside of the main test center and was completely unlike all other test ...
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Whirl Tower Increases Productivity and Efficiency
From: RedViking Group, LLCDescription: One of the world's largest helicopter companies came to us with a challenge - design and build a new kind of blade balance stand. It needed to handle blades from multiple manufacturers, have greater ...
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Corrosion Under Insulation - A Guide to Dealing with this Hidden Problem
Description: By understanding the types of corrosion and the likely areas of damage concentration where CUI may occur, a well thought out inspection plan can be developed and executed. ...
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Top 3 Reasons for Staff Augmentation in Quality Assurance & Inspection
Description: Staff Augmentation has always been a great option for growing companies, both during times of larger contract work, and during plant transition periods. But now, more than ever, is the right time to ...
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Applications in Manufacturing and Healthcare of AR/MR/VR Part 4
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Augmented Reality (AR) devices overlay digital content onto the real world, benefiting industries like manufacturing and healthcare. Microsoft HoloLens is an example of such a device. Avantier, an ...
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Improve Carrying Costs with Bulk Measurement System
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Before COVID and the supply chain crisis, industries relied on just-in-time ordering to minimize carrying costs. In the present, proactive ordering and real-time data is critical for operations. ...
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Introduction to Reverse Engineering
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Unlock the secrets of cutting-edge optics with reverse optical engineering. Replicate, improve, and customize optical components and systems for medical devices, telecommunications, and military ...
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A Day in the life of...a Digital Technical Consultant
From: SICKDescription: William Fisher’s day-to-day is never the same. As a Digital Technical Consultant for SICK, William can sum up his job in one way: solving customer’s problems. But it’s a bit more ...
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How Could the Manufacturing Sector Utilize Extended Reality?
From: igus® inc.Description: The manufacturing industry is always growing and innovating. Automation and Industry 4.0 are the most talked about examples of this; however, extended reality (XR) provides an avenue to not only ...
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TechInsights' CPL Summary 1Q 2023
From: TechInsights Inc.Description: TechInsights' CPL Summary 1Q 2023 Macroeconomic Outlook. The Component Price Landscape (CPL) report for the first quarter of 2023 still shows a decline in component prices; however, the lead times ...
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What is Shore Power and Why is it Important?
From: igus® inc.Description: As more and more companies and industries aim to become more environmentally friendly, changes need to be made to long-standing conventions. One of the most radical changes is the shift to shore power ...
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How to Read an Optical Drawing
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Discover how optical drawings act as a universal language between optical designers and manufacturers worldwide, and learn how to interpret these detailed plans with precision using the widely ...
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Image Processing Case Study
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Discover how extensive image processing can be used in the transportation industry with this case study. See how two cameras captured high-resolution images of moving boxes on a conveyor belt, despite ...
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Image Recovery or Image Reconstruction of an Imaging System
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Blurring can degrade images and the point spread function (PSF) can be used to recover them. An example of using inverse PSF to eliminate barcode image degradation is provided. By deducing inverse PSF ...
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Reverse Optical Engineering Case Studies from Avantier
From: Avantier Inc.Description: Reverse engineering is a complex process that can yield significant benefits for businesses facing difficult technical challenges. In this article, we present three case studies that demonstrate the ...
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Green Hydrogen - An energy carrier with potential.
Description: Across industry, electricity, logistics, mobility and built infrastructure sectors: To achieve our ambitious climate targets, we need sustainable energy sources everywhere. Hydrogen is considered an ...
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Why is there a certification for green hydrogen?
Description: TÜV Rheinland Standard H2.21: An independent verification for the documentation of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen fuels. ...
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Intravenous (IV) Filters: Form-Fit-Function
From: ITW MedicalDescription: Intravenous lines deliver fluids from a solution source to the patient, generally providing hydration and life-sustaining medication. In-line IV filters are used for filtering particles and bacteria ...
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An Insider's Checklist for Selecting a Project Partner
Description: In today’s market where transparency, tracking and validation are more important than ever – ensuring that your fluid handling supplier is with you for the long haul makes selecting the ...
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Tips and Tricks for Downloading 3D Models
Description: We provide the CAD data on our website for you through the CADENAS platform. Due to the variety of our products, we offer only a selected range on the corresponding detailed article pages with CAD ...
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Global Manufacturer Experiences Double-Digit Productivity Improvements by Partnering with Experts at Belden's Customer Innovation Center
From: Belden Inc.Description: Through its collaborative Customer Innovation Center, Belden—a leading global supplier of network and digitization solutions—is empowering industrial plants around the world to build solid ...
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Component Price Landscape (CPL)
From: TechInsights Inc.Description: Electronic component prices have fluctuated wildly in recent quarters in light of component supply shortages, panic ordering by OEMs, and inflation concerns. ...
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How Does an AGV Navigate Safely?
From: RedViking Group, LLCDescription: Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) represent the next step in the evolution of the assembly line. AGVs are set to transform manufacturing in the near future. As the name suggests, the operations of AGVs ...
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Supertalls!
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: When the (still) tallest building in my hometown of Syracuse went up in the late 1920's, it was considered a skyscraper. All 21 floors of it. A couple of years later, when the Empire State Building ...
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Navigating the Challenges of Designing for a Multi-Platform Embedded Computing Solution
Description: Modern computing system requirements are anything but simple. Embedded system integrators are tasked with developing packaged solutions that must be highly adaptable to a range of applications and ...
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Waiting for Inspiration to Strike?
Description: Creativity is the process of altering reality. The brain imagines a future different than anything that has existed before and conceptualizes the steps needed to make that future reality. Altering ...
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Design for Manufacturing Case Study - Medical Device Application for AR Headsets
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Shanghai Optics offers custom optical solution services including Design for Manufacturing (DFM). We are proud of our long history of offering custom optical solutions for helping customers improve ...
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Cloud Manufacturing Technology and Applications
From: RedViking Group, LLCDescription: Cloud technology saw dramatic adoption in the past decade. It has seeped into all facets of business and transformed how companies carry out operations. Cloud technology delivers huge scale ...
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7 Reasons Why Companies Fail at Lean Manufacturing
From: RedViking Group, LLCDescription: Manufacturing has always been a competitive sector. But the intensity of competition manufacturers faced in the 1950s pales in comparison to what industry players have to deal with today. Thanks to ...
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Medium Voltage Electric Steam and Hot Water Generators for District Heating
From: ChromaloxDescription: The electrification trend has spread beyond automobiles and is now moving into district heating applications with a focus on eliminating or supplementing fuel fired systems. Many district heating ...
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Design for Manufacturing Case Study
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: A scientific device and instrument company needed to develop an infrared lens with focal length of 40mm and f number of 0.98 for spectral imaging application. The spectral imager was meant to measure ...
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Battery Testing
Description: Batteries have a pivotal societal role, from providing the initial power needed to start automobile engines to acting as a backup electrical source for essential services. As batteries are further ...
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Environmental Simulation Safeties for Battery Testing
Description: The need for higher performing, lower weight batteries has increased as the design and production of electric vehicles and other devices has greatly expanded over recent years. Now more than ever, ...
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How To Choose A Walk-In And Drive-In Test Chamber
Description: To thrive, your product must survive. Years of development, design, and delivery can be undone if your product can't endure extreme climate changes, tolerate intense vibrations, manage mechanical ...
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Halloween: Yet Another Area where Technology has Made Inroads
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: I am continually amazed by the inroads technology has made into all aspects of our lives. As someone who remembers rolling down a car window, and using a phone that - however long the cord - was ...
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Best Practices for EU GDPR Compliance
Description: In the wake of the GDPR, many countries, including the U.S. are beginning to consider adopting the ways of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in order to better protect their citizens. ...
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Bicycle Workshops in the Test: A Defect Rarely Comes Alone
Description: TÜV Rheinland has examined the quality of service in bicycle workshops. Result of the sample: The industry urgently needs to improve this. ...
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GDPR Considerations for IoT Manufacturers and Service Providers
Description: The recently enforced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all organizations offering goods or services or marketing to individuals in the EU, regardless of company size or where the ...
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The Importance of NRTL Testing in Healthcare Facilities
Description: According to OSHA 29 CFR 1910, all electrical equipment used in a workplace is required to be factory-certified or labelled as electrically safe by a Nationally-Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). ...
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Get Ahead of the Top 3 Trends Impacting the Fluid Power Industry in 2022
Description: Manufacturers delivering fluid power solutions face unprecedented challenges today. High demand for new equipment and machinery is being countered by supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and ...
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Tech Advancements Driving the Fluid Power Market Forward
Description: Mobile fluid power is an essential part of the construction, agriculture, mining, and other heavy-duty segments. But although the primary technology is mature, many factors drive change and demand ...
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Silicon Photonics: helping Moore's Law keep up
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Silicon photonics has been around for a while - twenty years now - and is wending its way from being used in data centers and "industrial strength" applications into the consumer realm. ...
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Some Cool New Cooling Technology
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: It's been estimated that, by 2050, there will be 4.5 billion air conditioning units in place around the world, and they'll be responsible for consuming 13 percent or so of all electricity. ...
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There's Always Something More on Moore's Law
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: There's always something more to say on Moore's Law, and several writers are saying it in a series of pieces on EE Times. ...
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Case Study: TÜV Rheinland "Supersizes" Field Evaluation Services for Largest Stadium Display in North America
Description: TÜV Rheinland has field tested and labeled video screens at more than 50 venues, including the big screens in Dallas, TX and at Times Square in New York City ...
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Mechanical Performance of X-Ray Systems.
Description: This paper reviews the requirements for mechanical devices critical for delivering safe amounts of radiation while preserving X-ray image quality ...
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Interview with the New Manager for our Business Line TFP
Description: Umicore: Dear Mr Bracher, why did you choose Umicore MDS, what attracted you most? ...
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Paleo Technology: The Making of Prehistoric Planet
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: The visual effects team designed the dinosaurs on computers, starting with skeletons based on fossil scans, and then adding muscles and skin. ...
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Choosing a Compliance Partner for the Global EV Market
Description: The electric and hybrid vehicle industry is growing rapidly, with every car company and even the appliance company Dyson looking to release their own electric model within the next few years. ...
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Common Problems Found During Field Evaluations
Description: Electrical, building and mechanical inspectors understand that electrical product safety laws protect our homes and our places of work. Manufacturers and employers must work with authorities having ...
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Compliance Challenges with EV Safety Standards
Description: Electric Vehicles (EV) offer many benefits over their gas-powered counterparts, but their market appeal is currently tempered by their higher cost and new safety concerns ...
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Dismantling the High-Voltage Risks of Electric Vehicles
Description: Stronger and longer-lasting batteries in EVs increase the vehicle's market appeal, but the high-voltage energy systems are dangerous and even deadly if not handled correctly. ...
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FAQ's About the ISO 27001 Standard
Description: With an information security management system (ISMS) certified to ISO 27001, a business, its employees, and its stakeholders can all be assured that processes are in place to protect proprietary and ...
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How Can ISO 9001 Improve Your Business?
Description: A quality management systems (QMS) is a formal system that documents process, procedures and responsibilities related to quality policies and helps focus the organization towards customer and ...
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How to Ensure Machinery Safety and Compliance
Description: In the United States, any modifications made to a production line means that the system is no longer the same, and the mark applied by the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) that ...
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How to Prepare for Your Upcoming Remote Audit
Description: Remote audits offer many attractive benefits for companies, including flexibility, online scheduling, digital paperwork, and perhaps most appealing, reduced travel expenses. ...
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ISO 45001: What Is It and Why Should You Transition?
Description: An occupational health & safety system allows a company to undeniably reduce the number of accidents through a systematic approach to aspects of health & safety. ...
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Supply Chain Education Teaches Tech
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: The University of Nebraska at Omaha operates one of the state's few programs dedicated to supply chains. BinMaster level sensors and software are manufactured and developed just an hour away. ...
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Five Steps to Digital Transformation
From: SICKDescription: So you’re ready to tackle a digital transformation project in your facility, but what’s the best way to start? Well, look no further: SICK has your back from beginning to end as a single ...
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With an Eye on the Future
Description: Mobile computing, IoT, 5G, Industry 4.0 and many other digital areas will be a part of us for a long time to come. ...
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Sensors and Software Unite to Streamline the Supply Chain
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Truck driver shortages have been in the international spotlight since the pandemic began. Optimizing their time and truckloads is essential. Learn how sensors and software can do it. ...