Quality Assurance, Test and Compliance Software Reference Materials

Description: Asset operators are often tempted to demand absolute certainty, seeking a single, deterministic date of failure from predictive technologies. However, real-world asset degradation is fundamentally ...

Description: Modern data centers operate under stringent "five-nines" (99.999%) uptime requirements, which means actual operational failures are extremely rare. This lack of failure data makes traditional ...

Description: The central challenge in automated anomaly detection is managing the tension between sensitivity and reliability. If the algorithm is too sensitive, operators experience alert fatigue due to false ...

Description: Reliability testing provides engineers with a systematic way to evaluate how products perform under real-world and accelerated stress conditions before they reach customers. By combining ...

Description: Earthquakes are characterized by sudden onset and high destructive potential, posing significant risks to buildings, mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems, and critical infrastructure. Ensuring ...

Description: Modern mechanical and electromechanical systems increasingly operate under complex, multi-directional vibration environments. Single-axis vibration testing, while effective for basic qualification, is ...

Description: Boundary conditions play a critical role in the dynamic behavior of automotive driveline components. This study presents an experimental modal analysis of a passenger vehicle drive shaft using impact ...

Description: Backlit panels in aircraft cockpits and vehicle dashboards provide critical information for operators. Illuminated controls and instrumentation, gauges, characters, symbols, and shapes must be clearly ...

Description: Technology innovations in materials testing aren’t just providing better data analytics, they are also providing improved testing efficiencies. In an industry predicated on long-standing ...

Description: Quality control is crucial in the food industry. Monitoring the product's nutritive property protects and increases a brand's reputation. Fat content is one of the properties consumers look at when ...

Description: Learn how liquid lenses provide faster, lighter, and more robust focus options for applications from cameras to AR/VR headsets. ...

Description: The progression from LCD technology toward OLED and newer miniLEDs and microLEDs has resulted in smaller pixels, while the pursuit of contrast demands pixels with brighter brights and blacker blacks. ...

Description: First proposed in the early 1920's, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithms are the gold standard in industrial control systems design and optimization. Almost all industrial automatic ...

Description: Ushering out 2020, Radiant takes a look at how the unusual events of this year have reshaped the landscape of the consumer electronics, display, and lighting industries. ...

Description: 2020 has brought some unexpected shifts in the display market, increasing demand for laptops and home screens, while causing a dip in the smartphone sales while many retail outlets have been ...

Description: Backlit symbols are used on airplanes and in automobiles to ensure visibility even when a vehicle is operated in dark ambient light conditions. Vision Inspection Pack (VIP) is a new software add-on to ...

Description: Validation and verification are inextricable from product development and process design for the manufacturing of medical devices. To satisfy regulatory standards, reduce risk, create efficiencies and ...

Description: Automobiles are getting smarter with new driver assistance systems that help us back up, park, avoid collisions, and more. Automotive headlights are also getting smarter, as sensor systems combine ...

Description: Welcome to GL Communications' latest newsletter providing information and insight into our Voice Quality Analyzer, which is now enhanced to support Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis ...

Description: The ultimate measure of display's performance is how it appears to a human viewer. While all of the typical electronic display metrics-ppi, refresh rate, luminance, pixel pitch, etc.-are informative, ...

Description: Welcome to the September 2019 issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing insight into our latest product release, MAPS™ Central Office Switching Simulator - which provides a single ...

Description: Welcome to another August 2019 issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing insight into our feature-rich PacketScan™ software, a comprehensive IP Analyzer, with enhancements  for wire-speed ...

Description: Welcome to another issue of GL Communications' newsletter providing information on our latest Multi-Link Frame Relay Emulation (MFR) software based on client-server architecture over GL's field proven ...

Description: I've been working in test & measurement industry for a few years now and people often ask me why we sell data acquisition systems at 1000+ USD per measurement channel when a regular smartphone ...

Description: To measure pixel-dense displays and individual emissive elements, Radiant provides a specially designed lens option: our Microscope Lens. Designed for high-resolution imaging of small light source and ...

Description: The idea behind inkjet OLED printing is essentially the same: nozzles deposit a precise amount of material onto a substrate such as glass or film to build up the pixels of a display. OLED inkjet ...

Description: Moiré is especially common when capturing an image of a television, computer, or other screen, where the frequency of the pixelated pattern on the screen is different from the frequency of the pixels ...

Description: Blue light has been getting some attention in popular news lately regarding the potential negative effects of exposure to humans. The widespread adoption of phosphor-coated white LEDs (which encompass ...

Description: Welcome to another April issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing information and insight into our T1 E1 Protocol Analyzer software supporting legacy protocols (CAS - MFCR2, E&M, SS1/SS4, SS5) ...

Description: As OLED production ramps up around the globe, a critical success factor for the technology is the ability to inspect and qualify these displays to ensure visual performance and quality. When a quality ...

Description: Welcome to our August 2018 issue of GL's Newsletter providing information and insight into our new call quality monitoring and audio quality testing in the large contact centers across a wide variety ...

Description: In December 2018, Radiant released a new software module (a package of application-specific software tests and parameters from our TrueTest™ Software) that can evaluate all visual aspects of HUD ...

Description: Radiant Product Manager Shannon Roberts demonstrates just a few of the different tests and features available for backlit symbol testing in our software packages. ...

Description: Radiant TrueTest Software offers several advantages for testing to the DFF (German Flat Panel Display Forum) Black Mura standard. Read this technical note for a method that automates testing to Black ...

Description: Photometry-based assembly verification performs better than typical machine vision or human inspectors when it comes to catching subtle defects in complex electromechanical assemblies, helping ...

Description: The Radiant Vision Systems solution for OLED inspection and correction helps manufacturers of OLED devices improve product quality and yield. A ProMetric® imaging colorimeter or photometer ...

Description: This paper describes precise geometric, optical, and software parameters of a sparkle measurement method, which has been proven to match human visual perception of display quality with repeatable ...

Description: The automotive industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world. In order to keep up with the increasingly strict safety standards, manufacturers are in need of equipment with higher ...

Description: When it comes to inspecting the accuracy and uniformity of light-emitting symbols on an instrument panel, manufacturers are faced with a small quality control nightmare. Is it possible to ensure the ...

Description: For process manufacturers today, having a reliable, seamlessly integrated set of IT systems across the plant, or across multiple sites, is critical to business efficiency, profitability and growth. ...

Description: Predictive Maintenance determines if your machinery is operating efficiently and if problems can be expected in the future. It tells you when to expect downtime without disrupting the operation of the ...