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Check Out the Top 5 Maintenance Tips from our Service Department!
From: Environics, Inc.Description: We often receive calls and emails asking about the best way to maintain our mixers and dilutors. There are several important things that you can do to keep your unit running in top shape. They will ...
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Trace Level Monitoring - Ambient Calibration
From: Environics, Inc.Description: More and more, we are talking about trace level ambient monitoring. This monitoring is in line with the measurement objectives of NCORE which is part of the Ambient Monitoring Technology Information ...
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Dryer Applications Guide
Description: Drum Dryer, Flaker and vacuum Dryer Applications ...
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Comparing Three-Phase Power Measurement Instruments
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: Teledyne LeCroy's Motor Drive Analyzer (MDA) provides three-phase power measurements comparable to a power analyzer using its eight 12-bit input channels. This brief summarizes how to correctly ...
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ENERGY AUDIT: BEGIN ACHIEVING LONG-TERM SAVINGS
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is pleased to share with you this energy audit checklist and useful data logging tips learn how to optimize your energy usage and achieve long-term savings. ...
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Radar Measurement Techniques: Characterizing PRI Stagger During Walkoff
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: Accurate time domain measurements such as PRI (pulse repetition interval) stagger during walkoff have not been possible using traditional frequency domain equipment. With the advent of ultra-high ...
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Small Motor Efficiency Measurements Using the Teledyne LeCroy Motor Drive Analyzer
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: More than 90% of motor and motor-drive designs involve small, low-power motors and drives used in household, commercial, or light industrial applications. Such motors need not meet rigorous IEC or ...
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How to Audit a Liquid Paint System
From: SAMES KREMLINDescription: To correct paint system settings that have drifted over time, Sames Kremlin's Steven Romer strongly recommends annual audits. ...
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Testing of Mobile Phone Objective Lenses
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: This application note describes the measurement of a mobile phone objective lens using Shack-Hartmann wavefront metrology. ...
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Accurate ESD Pulse Testing Using Oscilloscopes
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: This application brief discusses the recommended methods and best practices for testing ESD (electrostatic discharge) pulses using real-time oscilloscopes. ...
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EMI Radiated Immunity Testing with Oscilloscopes
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: This application brief discusses the recommended methods, test configurations and best practices for electromagnetic interference radiated immunity testing using real-time oscilloscopes. ...
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Light Sensors: Units, Uses, and How They Work
Description: Before we can properly understand light sensors and how to apply them, we need to be able to quantify light. ...
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Testing Induction Lamps using Digital Oscilloscopes
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: There are many types of lighting devices including the familiar incandescent lamp, LED (light emitting diode), HID (high intensity discharge), fluorescent, and induction lamps. All of them can convert ...
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The Causes of Ground Bounce and How To Avoid It
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: Let's examine the root causes of ground bounce, and also discuss some best design practices for avoiding it altogether. ...
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Mainstream Packaging Transport Materials
Description: The most typical and the most commonly used is fragile packaging corrugated carton. Part of the big and heavy fragile using honeycomb cardboard boxes, part of the lighter or itself high compressive ...
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Useful formulas for RF related conversions
From: A.H. Systems Inc.Description: Typical EMC Related Formulas ...
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Testing. One, Two, Three Testing
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: There was an interesting article by Anil Khitolia on EDN a few weeks ago on LTE Stress Testing. He started out with a fast fact that I found pretty shocking - a claim that 15-20% of smartphones are ...
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Ten Software Tips for Hardware Developers
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Earlier this year, I saw an excellent article by Jacob Beningo on EDN that provided a list of software tips for hardware engineers ...
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Great People in Electrical Engineering
From: Remke IndustriesDescription: People Who Helped Power the World The names of important electrical units like Volts, Amps and Ohms weren't pulled out of the sky, they are named after the important people who discovered them! ...
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Foam Test Standard
Description: Sponge/foam is widely used in various industries, and the detection of sponges involves some international standards. ...
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Determination of Flouride Content in Powders
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Fluorides are used in many industrial processes, of which the production of hydrochloric acid and smelting are two examples. It is important to regulate these processes, so that the yield of product ...
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Determination of Oil and Moisture Content in Fish Feed
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Fish feed manufacturers produce pellets that vary in size, oil content (from 5 to 40%) and moisture (usually less than 10%). Measuring the oil and moisture content is essential for quality control to ...
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Determination of Oil in Wax
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Although wax was originally treated as a waste product by the oil refining industry, it is now widely used in manufacturing because of its specific mechanical and physical properties (flexibility, ...
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Determination of Total Fat Content in Chocolate and other Cocoa Derivatives
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Cocoa beans are processed to extract cocoa liquor and cocoa butter, both major ingredients of dark and milk chocolate. Cocoa beans are roasted, separated from their shell and cracked into nib. Nib is ...
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Determination of Xylene Solubles in Polypropylene
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Xylene solubles' (XS) is a historically established term denoting the percentage of soluble species in polypropylene homo- and co-polymers. In practice, this measurement is widely used for product ...
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Measurement of Fluoride Content in Toothpaste
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Modern toothpastes are designed to do more than just clean teeth. Hence, they contain many additives, either for health or for cosmetic reasons, such as components to prevent tooth decay, colorants, ...
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Measurement of Oil and Fat Content in Animal Feed without Drying
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Fat content is an important nutritional and quality control parameter in the manufacture of animal feed, therefore a fast and reliable measurement is required for process optimisation. Nuclear ...
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Measurement of Oil and Water in Seeds According to ISO 10565
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Accurate and fast determination of oil and water content in oilseeds is important to breeders, growers and buyers for determining the commercial value of crops such as rape (canola), sunflower, ...
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Measurement of Oil Content in Dried Snack Food
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Measuring the oil content of dried snack foods is essential for quality control to ensure that the products meet their nutritional values specifications. The amount of oil used is also important in ...
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Measurement of Oil Content in Jatropha Curcas Seeds
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Measuring the oil content of Jatropha seeds is important for two reasons: firstly, for non-destructive measurement of single seeds, to select high oil content specimens for propagation, secondly, for ...
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Measurement of Wax Content in Petroleum Products
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: Wax (paraffin) content is an important characteristic affecting the physical properties of petroleum products, in particular their viscosity and setting temperature. This not only affects their ...
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Standard Method for Hydrogen Content in Fuels (ASTM D7171-16)
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: The hydrogen content of aviation fuel is an important parameter as it determines the combustion properties of the fuel. Traditional methods such as smoke point, smoke volatility index and luminometer ...
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AWG Size to Inches
From: Conax TechnologiesDescription: AWG Size to Inches ...
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Frequency Up-Conversion for Arbitrary Waveform Generators
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Many of today's approaches to build a quantum computer require the reliable generation of arbitrary microwave signals in the 4.5 to 9 GHz regime for qubit manipulation and readout. While signal ...
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Hall Effect for Sensing and Materials Characterization
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Since the discovery of the Hall effect in 1879 by Edwin Hall, it has been widely applied in measurements, particularly in materials characterization and sensing. Today it is being used to characterize ...
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Interferometer Stabilization with Linear Phase Control Made Easy
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: This application note explains how to use the Zurich Instruments MFLI, a 500 kHz/5MHz Lock-in Amplifier, to measure, stabilize and control the relative distance of two interferometer paths to ...
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Runtime Monitoring Using a dataTaker Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In our latest Technical Article, CAS DataLoggers is here to outline how to configure a Series 3 dataTaker DT8x Data logger for runtime monitoring. ...
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Connecting to Our Cars: Molex Case Study
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Learn how one company is helping automakers connect people with their cars, using Radient colorimeters to support the development of illuminated USB connectivity modules. With the ProMetric® I ...
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Automation Interfaces of Copper Mountain Technologies' Network Analyzers
Description: Copper Mountain Technologies' VNAs can be readily automated and there are numerous options for users who wish to do so. To help illustrate the different automation methods and interfaces available, ...
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Guide to VNA Automation in MATLAB Using the TCP Interface
Description: Usually, Copper Mountain Technologies instruments are locally automated on the same Windows-based PC to which the instrument is connected and the VNA control software is installed. Such functionality ...
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Choosing contract services for proactive instrumentation maintenance
Description: How after-sale services help ease the maintenance burden for water and wastewater treatment plants ...
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Bursting Strength Test Standard
Description: The bursting strength testing machine is an internationally-used testing instrument widely used in packaging materials. It is mainly used to measure various paperboard and single-layer and multi-layer ...
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Packages Drop Testing
Description: The drop test, also known as the “package drop test machine�, is used to simulate the different edges, angles and faces of the product when it is dropped on the ground at different heights to ...
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Principles of lock-in detection and the state of the art
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Lock-in amplifiers were invented in the 1930's and commercialized in the mid 20th century as electrical instruments capable of extracting signal amplitudes and phases in extremely noisy environments. ...
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Superconducting Qubit Characterization
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Quantum computing promises an advance in numerical processing power over classical computing by exploiting quantum physical phenomena. Present day experimental work in this field focuses on improving ...
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What Do Industrial Engineers Need to Know About Functional Safety
From: Sensata TechnologiesDescription: How Functional Safety can improve product reliability, reduce manufacturing downtime and expand your market. -By Scott Orlosky and Jean-Marc Hubsch, Sensata Technologies Engineers designing systems ...
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Calibrating Toroidal Conductivity Sensors
Description: A toroidal conductivity sensor consists of two wire wound toroids encased in a plastic body. When an alternating voltage is applied to one of the toroids, it induces an ionic current in the solution ...
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Metal Beverage, Food and Aerosol Can Coat Developments
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Drink a can of your favorite beverage, spray a little touch up paint to your outdoor furniture, or open a can of food for yourself or your pet. Chances are a metal container was in your hand 50% or ...
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Universal Testing Machine Working Principle
Description: Universal testing machine, a material testing machine integrating tensile, bending, compression, shearing, ring stiffness and other functions. It is mainly used for the mechanical properties test of ...
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Common Antenna Terms and Definitions
From: A.H. Systems Inc.Description: Antenna: An antenna is a device that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves are often referred to as radio waves. Most antennas are resonant devices, which operate ...
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dBm Volts Watts Conversion
From: A.H. Systems Inc.Description: Conversion link - dBm is defined as power ratio in decibel (dB) referenced to one milliwatt (mW). It is an abbreviation for dB with respect to 1 mW and the "m" in dBm stands for milliwatt. ...
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Field Intensity Calculation
From: A.H. Systems Inc.Description: Below is a calculation tool to help determining the actual field intensity or power density at a given distance ...
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Magnetic Field Conversions
From: A.H. Systems Inc.Description: Here is our easy to use conversion tables for common magnetic field measurement units. With magnetic field testing sometimes it becomes necessary to convert from one unit of measure to another. This ...
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Rubber Test Item - Rubber Test / Plastic Test
Description: Rubber is widely used in daily life have a lot of rubber for our services, through wearing by urban and rural residents, it is must be a kind of consumption is very big, with a rubber are in play its ...
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5 Ways to Improve Measurement Accuracy with the Magna-Mike 8600 Thickness Gage
From: Olympus America, Inc.Description: The Magna-Mike® portable Hall effect thickness gage is used to measure the thickness of plastic containers and other nonferrous materials. Unlike our other thickness gages, the Magna-Mike gage ...
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Salt Spray Test
Description: The salt spray test is an environmental test that mainly uses the simulated salt spray environmental conditions created by salt spray test equipment to assess the corrosion resistance of a product or ...
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Lipstick
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Evaluation of the hardness of lipsticks by penetration with a 2 mm needle probe. ...
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Aging Testing
Description: Accelerated Aging Test,Aging Test Chamber ...
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Ground Cinnamon
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Determination of powder flow characteristics of ground cinnamon. ...
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Metaldetector allows economic processing of regenerated material
From: Sesotec GmbHDescription: In the production of plastic parts for industrial electronics and automotive components, whether in small series with less than 500 parts per year or with annual production volumes of several million ...
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The influence of intuitive operation on the total cost of ownership
From: Sesotec GmbHDescription: Investments in machines and systems for the protection against contaminants and for metal detection in the food industry for many years have an influence on a factory's internal processes and on its ...
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Making Good Dough
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Dough is the staple of the bakery world. Producing "good" dough consistently in manufacturing is the challenge. Test methods have arisen that standardize how dough is evaluated for acceptability using ...
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Food Package Testing - Technologies & an Overview
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: There are many variations on the need to test food packaging, such as the degree of permeability of the package and the strength of the seal to withstand transport and storage stresses. Package ...
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Flow Meter Dos and Don'ts with Ammonia
From: Sierra Instruments, Inc.Description: Editor's Note: This post was originally published on April 25, 2012. Due to its popularity and continued questions on this issue, we updated the post on 2/2/2018. We often have engineers and ...
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Case Study - Customized Tests Help Supplier Validate Military Hardware
From: Cincinnati Sub-ZeroDescription: The process required custom robotics and mixturing in an extremely compressed timeframe ...
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Comprehensive Product Design Testing for High-tech Automotive Components
From: Cincinnati Sub-ZeroDescription: In a hotly pursued, global marketplace, the availability of superior automobile components unquestionably can determine a car's adoption viability. Proven, certified, and highly customized product ...
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Case Study: Flow Testing of Trocar Assemblies
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Problem/Goal: A company that manufactures a variety of trocar assembly configurations needed a precise method of performing a flow test that would be adaptable to various barrel diameters and lengths. ...
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CASE STUDY: Leak & Flow Testing Multi-Lumen Catheters
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Problem/Goal: A medical device company manufactures a variety of catheter configurations for which they require high-resolution, accurate repeatable and reliable leak and flow test results. Testing ...
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Case Study: Leak Test for Endoscope Irrigated Blade Assembly
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Problem/Goal: A medical device company manufactures an irrigated blade assembly for an endoscope which requires accurate repeatable leak test results. The test fixture must also have the flexibility ...
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Case Study: Non-destructive Vacuum Decay Chamber Test - Blister Packs
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Problem/Goal: The customer was looking for a method to confirm the leak integrity of medical dispenser blister packs without destroying the package and/or contaminating the contents. Read about the ...
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Middle East State Owned Utility Conpany Fault Prevented
From: IRISS, Inc.Description: The Middle East based State Owned Utility company use the IRISS Sonus PD instrument to test for Partial Discharge in their medium voltage Switchgear and accessories. In March 2014, high levels of ...
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Calibrating for Absolute Orientation
Description: The latest Slam Stick release has an IMU capable of recording the device's orientation relative to either its initial orientation (relative orientation), or to relative to magnetic north (absolute ...
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Quaternions for Orientation
Description: Absolute vs Relative Direction ...
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SAM: Another Brick in the Wall with Automation
From: PHOENIX CONTACT USADescription: Construction Robotics, a start-up company from Victor, N.Y., was founded in 2007 with the goal of bringing automation technology to on-site construction. The company's flagship product is the ...
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Density - Who Cares? Maybe You Should.
Description: Density measurement is used a an indication of what is happening in a process. Density analysis multiple applications in wide range of industries. How Come? ...
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Effect of Sample Chamber to Reference Chamber Volume Ratio Effect on Accuracy of Gas Pycnometry Measurements
From: Quantachrome InstrumentsDescription: One of the most significant contributors to uncertainty in gas pycnometry measurements comes from the ratio between the volumes of the empty space within the sample chamber and the reference chamber. ...
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Basics of Medical Package Testing
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: The release of a terminally sterilized medical device or product to the marketplace is the culmination of monumental design and development effort. Efficient, effective and safe usage characteristics ...
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Principles of Operation For Force-Decay Leak Testing of Flexible Packages
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Non-destructive leak testing for flexible packages can be accomplished by several methods that utilize various properties of the package form and materials. Techniques include vacuum bubble test, ...
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Understanding Leaks in Products and Packages
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Simply and directly, a leak is a hole or a path through which the package contents may escape, or through which ambient materials from the environment may enter. There are holes in everything; the ...
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What is a pressure/vacuum decay test?
From: TM Electronics, Inc.Description: Pressure decay testing measures the change in pressure between atmospheric pressure and your pressurized test sample. Unlike some other current methods of leak testing, this test method yields ...
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Application Note: ABB Los Gatos Research Triple Isotope Water Analyzer (TIWA)
Description: The Isotope Hydrology Laboratory of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently organized a water isotope inter-comparison (WICO) for international laboratory performance assessment of ...
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WirelessHART® networks: 7 myths that cloud their consideration for process control Measurement made easy
Description: Misinformation about WirelessHART networks prevails among many instrument engineers in the process industries. This article attempts to set the record straight by debunking 7 myths about these ...
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What is an IP Rating?
From: Progressive AutomationsDescription: Some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from our customers have to do with IP ratings. What is an IP rating? What does it mean? How does the rating system work? That is why we wrote ...
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How can 2D & 3D X-ray Imaging Help with Additive Manufacturing?
From: North Star Imaging, Inc.Description: Additive manufacturing (AM), sometimes referred to as 3D printing, is believed to be one of the greatest opportunities of our era and has the potential to completely change many business landscapes in ...
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What is Digital Radiography?
From: North Star Imaging, Inc.Description: Digital Radiography, or DR for short, is a 2D X-ray inspection method using a digital X-ray detector in place of X-ray film. DR allows for real-time X-ray inspection of your part or object - no more ...
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Viscosity Measurement: So Easy, Yet So Difficult
Description: Temperature control is the single most important parameter for obtaining accurate and precise kinematic viscosity measurements. This is especially true for petroleum products as their rate of ...
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Cheese Puffs
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Evaluation of the hardness of cheese puffs by bulk compression using an Ottawa Cell. Puffed corn snacks are very popular with many interesting variations and improvements made over the years. ...
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Apple Juice
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Apple juice is consumed as a beverage. ...
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Tackling EMC Emissions Earlier in the Design Process Proves Advantageous
Description: Ensuring that hardware conforms with the relevant electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations is an important part of any electronic design project. As initially all the focus tends to be on ...
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Baby Formula
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Provides a nutritional supplement for babies up to 12 months old. ...
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This shrouded plug doesn't fit
From: E-Z-HOOKDescription: Recently a Power Company approached us with certain requirements for two different test lead options. Their field technicians had various Fluke meters, some accepting shrouded plug and some that did ...
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Application Note: Almonds
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Evaluation of the hardness of almonds using a craft knife blade. ...
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Application Note: Eye Pencil
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: The hardness of an eye pencil tip is important; the texture of the eyeliner should be such that upon application, it smoothly glides along effortlessly enabling ultimate control and flexibility. The ...
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Fluorescence Depolarization Measurement of Liposomes
From: JASCODescription: Fluorescence depolarization or fluorescence anisotropy can be observed when a fluorophore emits light of different intensities depending on the axes of polarization. When a molecule is excited by the ...
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Probe Maintenance
Description: Test probes used in production testing will eventually get dirty enough to cause contact problems. The following steps will eliminate contact problems caused by dirty probes. ...
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Chemical Additives: Applications and Analytical Methods
From: Anton PaarDescription: Specialty chemicals, or chemical additives, are rapidly becoming a trillion dollar industry and are used in a wide range of industrial sectors, including energy, cosmetics, detergents, food, ...
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Paper Mill Saves Budget Dollars With IR Window Program
From: IRISS, Inc.Description: A paper mill in South Carolina had a very successful infrared inspection program that management wanted to expand. However, the requirements of NFPA 70E were causing them to re-think their strategy ...
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Application Note: Toothpaste Firmness
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Comparison of toothpaste firmness / "force to extrude" of two toothpaste formulations.. ...
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Powder Analysis Application Note: Baby Formula
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Provides a nutritional supplement for babies up to 12 months old. ...
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Application Note: Fromage Frais
From: AMETEK BrookfieldDescription: Evaluation of the firmness and consistencies of Fromage Frais by penetration using a cylinder probe. ...