Engineering and Technical Services Reference Materials

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Description: Remote audits offer many attractive benefits for companies, including flexibility, online scheduling, digital paperwork, and perhaps most appealing, reduced travel expenses. ...

Description: An important standard which gets too little attention is ISO 13849 part 2, which defines the validation process for the safety functions incorporated into the machine. This article summarizes the ...

Description: The University of Nebraska at Omaha operates one of the state’s few programs dedicated to supply chain. Steve Schulz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, said ...

Description: 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 ...

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. ...

Description: Learn more about U.S. and European Union restrictions and regulations on hazardous substances with RoHS, REACH, and other approvals and compliances. ...

Description: Truck driver shortages have been in the international spotlight since the pandemic began. The costs, and societal and supply impact have been widely publicised with examples including the United ...

Description: It may be home to the Seattle Kraken (NHL’s newest franchise) and the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, but Climate Pledge Arena also represents something much bigger within the world of sports and ...

Description: In late 1971, Intel brought out the first microprocessor. A few months later, EE Times - long a go-to for news and insights on the semi-conductor world, embedded systems, AI, and other trends - ...

Description: Whether it's manufacturing industrial equipment or miniature electric devices, customers want the products they buy to function reliably. Premature failure can lead to costly recalls and loss in ...

Description: What is mass flow and what is volumetric flow? What are their differences? Learn how to calculate volumetric flow rate to mass flow rate and vice versa. ...

Description: Any engineer will have heard of Python by this stage. But if you are a typical mechanical engineer, it's unlikely you and your team will be using Python for your data analysis ...

Description: Gartner has an interesting way of looking at emerging technologies. In their Hype Cycle, they place new technologies along a somewhat amusing continuum that extends from the inception of a technology ...

Description: In recent times, supply chain issues have hit many industries, leading to long lead times and unsatisfied customers. One way of combatting this is through vertical integration. Vertical integration is ...

Description: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a preeminent player among pharmaceutical companies, and maintains a significant presence in more than 93 countries worldwide. A leader in the discovery of therapeutic ...

Description: In my last post, I covered the first four items on the World Economics Forum's list of major technological trends of the past decade - technologies that have "changed the world." Here I'll summarize ...

Description: We’ve asked this question before: What does “sustainability” mean when it comes to data centers? The industry has different definitions—and every organization has its own ...

Description: To be successful in increasingly competitive markets, companies must be ready and able to seize opportunities when they arise. That’s exactly what Teletronics Technology Corporation of Newton, ...

Description: Manufacturing in Space - It's a thing and there are several companies now working to figure out the complexities and solve the challenges of manufacturing and assembling products in low-earth orbit ...

Description: The Stability Center of Excellence, which is 17,000 square feet in size, triples the company’s previous stability storage capacity. The center is fully validated and operational. When designing ...

Description: Engineering large CFRP components requires high precision in the heat treatment temperature controls to ensure the finished parts have the correct material properties ...

Description: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore), known for its scientific approach to product development and ensuring products perform as promised in the intended end use, advanced its product testing ...

Description: An overview of US and Canadian standards for food industry ...

Description: I posted about celebrating the Fourth a few years back, but I thought it was a topic that's worth revisiting. So - thanks to an article by Kevin Clemens I found on DesignNews - here goes with Kevin's ...

Description: When I think of birding, I picture someone with binoculars around their neck, a field guide to birds in their hand, and a birdcall in their pocket. As with so many aspects of life, technology now ...

Description: With the ever-expanding 3D printing industry, client ensures they will be in market compliance around the world ...

Description: Moore Industries chose TÜV Rheinland as a source for international safety approval due to the company’s strong quality reputation and recognition as a globally accepted certifying body. ...

Description: The N5U team underwent on-site training on the data retrieval methods using TVA QA legacy document archives ...

Description: Of late, we've been focusing so much on stories around technology and the pandemic, that I ended up putting EE Times' Silicon 100: The Class of 2020 on the backburner. But I finally got the ...

Description: MarShield is proud to announce the launch of its Specifiers and Architects Resource Hub. The hub providers specifiers, architects, and engineers have easy access to MarShield product information, ...

Description: In today's blog post, we are going to have a bit of fun using video to learn more about contact angles. We will show you a contact angle and will ask you to "guess" the contact angle measurement. The ...

Description: 5G allows for unparalleled cellular connectivity and speed. One reason is the use of higher frequencies, where there are larger chunks of contiguous spectrum available to provide wider bandwidth and ...

Description: With skilled labor shortages, economic pressure, rising material costs, and the urgent need to reduce climate impact, the construction industry is ripe for disruption. One promising way to shake ...

Description: Cincinnati, OH - BTG Labs, the industry leader in industrial cleaning, surface treatment, and adhesion process control, has earned ISO 9001:2015 Certification. Internationally recognized as the ...

Description: Thanks to the pandemic, we missed out last year on the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Mayflower left port in September 1620 and ...

Description: Wireless connections: the growth is nothing short of explosive ...

Description: Each year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of the most important technologies on the scene. This year, they lead off with what, by anyone's reckoning, has to be THE technology of the year, ...

Description: Here's a summary of the final five. ...

Description: Sensors in humans aren't all that new. They've been used in devices like pacemakers for years. And while it's not widely in practice, humans can get microchipped in the same way that they chip their ...

Description: Even if you haven't been directly impacted - at least not yet - if you're reading this post, you're most likely aware of the current chip shortage. And, if nothing else, you're most likely to have ...

Description: As the market for collaborative robots expands, the industry faces challenges in developing safety regulations as well as some other key areas. ...

Description: When human workers have to social distance, what are robotics bringing to the table? ...

Description: Automate 2019: We learn how TUV Rheinland inspects the force generated during collaborative robot collisions. ...

Description: Test Engineering Manager Ryan Braman talks about the push to develop safety standards for heavy-duty mobile robots, and where the market might go from here. ...

Description: Start-ups must consider regulatory regulations from the start of design, which rarely happens. A wonderful product doesn't sell very well if many companies will not purchase because they to not meet ...

Description: Nature is miraculous. Living entities, be they plants, animals, marine life or humans, can perform an amazing array of complex tasks. As scientists, inventors, and engineers, we at BTG Labs take ...

Description: With the world watching via live stream, the Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18. Maneuvering down amongst the Martian atmosphere, the Mars 2020 Spacecraft deposited the rover on the planet ...

Description: When manufacturing companies take adhesion seriously it can have a remarkable effect on their ability to achieve their business goals. The key is to take a strategic look at adhesion processes early ...

Description: When it comes down to it, this is another purely semantic question much like the one we dealt with in another article comparing the terms "surface tension" and "surface energy." Surface free energy is ...

Description: Using adhesives in manufacturing is becoming increasingly common for building everything from massive machines to everyday tech devices. But companies' reliance on the science of adhesion to make sure ...

Description: An oil refinery in Turkey needed to revalidate the inline flow meters in the delayed coker unit on the cold/hot feed lines. ...

Description: Wind is a big part of that grid, and accounts for a bit under one-quarter of Texas energy use. The adverse weather conditions have put a crimp in the wind supply, as turbines have frozen up, but wind ...

Description: "The customers who come to Senseeker are also often looking for other specialist electronics, and that's where Critical Link fits in. They have a reputation for quality, and a long track record of ...

Description: As I suspect is true of many folks, since the pandemic hit, I've been watching more TV than is my norm. So I'm grateful that there are so many options to choose from - you really can't ever say that ...

Description: Hockey, like most other sports, has been introducing increasingly sophisticated tracking technology for a number of years now, and there've been pucks in play with some level of "intelligence" since ...

Description: A couple of weeks ago, CES2021 was held. This is the mega consumer electronics show (that's where the CES comes from) held annually in Las Vegas. It's attended by 100,000 folks, and the exhibits ...

Description: It's still not too late to take a look at the technology trends for the new year. ...

Description: Last month, I did a post entitled "There's a lot happening on the FPGA front." As a shop that does an extensive amount of work with FPGAs, we're always interested to hear talk about even more stuff ...

Description: It's probably safe to say that most apps being developed these days are connected - they're part of the Internet of Things. To some extent, a lot of IoT development has been the Wild West in terms of ...

Description: It was the title of the article on EE Journal that caught my eye: "FPGAs Race for the Bottom," which rounds up recent FPGA releases. Writer Kevin Morris claims this occur when the "bleary eyed ...

Description: As the year ends, I always find it interesting to look back at what's happened during the past year in terms of technology. While I was wandering around looking for ideas, I came across an article by ...

Description: Powder coating is a widely used painting and coating technique to create protective and aesthetic barriers on products from vending machines at municipal pools to washers and dryers, or cars sitting ...

Description: The pathway to zero defect manufacturing through implementation of quality control procedures is found right there in the name. Quality control requires the control of variables to ensure quality ...

Description: HOMETOWN SHREDDER GROWS WITH VECOPLAN SHRED TRUCKS ...

Description: WHAT IS MOBILE SHREDDING? ...

Description: The great idea to help save the aerospace industry is: For manufacturers to cut costs and remain resilient, they must employ surface quality management programs that offer high-resolution, data-rich, ...

Description: In a recent study conducted by Instrumental, the top ten most common manufacturing defects were examined. The number one defect that manufacturers fight against is a deficiency in glue. It's a simple ...

Description: Even though coming to the end of 2020 has not at all meant the end of the impact of Covid-19, manufacturers are pushing forward to make sure 2021 is not marred by the setbacks of this year. This has ...

Description: Wire bonding and sintering are critical processes involved in the manufacture of a majority of electronic devices. These processes are used to connect silicon chips, integrated circuits (ICs), and ...

Description: If you've been in a grocery, pharmacy, or big box store recently - or lined up outside a Starbucks - you've seen the duct-taped X's telling you where to stand to keep your social distance from the ...

Description: Over the summer, EDN Aspencore published a series of articles on how the electronics industry has responded to the COVID pandemic. In term, I'm doing a series of blog posts summarizing these articles. ...

Description: It seems that there's always a hacking story in the news, the most recent being a hack of Twitter accounts which you've likely read about. Hackers had managed to con a couple of Twitter employees into ...

Description: When it comes to Active Driving Assistance, we're still in the early development stage. So proceed with caution. ...

Description: Remember mood rings? They were a 70's fad that recycles every once in a while. The rings contained liquid crystal, which changes colors when the temperature of your finger changed. Red means you're ...

Description: Since the pandemic hit our shores earlier this year, we've been keeping our eye out for ways in which the electronics industry has responded. Several of our earlier posts have addressed this. In Tech ...

Description: Two weeks ago, we kicked off a set of blog posts focused on a series of articles from EDN/AspenCore on how the electronics industry has been responding to the pandemic. (These articles appeared in EE ...

Description: Summary of EDN Aspencore's series of interesting and informative articles on the response that the electronics industry has been making to the coronavirus crisis. ...

Description: Somewhat lost in all the pandemic and political news is NASA's launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (nickname: Percy), which on July 30th headed off on its seven-month trip to the Red Planet, ...

Description: I'm always bookmarking articles of interest, and in going through my backlog, I just came across one on underwater energy harvesting that appeared in EETimes this past February. (And speaking of ...

Description: When the pandemic hit, I'm sure I wasn't alone in making sure I knew where the thermometer was, replacing the battery on the pulse oximeter, and checking the expiration dates on the cold medicine in ...

Description: Enterprise manufacturing operations are made up of interlocking, overlapping and critically interdependent processes. Each process in this symbiotic web consists of a series of steps that are only ...

Description: Domain Control Units - or DCUs - are a breakthrough on the path towards integrated systems, assisting the driver in his search for a smooth and safe ride. ...

Description: Instrumentation Technologies helped the Xylon team solve design issues on their data logging product, allowing them to deliver to their end customer on time. Our team identified the core problem and ...

Description: Manufacturers are always looking to create stronger, more durable, more reliable and, in the automotive and aerospace sectors, lightweight products. In this pursuit they've often upgraded and swapped ...

Description: Since COVID-19 has reshaped the economic landscape for the foreseeable future and there are many questions about how to safely and effectively respond to it, now is a good time for manufacturers to ...

Description: Many manufacturers have a dual performance concern when their products are out there in the world being used in whatever capacity they were designed for. These parallel interests are: how to maintain ...

Description: This is part one of a two-part series explaining the finer points of BTG Labs' approach to helping companies build reliability into their cleaning and adhesion processes through consultation and ...

Description: In order to make sure that your products are compliant with regulations we help you plan your device from the idea onwards. The sooner in the development process, we start planning, the more certain ...

Description: VECOPLAN TECHNOLOGY PRE-TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR PELLETIZING ...

Description: An exciting development is taking place to make surface quality and cleanliness inspection technology more available to all manufacturers. We have collaborated with ASTM International and other ...

Description: I know, I know. There's plenty of evidence that Microsoft is more than a software company, even if old guys like me who remember when Windows was just becoming a force, and when everyone was beginning ...

Description: Whenever a new year rolls around, I always like to look back - and look forward. I did some looking back on 2019 in my Thanksgiving post, so now I'm taking a look forward with a roundup of some of the ...