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Monitor Tanks, Pressure, and Truckloads with Bincloud®
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: BinCloud® takes your inventory in bins, tanks, or silos and organizes it in one simple software. It does away with climbing vessels, manual measurements, and spreadsheets. Instead, get one log ...
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1, 2 or 3 Making Sense of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Tiers
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: ERP software solutions can be broadly categorized into ?"Tiers." Before you dive too deeply into research on particular ERP solutions, it's helpful to know which category of ERP is most likely to fit ...
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16 No-Brainer Warehouse Safety Tips a Distribution Business Should Implement
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: For warehouses looking for ways to optimize their safety practices, it pays to start by taking a look at the basics first. These 16 tips are a part of established warehouse best practices - yet a ...
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7 Ways Inventory Tracking has Changed in Modern Warehousing
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: Accurately tracking and maintaining inventory has long been one of the major challenges for warehouses and distribution centers. And as eCommerce has increased in importance, so has warehousing. That ...
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Carbon Neutrality Challenges in Manufacturing
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: Even the world's biggest manufacturers have admitted that climate change poses an enormous threat to human flourishing and are now taking steps to fulfill their duties to the planet. But the only ...
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Cloud-Hosted ERP Protects Manufacturers from Pandemic Jolts
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: If you implemented a new ERP system within the last 10 years, you've probably considered the benefit of on-premise vs. Cloud hosting. However, your decision to go with one hosting model or the other ...
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How is the Organic Food Industry Regulated
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: Organic food is incredibly popular, and it's making many businesses incredibly successful. The farmers and food manufacturers who have overcome the challenges of organic food production have found a ...
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How to Know You Need an ERP
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: If you're a small business owner that manufactures or distributes physical products, and you do not have an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, you may be wondering when you should make this ...
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What's the Difference Between a Warehouse and Distribution Center?
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: At first glance, there may not seem to be many fundamental differences between a warehouse and a distribution center. Many people who use the terms don't bother to differentiate between them, so it's ...
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Food & Beverage Trends in 2021
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: In 2020 the world faced an unprecedented food supply crisis. Certain foods sporadically appeared and disappeared from store shelves, went bad in tanker trucks, and rotted in the fields. The supply ...
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Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Open
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: When is it OK to copy copyrighted computer code? In its recent landmark decision in Oracle vs. Google, the Supreme court says you can do it when it's in the public's interest. ...
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Why IT and OT Must Come Together
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: In an IIoT World article titled Industrial Cyber Security: Why IT & OT collaboration is no longer an option but a necessity authors Joe Weiss and Richard Ku argue that information technology (IT) and ...
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Best Practices for Managing Supply Chain Risk
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines for Cyber Security Supply Chain Risk Management. ...
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Optimizing Industrial and Robotic Control Systems Using PID Tuning
From: Venable InstrumentsDescription: 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 ...
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Technical Therapy for Analog Circuit Designers
From: Venable InstrumentsDescription: Access this valuable series of videos from the Venable Vault. Learn about Design Oriented Analysis and "How to get more results for less work" ...
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Is IO-Link Here to Stay?
From: STEGO, Inc.Description: What in the world is IO-Link? ...
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AI Technologies Transform Industrial Control Automation
From: Wind RiverDescription: AI-enabled industrial control automation creates fresh opportunities to innovate and adapt manufacturing processes, building on a foundation of digital transformation and network advances across the ...
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Cloud-Based Inventory Software
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Implement strategies that leverage the power of the latest level sensor technology and simple software to reduce material shortages and production stoppages. ...
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How 2020 Has Changed the Technology Landscape
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: 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. ...
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New 3D Sensing and Novel Use Cases Expand the NIR Application Landscape
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Three-dimensional (3D) sensing is the technology of depth-sensing. It goes beyond the capabilities of traditional camera or imaging systems, which are designed to capture a two-dimensional (flat) ...
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Hallamshire Tennis, Squash & Racketball Club Protects Their Facility with AMETEK Land's VIRALERT Technology.
From: AMETEK LandDescription: "VIRALERT 3 has given us greater confidence opening the indoor facilities at the club, knowing that we have taken the necessary precautions to keep our members and staff safe. The system is easy to ...
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Headlingley Stadium has Increased Safety Checks with the Installation of VIRALERT
From: AMETEK LandDescription: Rugby and cricket in Yorkshire has an added level of security, thanks to the installation of VIRALERT 3 at the Emerald Headlingley stadium in Leeds, UK. The temperature screening system has been ...
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7 Ways Manufacturing Technology Has Helped Transform the Auto Industry
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: We all know that, behind every big business, there's a complex scaffold of software to support it. This is especially true when it comes to the automotive industry, where seemingly every minute, ...
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8 Ways to Ensure Your Business Is Financially Stable
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: When many people start a business, they have visions of being the disruptor who changes an industry or the innovator who creates one. Financial stability and a steady cash flow, on the other hand, are ...
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ERP Software for Process Manufacturing
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: Process manufacturing, which is also referred to as batch or formula-based manufacturing, is common in a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, chemical, consumer packaged goods, ...
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Why Your Floor Plan Is Crucial to Warehouse Efficiency
From: Top10ERP.orgDescription: Optimizing your warehouse's layout is rarely simple. Thousands of factors come into play that have to be weighed and kept in balance. If you don't have the luxury of starting from scratch, it can be ...
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Digital Transformation of Refinery Operations with 5G Wireless
From: Wind RiverDescription: Adding Intelligence Throughout Refinery Operations Powers Agility and Dependability, Reducing Costs and Boosting Revenue Streams. ...
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Evolve Control Automation Management Capabilities for Industry 4.0 Benefits
From: Wind RiverDescription: Workload Consolidation Extends System Functions to Gain Cost Savings and Data Analytics and Meet High Safety and Security Standards. ...
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5G Wireless Technology Drives New Industrial Use Cases
From: Wind RiverDescription: 5G Technologies Promise to Increase Product Innovations, Improve Performance, and Save Costs for the Industrial Segment ...
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Improved Management of Thickness Survey Data Using a Connected Thickness Gage and Cloud-Based Software
From: Olympus America, Inc.Description: Pipelines that carry critical materials in the oil & gas and chemical industries require regular inspection to monitor for corrosion. A typical inspection is measuring the wall thickness of pipes and ...
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The Case for Software Subscriptions in Your Shop
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Subscription software services have made their way into the fabricating and manufacturing industries, including many commonly used programs related to ERP, CAD, CAM and even nesting. Users, for the ...
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6 Considerations for Success: A Sensible Guide to Silo Inventory Monitoring Systems
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: This guide is designed to give you a basic understanding of the components of a silo inventory system to help you ask informed questions of your vendors. It will also provide insights into some things ...
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Why Should You Use a High Definition Thermal Imaging System on a Glass Furnace?
From: AMETEK LandDescription: The benefits of accurate real-time temperature measurement in a glass melt tank or furnace can be explained ...
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Production Line Display Testing to Meet Today's Manufacturing Demands
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: 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 ...
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Interactive Digital Signage With Temperature Check
From: AdvantechDescription: The smart digital signage kiosk can recognize visitors with registered facial data, identify visitors who have a fever or elevated temperature, and detect whether visitors are wearing a mask. If the ...
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XFdtd Analyzes Complex Beam Steering Antenna Arrays
From: Remcom (USA)Description: As device performance is pushed to new levels by the increasing demands of 5G high frequency systems, the need for more comprehensive analysis tools for complex antenna systems continues to grow. ...
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Edge AI Security System Based on Standard IP Video Cameras
From: AdvantechDescription: >By using Edge AI, video streams from regular cameras can be analyzed in real time at the network edge and used to make critical security decisions. They can detect if triggered events are true ...
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The Total Inspection Pack for Backlit Symbols & Signs: Light, Color, and Defect Testing in One
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: 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 ...
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Product Selection IO-Link: Masters, Devices and Accessories
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Which IO-Link master is best for which application? 1. Would you like to use a daisy chain for voltage supply to be able to operate actuators up to 2 A? Then opt for the PerformanceLine masters with ...
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System Integration of IO-Link
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: What is needed to get started with IO-Link? The basic setup describes how to connect an IO-Link master to a computer via Ethernet cable and presents some other basic functions. Convenient sensor ...
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2020 Manufacturing Regulations Making a Mark on Traceability
From: MECCODescription: We've updated this post for 2020, mainly because compliance issues in manufacturing pose a real challenge for many of the industry companies we work with. As supply chains grow more complicated and ...
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4 Steps to Building a Scalable Manufacturing Traceability System
From: MECCODescription: By now, you've done your homework and understand that manufacturing traceability and part marking are essential if you want to remain competitive. This is Industry 4.0, a time when consumers, ...
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6 Reasons Why Manufacturing Traceability is Essential Now
From: MECCODescription: A few years ago, my dad was still refusing to let us get him a smart phone. "Why do I need one of those?" he'd say. "I've been getting along perfectly fine all of these years without one." Finally, we ...
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Can a Fiber Laser Engrave Wood?
From: MECCODescription: If you're looking for a powerful technology that can be used to create clean, fast, high-contrast permanent marks for identification and traceability, fiber laser engraving machines or a compact laser ...
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How to Laser Engrave Soft Products
From: MECCODescription: Laser marking or engraving glass, ceramics, plastics or other soft materials can pose a catch-22: Opt for more delicate marking methods to increase quality, and you end up sacrificing speed. Let me ...
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How to Navigate the Challenges of Laser Marking Plastics
From: MECCODescription: "When you get into laser marking on plastics, you're stepping into a tricky realm," says laser applications guru Josh Christley. "In many ways, it's totally different from marking metals. Metals are ...
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How to Use Track and Trace to Automate Production Management (Top Six Takeaways)
From: MECCODescription: We've rounded up some of the top insights from the 2019 Automation Fair session "Automating Production Management with Track and Trace." From quality control and error proofing to compliance and ...
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Top Advice for Turning Industrial Data into Actionable Results
From: MECCODescription: If your manufacturing company is one of the many collecting industrial data today (that's around 90 percent of companies, according to GrayMatter), you're aware of the positive business outcomes it ...
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Verification vs. Validation for Medical Device Product Quality Assurance
From: BTG LabsDescription: 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 ...
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Enhancing Vehicle Security with Mobile Video Surveillance
From: AdvantechDescription: Mobile/In-vehicle surveillance market is changing and fast catching up with new technological advancements. One of the key components in this industry is the IP camera solution which is migrating from ...
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Intelligent Truck Tolling and Dynamic Weighing System with Advantech's UNO-2372G Industrial Gateway
From: AdvantechDescription: Overloading of transport vehicles in China is extremely common, causing significant traffic safety issues on roads and for bridge infrastructure. With the gradual abolition of fixed tolling stations ...
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Automotive Innovation: Smart Headlamps Light the Way
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: 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 ...
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10 Ways to Decrease Cost by Increasing Plate Utilization
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Every extra part wrung from the same piece of raw and remnant material is money in your pocket. Here's how to significantly increase earnings. ...
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5 Trends Driving Inventory Monitoring in Silos
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Is your operation seeking ways to more efficiently monitor inventory? Check out these popular trends ...
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Enhanced Voice Quality Analyzer Supports POLQA v3
From: GL Communications, Inc.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 ...
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Supporting the Move from 40G to 100G and Emerging 400G Technologies
From: Belden Inc.Description: Today's data centers need to be fast, dense, scalable, cost effective and energy efficient. The push to handle high data volume and data rates is skyrocketing as Internet traffic inside data centers ...
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Enhanced Voice Recorder Emulator for VoIP Air Traffic Control
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Air traffic control centers are required to provide continuous "ground/ground" and "ground/air" voice communication recordings with synchronized flight related data, for establishing "air traffic ...
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High-Density Bulk Call Generator for TDM, IP, Wireless Networks
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Message Automation and Protocol Simulation (MAPS™) platform is the basis for all signaling protocols and for traffic generation - whether voice, tones, digits, fax, data, or video. It covers ...
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10 Ways to Decrease Costs by Increasing Plate Utilization
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Every extra part wrung from the same piece of raw and remnant material is money in your pocket. Here's how to significantly increase earnings. ...
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A Just Noticeable Difference: Measuring JND for Displays
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: 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, ...
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Arkansas Water Utility Upgrades to Cyber Secure Bedrock Universal Control System
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: The Russellville Water and Sewer System has replaced a legacy PLC with a secure Bedrock™ industrial control system. Bedrock certified solution provider Brown Engineers, of Little Rock, Arkansas, ...
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Light It Up: Capturing Measurement Data for Lighting Design
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: The invention of the electric light bulb changed the world, enabling human activity to continue 24 hours a day in all ambient conditions. Today, the lighting design industry is adopting Human Centered ...
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Six IoT Security Predictions for 2020
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: It's that time of the year and everybody is making predictions. IoT World Today has joined in the crystal gazing, sharing predictions gleaned from discussions with cyber security service providers. ...
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Chapter Four: Securing Industrial Control Systems - Best Practices
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: Securing a control system is a process, not a one and done task. The strategy combines defense in depth with continuous improvement. The intent here is more a tour of concepts than a prescription for ...
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Chapter Three: Intrinsic Cyber Security Fundamentals
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: All aspects of industrial control system (ICS) design have been rethought and rebuilt in the Bedrock™ system. The result is a new platform we call Open Secure Automation. OSA™ delivers ...
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Quality Transformation: Silos
From: PQ SystemsDescription: " The "barriers between staff areas" are more recently called silos, and they extend far beyond staff areas. ...
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Scatter Diagrams
From: PQ SystemsDescription: when and why should you use a scatter diagram? ...
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Specification Limits, Control Limits, & Machine Learning
From: PQ SystemsDescription: The headlines are full of news about artificial intelligence and machine learning. Would it surprise you to learn that the use of control limits can be thought of as machine learning? ...
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Ten Questions to Ask When Selecting Gage Calibration Software
From: PQ SystemsDescription: Managing complex calibration records and setting up a gage management system can be overwhelming. Turning to technology can help, but how do you ensure you are selecting the right gage management ...
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LTE Conformance Test Suite
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to another issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing information and insight into our MAPS LTE Conformance Test Suite that tests the conformance of LTE S1 and LTE X2 interfaces in the ...
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Using WaveFarer Automotive Radar Simulation Software and Chirp Doppler to Assess Radar Performance for Drive Scenarios
From: Remcom (USA)Description: Significant innovation is taking place in automotive industry around capabilities for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Radar sensors operating at millimeter wave bands are a key technology ...
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No More Grunt Work
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Sensors and software bring feed mills and farms together to simplify feed inventory Feed mills and farms have often been opposing forces when it comes to feed management. Although they share a common ...
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Design Better Robot Work Cells With Visual Components
From: Visual ComponentsDescription: In this eBook, we'll give you a quick and general overview of the steps in the OLP process, particularly as it applies to the planning and design of a new robot work cell. ...
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Layout Planning and Optimization With Visual Components
From: Visual ComponentsDescription: How 3D manufacturing simulation can help you increase flexibility, reduce costs, and improve production performance. ...
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5G N4 Interface Simulation
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to another issue of GL's Newsletter providing information on our 5G Core Network Emulator Suite, which is enhanced to support N4 interface simulation. The Emulator Suite comprises of MAPSâ„¢ ...
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Central Office Switching Simulator
From: GL Communications, Inc.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 ...
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Comprehensive IP Analyzer - PacketScan™
From: GL Communications, Inc.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 ...
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Multi-link Frame Relay Emulator
From: GL Communications, Inc.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 ...
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$2 smartphone accelerometer vs. high-end IEPE vibration measurement
From: MonoDAQDescription: 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 ...
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Are Your Parametric Two-qubit Gates Limited by the Driving AWG?
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Parametrically modulated superconducting qubit gates (parametric gates) are usually accomplished by RF-modulation - typically several hundred MHz - of the flux through a mediating coupler element or ...
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Automated 2D Impedance Sweep on the MFIA
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Many devices and materials exhibit an impedance which depends on both frequency and other parameters such as bias voltage. To fully characterize the impedance of these samples requires an impedance ...
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Compensating delay-induced phase shifts for high-frequency resonators
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) or other PID controllers on nano-mechanical resonators rely on clean phase signals that exhibit large slope, or significant phase shift, around the resonance frequency ...
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Connect MFLI with External Signal Generator
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: How to use an MFLI lock-in amplifier with an external reference frequency. ...
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Displaying Nyquist Plots on the MFIA Impedance Analyzer
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: A short guide to displaying impedance data as Nyquist plots on the LabOne Sweeper of the MFIA. ...
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Enhancing the Luminosity Quality of Sulfur Plasma Lamps by the HF2PLL Phase-Locked Loop
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: The choice of technology in lighting industry requires a trade-off between color rendering and luminous efficacy because the spectral sensitivity of the human eye varies with wavelength. ...
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Fast auto-approach with MFLI Threshold Unit to control stepper motor
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: In many applications where the distance between two objects need to be reduced to a predefined gap, the ability to control a stepper motor with clear stop conditions from different sensors is of high ...
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Frequency-Domain Response of Lock-in Filters
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: The response of a lock-in amplifier is characterized by the parameters of its low-pass filter (LPF), i.e. time constant and filter order. The temporal response of the LPF demonstrates the latency of ...
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Gated Data Transfer for Increased Data Sampling Rate on the MFIA and MFLI
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: For measurements of signals which are rapidly changing, for example, when measuring capacitance transients in Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS), high temporal resolution is required. In its ...
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Generation of Single-Sideband Modulation by Arbitrary Waveform Generators
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: I/Q modulations are extensively used in a variety of applications including telecommunications, quantum computing (QC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) ...
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How to Demodulate Multi-frequency Signals such as AM, FM and PM
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: When analyzing signals with multiple frequency components, it is important to measure the amplitude and phase of each frequency component accurately so that a change in the characteristics of one ...
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How to measure PLL/PID bandwidth under real experimental conditions
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: With the merging of PLL and PID tab in LabOne for MFLI and UHFLI, the PID Advisor section is now identical for both type of feedback loops and various system models can be tested. ...
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Kramers-Kronig Test Applied to Impedance Measurements of Electrical Circuits
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Kramers-Kronig relations are used to verify the results of an impedance measurement experiment performed by the Zurich Instruments MFIA Impedance Analyzer or MFLI Lock-in Amplifier equipped with the ...
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LCR Meter vs Impedance Analyzer
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: LCR Meter vs Impedance Analyzer ...
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Measuring Low ESL and Low ESR of a DC-Link Capacitor with the MFIA Impedance Analyzer
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: How the MFIA (and MFLI with MF-IA option), can characterize the equivalent series inductance (ESL) and equivalent series resistance (ESR) of a DC-Link capacitor typically used in power inverters for ...
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Noise Analysis of Signal Components
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: The relation between the noise of signal amplitude and phase on one hand and the noise of in-phase and quadrature components of the signal on the other hand is investigated. ...
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Output Low-Frequency Sinusoidal Signal on the AUX Output of MFLI
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: How to output sinusoidal signals on the AUX Output with the MD multi-demodulator option. ...
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Protect Setup From High Voltage Peaks
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: how a setup can be protected from overvoltage which occurs switching off a coil. ...
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Reloading Data into LabOne Modules
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: LabOne now supports reloading data into the LabOne Modules when using the HDF5 file format. ...
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Resonance Enhancement: A Tale of Two Data Analysis Methods
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: The Benefit and Challenge of using Resonance Enhancement - Resonance enhancement technique is the fastlane toward raising signal well above the noise floor to increase signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and ...
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RF Reflectometry Measurements of Quantum Dots
From: Zurich InstrumentsDescription: Characterizing semiconductor spin qubits with radio-frequency (RF) reflectometry offers a speed advantage over low-frequency conductance measurements thanks to insensitivity to 1/f noise. ...