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Terminology Used in the Field of Surface Chemistry
From: Kruss USADescription: Our glossary defines and explains the terminology used in the field of surface chemistry. It is intended to help in classifying and using technical terms in the appropriate context. We would be ...
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Ergonomic Standards Still a Threat to Manufacturers
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Without proper ergonomics on the production floor, employees can be subject to musculoskeletal disorders when a mismatch arises between the physical capacity of workers and the physical demands of ...
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Avoiding Electrostatic Discharge on the Manufacturing Floor
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Do you believe in ghosts? If you are a manufacturing engineer, or find yourself involved anywhere within the production environment for microelectronics products, you should at least believe in the ...
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Case Study - Transportation - Integrated Gasket Solutions
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: The term "speed to market" speaks to the amount of time it takes for an organization to launch a product or service and commercialize it. It accounts for the time taken to mature the idea, design, ...
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Case Study - Consumer Durables - Large, Heavy Porcelain Products
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: A manufacturer of large, heavy porcelain products was experiencing issues with damage during shipment. Their existing solution provided insufficient protection, resulting in broken units, costly ...
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Keeping Automated Vehicles on Track with 2D LiDAR Localization
From: SICKDescription: LiDAR Localization software uses measurement data from safety laser scanners as a supplement to magnetic and optical tracking guidance technologies ...
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Design/Build Highly Efficient Plant
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Leading design / build engineering and construction firm Goals: Reduce unplanned production stops due to instrumentation failures and reduce overall project costs ...
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Improve Equipment Availability
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components Goals: Optimize operations and comply with corporate Industry 4.0 initiatives ...
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Increase Availability and Improve Controls System
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Leading US cheese manufacturer Goal: Streamline instrumentation replacement so technicians can work on other value-added activities ...
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Reduce Scrap and Improve Performance
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components Goals: Improve performance through scrap reduction ...
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How Cold Stacking Can Help Save Money for Inactive Oil Rigs
From: AggrekoDescription: Covid-19 has already created a heavy knock-on effect on the demand for oil. ...
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Stacking Offshore Oil Rigs and Stacking on the Savings
From: AggrekoDescription: The challenge Protect inactive ships and cut deactivation costs ...
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Medical Electronics Growth Predictions for Today and Beyond
Description: Medical electronics is one of the strongest sectors in the market, with growth fueled by a variety of factors. ...
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MarShield Shielding Solutions to Reduce Long Term Exposure to X-ray Radiation
From: MarShieldDescription: While x-rays are a valuable diagnostic non-invasive tool with minimal risk to the patient, repeated long term exposure to x-rays can be harmful. Construction of hospitals and dental offices take steps ...
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Single-use Systems for Bioprocessing
From: Qosina Corp.Description: Global health challenges like COVID-19 provide a new perspective on single-use systems. During such crises, single-use systems, which offer significantly reduced time to clinic and market, bring an ...
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The Effectiveness of HEPA Filters on DNA
From: BakerDescription: Here we determined that DNA is captured by a HEPA filter at the same efficiency as the filter is rated and discovered DNA cannot be dislodged from a HEPA filter. ...
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Biotechnology and Bioreactors: A Very Diverse Technology
From: Bronkhorst USADescription: Biotechnological processes are conducted in a bioreactor, where substances are being synthesized with the help of bacterial, yeast- and cell strains. The end product is used in many areas of our daily ...
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Optimal Oxygen Levels for Specific Stem Cell Types
From: BakerDescription: Stem cells reside in niches that have much lower oxygen concentration than many other parts of the body. Hypoxia maintains the niche where stem cells stay in optimal condition that benefits the ...
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Respiratory Equipment: Answering the Call for Critical Healthcare Devices
From: TE ConnectivityDescription: The COVID-19 pandemic has put significant stresses on the global healthcare infrastructure, raising awareness on the need for adequate respiratory care equipment and placing significant demand on the ...
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Accuride in Action: Moving Medical Testing Stations Forward with Baker-Ruskinn
Description: Baker-Ruskinn used Accuride two-way travel slides to ensure smooth movement for the interlock tray. ...
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Ford F150 Display Features WEBER System
Description: WEBER Screwdriving Systems featured on the Ford F150 display in the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. ...
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ROHM Automotive Lighting Solutions White Paper
Description: Automotive technology is undergoing a major transformation. A greater number of electronic components is needed to support the advancement of sensing and safety functions required for autonomous ...
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Screwdriving Technology for Automotive and Body Construction
Description: The body, chassis and crash structures are all key elements in vehicle manufacturing. This construction has a substantial share in the passive safety of vehicles and is the supporting connection for ...
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Ventilator Diagram
Description: In response to the special treatment given for Class II ventilators in the US, we have posted a block diagram of a ventilator. ...
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HexArmor Case Study
From: Boyd CorporationDescription: Learn how HexArmor® and Boyd Corporation partnered together to quickly design and manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) like Face Shields and disposable goggles to protect healthcare ...
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Remote Monitoring Comes of Age
From: Bedrock AutomationDescription: Companies with geographically dispersed operations, such as upstream and midstream oil and gas facilities, can benefit from the increased ability to monitor and control those installations remotely ...
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What You Need to Know About RCRA
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: Chemical spill catastrophes make headline news, but there are thousands of smaller spills from drums, IBC totes, tanks, hoses and all sorts of machinery that result in violations and "smaller," ...
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Automated Guided Vehicles and item Supply Trolleys In Use at Audi
From: item America, LLCDescription: In state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing, modularity and versatility are increasingly important factors when it comes to planning and implementing material supply trolleys for intralogistics. ...
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Antimicrobial Surfaces and Medical-Grade Materials
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Antimicrobial coatings and medical grade plastics can help reduce healthcare-associated infections including COVID-19, MRSA, Staphylococcus, E. Coli, and more. ...
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How to Stop Bacteria Growth from Ruining Your Food Products
From: AggrekoDescription: "A lot of companies underestimate the costs of bacterial growth," explains Andrew Schneider, Aggreko Business Development Manager. "They're focused on the direct cost of wastage if damaged and spoiled ...
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AH200C MEMS Mini Attitude and Heading Reference System
Description: AH200C is a high performance AHRS (Mini AHRS) with low price, can be widely used in aircraft model, unmanned aerial vehicles, robots and other high homeostasis electromechanical devices. ...
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Current Mode Step-Down Regulators
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Efficiency ratings for power supplies at full load do not adequately reflect the unit's power consumption under actual operation conditions. To extend the length of operation of portable products on a ...
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Industrial DC/DC Buck Converters
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: The BD9x series consists of 10 DC-DC buck converters with built-in MOSFETs. Both synchronous and diode rectifier types are offered in a wide range of input voltages (2.7V to 76V), making them ideal ...
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JBC Pivots to Help Meet Unprecedented Demand for Medical Face Shields
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: It's no secret, our nation's front-line healthcare workers are in trouble. Not only are they up close and personal with the victims of a once-in-a-century pandemic, they're now being forced to reuse ...
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LED Drivers
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: With the low power consumption of LEDs compared to conventional lighting, an estimated 0.2 liters of fuel per 100 km and about 4 grams lower CO2 emissions per kilometer are being cited as the ultimate ...
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Stepper Motor Drivers
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: By rotating in discrete angular increments, stepping, stepper or simply step motors provide a more precise solution for many motion control and measurement applications, especially when the ...
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Clinicians Turn to Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Learn about telehealth and how it is being used to fight COVID-19. ...
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PolySwitch Resettable Devices Help Protect Automotive Driver-Side Control Switch Consoles
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: PolySwitch Devices Help Protect Power Window and Mirror Control Circuits ...
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The Benefits of Using a Decentralized Architecture Combined With PolySwitch PPTC Devices for Automotive Harness Protection
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: Compared to conventional fusing, this approach is yielding significant weight/cost benefits while enhancing flexibility and reliability ...
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Helping to Build Ventilators in the Coronavirus Pandemic
From: bisco industriesDescription: Contributing to supply chain continuity during these times of disruption provides a real purpose and meaning to my job," Scott said. We are in this together. The thought and action taken by Scott and ...
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3 Ways the Industrial Environment is Tackling the IoT Revolution
Description: As IoT grows and exerts its influence over every aspect of our lives, there is no field that has come under its influence more than heavy industries. Manufacturing and production rely on massive and ...
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Expanding the Functionality of Mobile Applications with Magnetic Gyroscopes
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Next-generation devices are moving to 9-axis sensor fusion employing gyroscopic capabilities to further improve the user experience. For example, a health monitor can track users more accurately when ...
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Negative and Positive Pressure Rooms 101 | Hospital Infection Control
From: Air Innovations, Inc.Description: Effective positive and negative pressure rooms are an important part of industrial climate control systems. In medical settings, these rooms prevent the spread of infectious contaminants and maintain ...
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Automated Guided Vehicle Case
Description: With the improvement of port automation, AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle) has become the trend of container handling systems. This article mainly describes the successful application of the INVT GD800 ...
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Floating Crane Case
Description: With the development of automation technology, the floating crane equipment also starts to use the automatic control system. The frequency converter is used as the core driving part for power balance ...
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Mine Hoist Case
Description: This article analyzes operating characteristics of mine hoist, controlling difficulty and special requirement to inverter, introduce Goodrive300-19 series special inverter for crane, and advantage of ...
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An Inside Look at the Updated ANSI B11.19 Standard: Part 1
From: SICKDescription: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) provides national standards to achieve the safety of people working with industrial equipment. The ANSI B11 Standards series provides details on ...
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An Inside Look at the Updated ANSI B11.19 Standard: Part 2
From: SICKDescription: Risk reduction measures for machine safeguarding should always be taken to achieve the safety of people working with industrial equipment. The latest version of the American National Standard ANSI ...
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Conductor Bar 0812 Part of Niagara Falls' Incline Railway's Ups and Downs
From: Conductix-WampflerDescription: It's been almost 30 years, but tourists are again able to ride the reborn "Maid of the Mist" rail down into the Niagara Gorge. In 2017, Hornblower Niagara Cruises began the work of bringing the old ...
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Double Sided Cooling for Hybrid Vehicle
From: Boyd CorporationDescription: The development and production of electric and hybrid vehicles has been on the rise over the last 2 decades and this trend is likely to increase exponentially over the next 20 years. As automotive ...
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New Products
Description: A list of all the new products being offered through Daheng New Epoch Technology, Inc. ...
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Care Essentials for Ventilator Patients
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: In a variety of settings, nurses are becoming more likely to care for patients on mechanical ventilators. This is because patients on a mechanical ventilator have special needs that nurses must attend ...
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Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem PowerPoint deck
Description: Use the Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem PowerPoint deck (ppt) when making presentations or engaging in conversation with staff, your peers, colleagues, and other industry professionals with whom you ...
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Learn More about NFPA and the Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem
Description: Fact sheet - Download this fact sheet (PDF) to learn more about NFPA and the Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem. ...
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Seven Secrets of 3D Printing for Aerospace
Description: With additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, you can track the advancement of the technology into production environments alongside the rapid adoption of additive in the aerospace industry. ...
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Do You Know the True Cost of Your Clutch, Brake or Clutch/Brake?
Description: Many factors enter into the true product cost such as service life, repair cost, spare parts cost, adjustment cost, downtime cost, reduced production or scrap. Force Control oil shear products do not ...
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Czech Hospital Shooting Highlights Occupancy Risk, Need for Preparation
Description: Our conversation covered the importance of preparing health care facilities for situations involving active shooters, some of the challenges involved with the training, and measures health care ...
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SUCCESS SECURED WITH LOCTITE Threadlockers Drive Specialty Vehicle Innovation
Description: Local Motors, a technology company, faced two different challenges when it set out to build two very different vehicles: the Rally Fighter®, a high-performance off-road machine; and the ...
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Data in Everyday Life: College Tuition on the Rise
From: PQ SystemsDescription: There are numerous factors as to why college tuition is higher than ever. ...
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How to Deal with Oil Market Instability
From: AggrekoDescription: Just about every corner of the oil-producing globe has faced serious challenges this year, leading to destabilization of their oil markets. What's Causing the Trouble? ...
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INS600 RTK INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Description: ? INTRODUCTION The INS600 series is a dual-antenna GPS/INS integrated navigation system built by RION. The dual-antenna differential positioning measurement unit (IMU) is precisely calibrated in the ...
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The Importance of Training Programs for Proper Insulation Installations
Description: For any hydrocarbon-related project, the quality of insulation material and installation are critical for process control, safety and long-term performance. This is especially the case with LNG ...
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3D Electronic Compass-DCM302B
Description: 3D Electronic Compass(2D Calibration)-DCM302B ?Heading accuracy:0.5°~0.8° ?Tilt angle measuring range :±85° ?Tilt angle resolution: 0.1° ?Tilt angle accuracy: 0.1° ?Wide temperature : -40?~+85? ?Size: ...
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Safe Scoring
From: Schmalz Inc.Description: In order to separate them, printed-circuit boards are first scored and then any uneven or rough surfaces are milled. For this purpose, LHMT GmbH develops highly specialized tools that fully automate ...
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Mckenzie Vaughn Hospital - Toronto
Description: Mckenzie Vaughn Hospital - Toronto Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be Canada's first smart hospital, with integrated technology systems and medical devices. These critical care components will ...
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Patients, Practitioners, and Policy Makers - Are You Doing Enough to Ensure Home Medical Equipment Is Functioning During Power Outages?
Description: Durable medical equipment (DME) is the term used for medical equipment that patients use in the home to maintain optimal health. In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in health care placing ...
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Review of Oxygen Reduction Systems for Warehouse Storage Applications
Description: Oxygen reduction (or hypoxic) systems are being used in warehouse facilities as an alternative to sprinkler protection. ...
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How do IMPA Marine Numbers Map to Phelps Industrial's Products
Description: IMPA Marine stores coding/numbers are used in the marine industry to identify marine supplies world-wide. The IMPA system consists of a 6-digit code for marine products, and related products are ...
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Case study of quarter turn fasteners cuts the setup time 50%
From: Imao CorporationDescription: Just turning the knob 1/4 turn made fixture changeover faster and easier to hold multiple workpieces. ...
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Deep Space With Humans on Board: New Material Enables 3D Printed Parts on Orion
From: Stratasys, Ltd.Description: If space is the final frontier, then human travel in to deep space, beyond the Moon, is the ultimate frontier. NASA's Orion program intends to do just that - travel with humans on board back to the ...
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AS9100D-Certified Suppliers Keep Aerospace Companies Soaring
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Every industry has its own series of quality requirements and inspections associated with the types of outputs that its end products are meant to perform. The aerospace industry finds itself in an ...
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Digital Manufacturing Helps Medtech Firm's Goal to Improve Patient Outcomes
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: As often happens in the medical industry, innovative ideas, hatched in university research settings, spawn innovative companies, which create innovative products. A case in point: HemoSonics. The ...
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Lockheed Martin Explores a Different Kind of Space for NASA
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Mankind first set foot on the moon in 1969, laying our first footprints on our orbiting partner, roughly 230,000 miles away. Nearly five decades have now passed since we last visited. Today, NASA is ...
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PEEK, PEI, LSR, and Other Material Options for Medical Prototyping
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Developing parts for the medical device industry is a high-stakes process, and material choice is an important decision to make at the outset of the project. Five strong contenders include PEEK, PEI ...
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Strategic Prototyping for Human-Factors Engineering
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Human-Factors Engineering (HFE) is gaining increasing attention, especially in the context of medical device product development. As technologies evolve, therapies advance, and devices become more ...
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The Complete Welding Career Path Guide for Parents
Description: In this guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about careers in welding and how to share this information with your child. ...
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Chemistry Drives Structural Bonding and Lightweight Solutions for Battery Electric Vehicles
Description: As the global market for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) continues to grow, electrification is shaping the future of automotive design. Electrification systems are more powerful and intricate than ...
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Lightweight Construction: A New Era
Description: The car of the future will be electric - that much is clear. However, manufacturers still face some major challenges before comprehensive and emissions-free electromobility becomes a reality. In ...
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Structural Foam Hybrid Body Panels Enable Significant Vehicle Weight Reduction
Description: Structural inserts from Henkel are designed to enable significant weight reduction while maintaining structural integrity and crash safety standards. ...
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X-ray Moves into New Markets
From: Pleora Technologies Inc.Description: Most of us associate X-rays with a trip to the hospital or dentist, but the medical market represents only a portion of applications that are driving the growing global demand for systems and flat ...
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Actionable Steps to Eliminate Small-Bore Connector Misconnection
From: Qosina Corp.Description: The Japanese principle of "poka-yoke", or passive mistake-proofing, is a key principle of product design in many industries. The goal is simply to remove product defects by preventing human errors on ...
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How to Improve Resiliency in the Medical Device Supply Chain
From: Qosina Corp.Description: Supply chain breakdowns in product quality, delivery or availability are a major disruption in the medical device supply industry. In addition to adding time and cost to the device procurement ...
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Overcoming Barriers of Adopting ISO 80369
From: Qosina Corp.Description: The high stress of an emergency room or ICU creates an environment in which the probability of human error spikes dramatically, adding a layer of risk to an already-tense situation. Asking medical ...
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The Clock Is Ticking: Will Notified Body Capacity for the EU MDR Affect You? - Updated 10.18.19
From: Qosina Corp.Description: In July, we published a white paper on the progress of the new European Union Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Device Regulation (IVDR) and how the lack of Notified Bodies (NB) could ...
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How to Boost Quality and Control in the Medical Device Manufacturing Process
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Torque Needs in the Medical Device Manufacturing Process ...
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HCM370B-HCM375B High Accuracy 3D Digital Compass
Description: HCM370B-HCM375B is a high accuracy 3D digital compass of strip shape, its length is only 1.6cm, IP67 protection grade, suitable for many harsh environment such as drilling measurement. It adopts ...
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Radiation Shielding Solutions for Nuclear Medicine
From: MarShieldDescription: Nuclear Medicine is a growing field with innovations in technology, diagnostic procedures and therapeutic purposes. Variety of workplaces including hospitals, universities and research facilities are ...
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IPLEX GX/GT - Fast and Reliable Inspections for Automotive OEMs
From: Olympus America, Inc.Description: Automotive inspections are challenging due to the large, complex structure of cars and the location of critical components - deep inside the engine, for example. Videoscopes are well suited for ...
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The Future of Medical Imaging and Medical Imaging Cable Assembly
From: NAI Group, LLCDescription: Substantial advances in medical imaging technology are now taking place, both in software such as cloud computing tools and hardware such as medical imaging cable assemblies. Looking at future trends ...
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Trends in Medical Patient Handling Equipment
From: NAI Group, LLCDescription: These days, medical technology is providing a level of care, support, and disease prevention not imagined even just a few years ago. The diagnoses of conditions such as strokes and even dementia now ...
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Engineering and the VW Scandal
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: As an engineer who's also a "car guy", I've monitored the VW emissions scandal with some degree of sadness. I've always been proud of being an engineer, and one of my points of pride has been that our ...
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Discussion of Noise and Vibration Analysis and Control
From: Boyd CorporationDescription: Anyone who has worked in the automotive industry is likely to be familiar with the acronym NVH which stands for Noise, Vibration & Harshness-a term referring to the general objective of designing cars ...
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Do You Have Confidence in Your Quality Inspections?
Description: High performance of equipment means complicated equipment. Add multiple production processes and global suppliers and it's a wonder anything can be built correctly. Margins are thin and unplanned ...
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Actuator Systems Ready to Meet the Healthcare Challenges of the Future
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: LINAK electric linear actuator systems have to be capable of taking on a future where challenges are abundant. Obesity, more senior citizens, more diabetics, and more people with dementia. ...
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Aging Populations Challenge the Healthcare System
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Current demographic changes are increasing the proportion of elderly people significantly. This presents a wide range of challenges for the healthcare system - challenges that can only be resolved by ...
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Dignity and Independence through Assistive Technology in Healthcare
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: More and more elderly residents wish to uphold self-preservation and retain their dignity in spite of the inevitable physical challenges or handicaps life brings. This raises the number of ...
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General Safety Features in Actuator Systems for Healthcare Equipment
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Enhancing safety is often a mix of several initiatives and a broad focus is required to make healthcare applications that comply with standards and norms. At LINAK we give a high focus on specific ...
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LINAK CO-Link™ Adds Channels to Actuator Systems within Healthcare
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: CO-Link™ is a LINAK concept allowing you to double the number of channels in your actuator system, using the LINAK products already available. It will operate with twice the power, and even ...
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LINAK is Delivering More Power, Speed, Safety and Value to Customers' Applications
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Over the last 20 years, LINAK has watched global trends and developments and used that knowledge to develop cutting edge components for healthcare equipment. With more patients in need of care there's ...
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Medical Approvals for Electric Actuator Systems
From: LINAK U.S. Inc.Description: Quality and Safety are key issues for LINAK. Application manufacturers have to be aware of the requirements for testing and certification of the final medical equipment. LINAK delivers certificates ...