Specialized Industrial Products Reference Materials

Description: Dr. Eric Topol is perhaps the person most closely associated with the digitization of medicine. Last year, his book on the subject, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, was published. ...

Large Scale Bulk Handling Project Boosts Gluten-Free Food Production at Bakery On Main

From: Flexicon Corporation

Description: After investigating various ways to upgrade the existing equipment, all of which proved unsatisfactory, Smulders decided to build an entirely new facility with an integrated bulk handling system ...

Embedded Medical Devices: "A hacker's playground?"

From: Critical Link, LLC

Description: As embedded medical devices become more prevalent, and more sophisticated, the stakes will just keep getting higher and higher, and security will become more and more of a concern. ...

Bakery Case Study

From: Soft Robotics

Description: Automation Challenge: Fresh Dough Handling Customer: Global Retail Pizza Company Integration Partner: ABI LTD ...

Using Nitrogen Gas in Food Packaging?

From: GENERON

Description: Have you ever bought a bag of chips and wondered why there is so much air inside? Earth's atmosphere naturally includes nitrogen gas, but the air in your chip packaging includes an even higher ...

Determination of Fat and Oil Content in Foodstuffs

From: Oxford Instruments

Description: Fat and oil content is an important measurement of nutritional value and product quality for many foodstuffs. In particular, this value is widely used to determine energy content and to calculate the ...

Determination of Solid Fat Content in Edible Oils and Fats

From: Oxford Instruments

Description: Solid Fat Content (SFC) is an essential measurement for characterising edible oils/fats used in the bakery, confectionery and margarine industries for which a rapid and convenient method is required. ...

Measurement of Oil Content in Dried Palm Mesocarp

From: Oxford Instruments

Description: Oil palm is grown extensively around the world, chiefly in Indonesia, Malaysia and parts of South America. Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is extracted from the flesh of the oil palm fruit (known as the ...

Automation Team Slashes pH Maintenance Costs Using Rosemount Analytical Sensor Solutions

From: Emerson Automation Solutions – Rosemount

Description: Emerson Process Mangement determined that pH measurements could be improved by using HART™ digital field communication protocol in the transmitters that communicated with AMS™ Suite, ...

Measuring Oxygen on Oil Field Steam Flood Steam Generators

From: Emerson Automation Solutions – Rosemount

Description: Oil field steam flood steam generators have been in use to aid in the recovery of heavy oil (ex. 13 API gravity) for more than thirty years. These steam generators burn fossil fuels such as natural ...

Pharmaceutical Company Slashes pH Maintenance Costs in Batch Fermentation

From: Emerson Automation Solutions – Rosemount

Description: The customer determined that pH maintenance accounts for 46% of all the field work. Customer wanted to increase pH reliability and eliminate rework/scrap due to poor pH measurements. They also wanted ...

PUR-Sense Sensors: Pharmaceutical and Food and Beverage Applications

From: Emerson Automation Solutions – Rosemount

Description: The PUR-Sense™ line of sensors was designed for the highly regulated Life Sciences and Food & Beverage industries and their inherently stringent requirements. Hygienic concerns and material ...

Medical Electronics Growth Predictions for Today and Beyond

From: New England Tubing Technologies

Description: Medical electronics is one of the strongest sectors in the market, with growth fueled by a variety of factors. ...

The Changing Landscape of Medicine & Healthcare

From: New England Tubing Technologies

Description: Embracing the disruptive technologies of the future ...

ADAS Simulation Under Severe Vibrations

From: Altair Engineering Inc

Description: Automotive radars are becoming standard equipment on vehicles. Their purpose is to adjust the distance between vehicles and/or alert the driver when dangerous situations arise. Since 2010, the safety ...

Bottled Water Company Implements Large Format Polymer Windows

From: IRISS, Inc.

Description: One of the North America's leading bottled water companies dedicated to providing customers with healthy hydration options and equally committed to keeping their people safe, recently approached IRISS ...

A more efficient way to understand worldwide metal standards

From: Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science

Description: Increasing demand for imported metals, varying attitudes to metal quality by country, new metal production techniques and keen competition are driving down metal prices. As a consequence, in some ...

The Critical Role of Chemistry in the Vehicles of Tomorrow

From: Henkel Corporation - Industrial

Description: Today, the automotive industry is witnessing history in the making on multiple fronts. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems are changing the very idea of the driving experience. In concert with ADAS, ...

To Stamp Or Not To Stamp? That Is The Question

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: Over the past two decades, global sourcing of pressure equipment for use in the oil and gas and other continuous process industries has increased exponentially. At the same time, pressure equipment ...

Microfluidic Mixing Using Contactless Dielectrophoresis

From: Amp-Line Corp.

Description: The first experimental evidence of mixing enhancement in a microfluidic system using contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is presented in this work. Pressure-driven flow of deionized water containing ...

Selective Concentration of Human Cancer Cells Using Contactless Dielectrophoresis

From: Amp-Line Corp.

Description: This work is the first to demonstrate the ability of contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) to isolate target cell species from a heterogeneous sample of live cells. Since all cell types have a unique ...

Selective Isolation of Live/Dead Cells Using Contactless Dielectrophoresis (cDEP)

From: Amp-Line Corp.

Description: Contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is a recently developed method of cell manipulation in which the electrodes are physically isolated from the sample. Here we present two microfluidic devices ...

Replicating Physiological Oxygen Levels in Cell Culturing - Does it Matter?

From: Baker

Description: How to better mimic cell physiology ...

The Future of Magnetic Bead Resuspension

From: Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Inc.

Description: A prototype device has been developed to automatically keep the bead solution homogenous in a reagent trough and allows for the bead concentrations to be quantitatively verified. The device consists ...

Solved Application Story #01 | Aerospace and Aviation

From: Helical Products Company, Inc.

Description: HELI-CAL Flexure 2403 ...

Solved Application Story #03 | Medical |

From: Helical Products Company, Inc.

Description: HELI-CAL Flexure U-Joint 9491 ...

Automotive Quality Standards 101: What Qualification Really Gets You

From: Qorvo

Description: As cars evolve into capable computing devices, the quality, reliability and safety of electronic components becomes even more critical. Read our latest blog to learn more about the design challenges, ...

What is Wash-down?

From: Shurtape Technologies, LLC

Description: A definition and description of wash-down and why it is important in the packaging industry ...

FAQs

From: New England Tubing Technologies

Description: FAQs A collection of questions that our custom solutions specialists are often asked. ...

Glossary

From: New England Tubing Technologies

Description: Glossary A mini dictionary of common tubing terms ...

Why Custom Medical Tubing May Be Right For You

From: New England Tubing Technologies

Description: Off-the-shelf or custom? What's right for you? ...

ATEX Directive

From: Dataforth Corporation

Description: The Directive is commonly referred to as the 'ATEX' Directive ('Atmospheres EXplosibles'), but may also be called the ATEX Equipment Directive. The Directive applies to electrical and/or mechanical ...

Automated Solutions for SAE Standard HUD Measurement

From: Radiant Vision Systems

Description: Head-up display (HUD) technology is one of the largest growth areas in the automotive market, with a key focus on increased passenger safety through improved vehicle operations and operator awareness. ...

Supplemental Type Certifications

From: Carlisle Interconnect Technologies

Description: As part of our focus on providing end-to-end solutions, CarlisleIT maintains a comprehensive list of STCs to make sure you get the certification you need. The following list represents ...

Fifty percent more Whiskey.

From: SEEPEX Inc.

Description: Major productivity gain without loss of quality, thanks to a SEEPEX solution for Irish Distillers. ...

Flow rate more than doubled.

From: SEEPEX Inc.

Description: Buttermilk, which is highly popular in Ireland for baking scones and pancakes, is particularly sensitive due to its microbiological structure. Tricky conditions for profitable production are no ...

Fresh and crispy.

From: SEEPEX Inc.

Description: Fruits, vegetables and salad: The production of plant based food products involves huge amounts of green waste. For a global player in food production in the UK this is no longer a problem since ...

Keeping the buttered side up.

From: SEEPEX Inc.

Description: Wolf ButterBack produces premium frozen baked goods for the baking industry. Each baked good is frozen at the end of the production process. SEEPEX provided a customized solution for their production ...

Smooth operator.

From: SEEPEX Inc.

Description: No one had heard of them a few years ago, but today they are found in every refrigerated section: fruit smoothies. But how do bananas, raspberries and pineapples get into those small bottles? Quite ...

University's Brand New Science Facility Brightens Mountainous Utah Scenery With FEVE Coatings

From: AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.

Description: FEVE-based fluoropolymers, like Valflon, are ideal for projects like the BYU Life Sciences Building because of their durability properties. The Lumiflon FEVE resin utilized in these coating systems ...

DEF-STD 59-411 and the Challenge of Land Class A

From: XP Power

Description: DEF STD 59-411 was issued by the UK Ministry of Defence in 2007 for land, sea and air equipment. It replaced DEF STD 59-41 and other EMC related Defence Standards. DEF-STD 59-411 is organised into 5 ...

Overcoming Patient Leakage Current Issues

From: XP Power

Description: IEC 60601 is the generally accepted standard for medical electrical and electronic equipment, required for the commercialization of this type of equipment in many countries. To guard against electric ...

Putting the case for custom power supplies in low to medium volume applications

From: XP Power

Description: There can be few more critical applications for power supplies in electronic equipment than in the field of medical electronics. Medical equipment will often have lives dependent upon its reliable ...

The 4 Most Common Rubber Manufacturing Processes

From: Hygenic Corporation (The)

Description: When it comes to producing rubber products, multiple manufacturing processes exist. Each manufacturing process has particular benefits that make it the ideal choice for manufacturing certain types of ...

What Makes Natural Rubber Latex Products Unique?

From: Hygenic Corporation (The)

Description: Products made from natural rubber latex have many unique properties that make them desirable for a variety of applications. Excellent stretch and recovery is one of the main reasons people use natural ...

A day in the life of a cardiovascular biology PhD student

From: Baker

Description: I've spent the last three years looking for a better way to recreate and observe cell responses in the laboratory. This has been the focus for my PhD, 'Defining an in vitro model of normoxia and its ...

A dFPIA platform for quantitative analysis of biomarkers

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: A droplet-based fluorescence polarization immunoassay (dFPIA) platform for rapid and quantitative analysis of biomarkers ...

Flexibility of single-stranded DNA measured by single-molecule FRET

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Flexibility of single-stranded DNA measured by single-molecule FRET ...

High-speed non-cryogenic cooled infrared sensors using carbon nanotubes

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: High-speed non-cryogenic cooled infrared sensors using carbon nanotubes ...

Interlaced optical force-fluorescence measurements for single molecule biophysics

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Interlaced optical force-fluorescence measurements for single molecule biophysics ...

Photovoltaic Effect in Single Carbon Nanotube-based Schottky Diodes

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Photovoltaic effect in single carbon nanotube-based Schottky diodes ...

Precise quantification of transcription factors in a surface-based single-molecule assay

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Precise quantification of transcription factors in a surface-based single-molecule assay ...

Single carbon nanotube based infrared sensor

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Single carbon nanotube based infrared sensor ...

Single Molecule Study of Bacillus Thuringiensis Reveals Tetramerization

From: World StarTechnologies

Description: Single molecule fluorescence study of the Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Aa reveals tetramerization ...

Don't Lose Your Certification: Transition to ISO 14001:2015

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). It provides a framework that an organization can follow, rather than ...

Promising Future for New, Implantable Titanium Alloys

From: Pulse Technologies, Inc.

Description: Biomedical applications have long utilized austenitic stainless steels, titanium alloys and cobalt-chrome-molybdenum alloys for their excellent mechanical properties and sufficient biocompatibility ...

Transition to ISO 9001:2015

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: ISO 9001 is a standard that sets out the requirement for a quality management system. It helps businesses and organizations to be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction. A new version of the ...

Material for Sound Proofing and Sound Dampening

From: Phelps Industrial Products, LLC

Description: Sound is undeniably a very important aspect of our existence. Aside from being a major form of communication, it's also put to task in geophysics; in aspects of signalling, location and positioning. ...

Parking Stops: Rubber vs. Concrete

From: Checkers

Description: Concrete and rubber are the two most common substances from which parking stops are manufactured, and each presents unique advantages. ...

Rubber Parking Curbs Withstand Harsh Weather

From: Checkers

Description: High visibility rubber parking stops are easier to spot than concrete options. ...

What is the Best Wheel Chock Material?

From: Checkers

Description: When shopping for wheel chocks, material construction the most important factor to consider. ...

About Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

From: Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Inc.

Description: Dexter Magnetic Technologies has designed and produced a large variety of permanent magnet static field sources for MRI/NMR applications, some based on our current quadrature magnet patents and others ...

Why UL is So Important

From: Process Technology

Description: UL Standards encompass UL's extensive safety research and scientific expertise. With over a century of experience in the development of more than 1,500 Standards, UL is an accredited standards ...

Is Calendar Based Prevention Maintenance Passé?

From: IRISS, Inc.

Description: The small group of electricians and other skilled trades groaned. Annual shutdown was always a hectic mad dash to make sure checklists were completed and everything was put back together again in time ...

ABSA Biosafety LAI Searchable Database - Now Available

From: Baker

Description: ABSA International is pleased to announce a searchable laboratory acquired infection (LAI) database of peer-reviewed journal articles. ...

Futuristic Technology Drives Change In The Car Industry

From: Essentra Components

Description: The age of the internet car is coming, but the impact that they will have on our cities, the environment and the automotive manufacturing sector is as yet unclear. ...

Tech Transfer Market Open For Business

From: Essentra Components

Description: From motorsport to medical, KW Special Projects is constantly looking for ways to move technology across industry boundaries. We talk to the company's boss, engineer Kieron Salter. The high ...

Ultrasonic Examination in Lieu of Radiographic Examination for Sections I & VIII Division 1 & 2

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: Ultrasonic Examination (UT) is a permitted volumetric examination method in lieu of the required Radiographic Examination (RT) of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Sections I, VIII Division 1 and ...

MedBook: Medical Technology Through the Ages

From: steute

Description: Physicians will be able to navigate through tissue to millimetre precision and, thanks to new imaging techniques, will also be able to diagnose many diseases far more easily. Interventions will be ...

How to Better Mimic Cell Physiology

From: Baker

Description: Cell culture currently controls temperature, relative humidity, and carbon dioxide. But what about oxygen? ...

Update on Hypoxia-inducible Factors and Hydroxylases in Oxygen Regulatory Pathway

From: Baker

Description: Update on hypoxia-inducible factors and hydroxylases in oxygen regulatory pathways: from physiology to therapeutics ...

The Technology of Autonomous Vehicles

From: Metal Cutting Corporation

Description: In our last blog, we talked about some of the major players in autonomous vehicles and how rapidly the technology is evolving. ...

Top Five Reasons Why Monitoring the CO2 Concentration is a Great Idea

From: LufftUSA

Description: CO2 has been a very hot topic for a few years now mainly due to its relation to climate change and also government policy. Leaving this aside, controlling and monitoring indoor levels of carbon ...

3 FAQs in Aerospace Engineering

From: CEF Industries LLC

Description: In the aerospace manufacturing industry-whether commercial or military-there are many common questions frequently asked by clients. There are processes and terms that often need to be clarified, and ...

Reproducing Water Film Heights

From: LufftUSA

Description: In the following article Karl Schedler from MICKS describes how you can check water film heights manually. The described procedure is amongst others used by the German Federal Highway Research ...

Updated Map of the Human Brain Shows 180 Different Regions

From: Laserglow Technologies

Description: A group of researchers at Washington University have updated the 100-year-old map of the human brain (originally made by German neurologist Korbinian Brodmann) in a scientific feat which revealed that ...

The Latest Developments in ASME Pressure Equipment Codes and Standards

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code gets updated every 2 years. This report will cover major developments in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code from the 2013 & 2015 Editions as well as major ...

Handheld XRF in Exploration Drilling: Reverse Circulation/Rotary Air Blast and Diamond Core

From: Olympus America, Inc.

Description: Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) technology enables exploration managers to understand drill hole geochemistry during the drill program, helping managers to optimize budgets through informed onsite ...

Case Studies [Air Gap Sensor] :Detected the seating of engine parts with 0.5µm repeatability

From: Metrol Co., Ltd.

Description: The client is a manufacturer that produces engine parts for major automakers. A representative of the processing department consulted us on "seating confirmation" of the work and jig during machining. ...

Case Studies [Air Gap Sensor] :Seating Confirmation of the Shaft Prevents Machining Errors

From: Metrol Co., Ltd.

Description: Metrol's "Air Gap Sensors" can detect the seating of the shafts with 0.5µm repeatability, preventing defective products. ...

Medical EMC; 4th Edition

From: XP Power

Description: Medical electrical equipment â€" Part 1-2: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance â€" Collateral Standard: Electromagnetic disturbances â€" Requirements and tests There are ...

The FDA Regulatory Pathway for Premarket Notification 510(k)

From: Boyd Technologies

Description: Infographic describing the 510(k) process. ...

HOW TO OBTAIN THE NATIONAL BOARD OF BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL INSPECTORS

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: The "R" Stamp was originally developed by the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (National Board) for use in repairing and altering ASME Code stamped boiler and pressure vessels. ...

Toward a More Accurate Description of "Low-Oxygen" Cell Culture Work

From: Baker

Description: It's funny how things can get labeled with certain words that don't completely make sense. Misnomers are all over the place. Jellyfish aren't fish. Rhode Island isn't an island. Koala bears are ...

The ASME Code Process for a Code Case: Non-traditional Manufacturing Methods/Materials

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: This article will go through the 5 W's and 1 H - Who, What, Where, Why, When and How - of ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (B&PVC) code cases relative to valves and other pressure equipment. The ...

6 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Drain Cleaning Equipment

From: General Pipe Cleaners

Description: Expose, clean and lubricate all bushings, bearings and moving parts (this should be done at least twice a year.) A well-lubricated machine will last longer and is less likely to break down in the ...

Boost Water Efficiency With a Fixed-Network AMI System

From: American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Description: Case Study - Wausau Water Works (Wis.) has used Neptune Technology Group's metering technology for almost 50 years. ...

New Legal Framework Pressure Equipment Directive (PED 2014/68/EU) Synopsis

From: Hartford Steam Boiler

Description: 2014/68/EU was published on June 27, 2014 in the European Union (EU) Official Journal approved by the European Parliament and of the Council of May 15, 2014 as a part of a larger initiative by the EU ...

Distribution Automation and Smart Grids

From: National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)

Description: This paper represents the recent work of NEMA's Distribution Automation Section, which represents manufacturers of DA equipment and systems used to supervise, measure, monitor, and control electrical ...

Key Steps in Developing Decision-Quality Analysis

From: National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)

Description: Economists famously rely on an assumption of perfect information when theorizing how economic agents will react to exogenous shocks. ...

Using Y Rated Capacitors in Medical Applications

From: XP Power

Description: The medical standard IEC60601-1 is mandatory for medical equipment and requires manufacturers to review the isolation system employed within their products. One of the more radical changes in the 3rd ...

New Regulations Proposed for U.S. Offshore Oil Drilling

From: Daemar Inc.

Description: New Regulations Proposed for U.S. Offshore Oil Drilling ...

North American Crude Oil System Map Shows Growing Oil Production Industry

From: Daemar Inc.

Description: Recently, the world renowned energy publisher, Platts, unveiled its first North American Crude Oil System Map. The wall-sized map is perfect for boardrooms and displays all prudent information related ...

ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code Synopsis: All Code Sections

From: Hartford Steam Boiler