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Application Spotlight: Self-Locking Rings in Automotive Applications
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley offers an array of standard retaining rings for different applications. Selecting the appropriate ring requires an understanding of the application requirements, which includes thrust load, ...
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Smalley Receives "Stamp of Approval" for Medical Component Manufacturing
From: SmalleyDescription: Quality parts make for an exceptional medical device. For many years, Smalley has been a trusted supplier to the medical industry. Our recent certification to ISO 13485 is another indicator of our ...
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Apollo 11: We Touched the Moon and Now Aim at the Stars
Description: A brief history and a look at what the future holds ...
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Different Ways Mechanical Components Are Making A Difference
From: PrecipartDescription: We commonly associate the act of helping others with volunteering for a charity, donating funds, or simply lending a hand. But, positive social actions can take many forms and come from many different ...
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Opportunity Knocks: Precipart Helped Power Historic Mars Rover
From: PrecipartDescription: Here at Precipart, we're proud to have played a small part in the mission, alongside the engineers, scientists, and NASA leaders who designed, engineered, and piloted the Mars rover. It's an honor for ...
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Trends in Specialty Tubing to Address the Medical Challenges of Today
Description: The manufacturing tools and fabrication techniques used to produce medical tubing have become extraordinarily exacting and complex. That complexity is driven by the many applications in which tubing ...
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Kaleesuwari Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Edible oil is a highly competitive market. Delivering health and wellness through their superior products, Kaleesuwari is a company that prides itself on its responsiveness to customer requirements. ...
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Magnus Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Magnus Services, a start-up oilfield water management and automation company based in North Dakota, was looking for a way to remotely monitor and control water usage during the fracking operation in ...
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Xianjiang Zhundong Petroleum Company Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: The Xinjiang Zhundong Petroleum Company drills for oil and gas in the eastern region of Zhungeer, Xinjiang in China. Located in a desolate area that faces extreme temperatures, rugged equipment is ...
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Guide to Ferrous Measurement
Description: Ferrous wear is one of the most important parameters to monitor as part of a based maintenance program. The main goal of such a program is to identify the transition from normal wear to abnormal wear ...
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Guide to Measuring Soot in Oil
Description: There are several methods available for both laboratory and field analysis of soot in diesel engine oil. The choice of methods depends on budget, precision, location of testing, time, and other ...
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On-site Oil Analysis for Shipboard Maintenance
Description: The United States Naval Ship (USNS) Watson is one of the largest, medium-speed, roll-on, roll-off ships that have significantly expanded the nation’s sealift capacity. The Watson has a ...
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Q5800 - A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR EXPEDITIONARY "ON THE MOVE" OIL ANALYSIS
Description: This paper describes how the Q5800 serves as a single portable solution providing cost effective, integrated lubrication analysis. As instrumentation size shrinks and becomes more portable, oil ...
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SpectrOil - The Accurate and Dependable Choice for In-Service Oil And Fuel Analysis
Description: The basis of modern oil analysis programs is the use of optical emission spectroscopy (OES) to measure the ppm (parts per million) levels of wear metals, contaminants, and additives in oil samples. ...
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SPECTROVISC Q3000 SERIES VISCOMETER - A PORTABLE KINEMATIC OIL ANALYSIS SOLUTION FOR FIELD-BASED USERS
Description: This paper describes how using the handheld, solvent-free SpectroVisc Q3000 Series device in the field provides immediate and accurate kinematic viscosity measurements, even when compared to ...
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The Benefits of On-Site Oil Analysis
Description: The key benefits of on-site oil analysis are maintenance cost savings and productivity increases from increasing the uptime of running machines. Machines run longer if the right oils are used and if ...
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Measurements of Automotive Parts
Description: As technologies have progressed, car manufacturers have had to ensure the precision production of parts and casing to ensure the smooth running and ultimate performance they strive to achieve, whilst ...
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Achieving Cognitive Diversity Through Education - Diversity in Tech: Part III
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Diversity in Tech is about physical representation and cognitive variation. But representation and variation show up the most in large workforces. Right now, there are more STEM jobs open, and ...
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Guide to Navigating Greenville's Artisphere
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Sealevel is a sponsor of the Greenville Artisphere festival, now in its fifteenth year. This sponsorship is a nod to the love of art Sealevel's founders, the O'Hanlans, have - cultivated especially by ...
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Who Needs Diversity in Tech? - Diversity in Tech: Part II
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Diversity for diversity's sake is not a productive conversation. Part I in our "Diversity in Tech" series showed that the consequences of diversity - creativity, profit, collective good and ...
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9-th International Exhibition of Arms and Military Machinery MILEX-2019 which is in Minsk, Belarus.
Description: MILEX-2019, on May 15-18, 2019, include the most advanced models of weaponry and military equipment designed by engineering companies of Belarus, Russia, the CSTO states and other countries of near ...
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Bearing Preload: What is it and Why is it Important?
From: Temper CorporationDescription: Applications such as machine tool spindles, electric motors and automotive differentials require precision rotary motion with a higher degree of stiffness and positional accuracy. To achieve this, a ...
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To Stamp Or Not To Stamp? That Is The Question (Final Version 2019)
From: Hartford Steam BoilerDescription: 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 ...
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Design of Lugs
From: IHS ESDUDescription: Designers of aerospace components such as lugs, tension clips, bath-tub fittings etc. are taking an increasingly pragmatic view of material selection. There is an increasing awareness that the ...
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ESDU Design Decision Support Tool
From: IHS ESDUDescription: ESDU provides validated engineering knowledge and best practices to help design engineers solve complex problems and create innovative products. Guided and approved by independent expert Committees, ...
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Jet Engine and Fan Noise
From: IHS ESDUDescription: The problems associated with the estimation of noise levels from jet engines are of particular concern to operators of jet-powered aircraft. There is a need to predict jet noise levels at many jet ...
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Spotted: ifm and the car for Africa
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Many cars on the streets of Africa have already driven many thousands of kilometres, in most cases in Europe. The newly created aCar by Evum Motors however has been designed especially for the African ...
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Transonic Aerodynamics by ESDU
From: IHS ESDUDescription: The information is concerned with the flow around aerofoils, wings, bodies and cowls at high subsonic, transonic and (in a few cases) low supersonic speeds. The transition from high subsonic to ...
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Automotive radar technology, market and test requirements
Description: This white paper explains the basics of automotive radar, MIMO radar signal processing, applications and market trends. Test and measurement requirements for research and development, mandatory ETSI ...
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Considerations for Medical Grade Foot Controls
Description: Many factors should be considered when choosing a medical foot control for your device. Design Engineers must know that the operation of a foot switch is often very critical to a procedure, so the ...
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Digital vs. Linear
Description: When referencing the word "digital" as a characteristic of a foot control it simply means an on/off actuation. The digital on/off actuation of a foot pedal can be either a momentary actuation (step ...
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Does Your Medical Grade Foot Switch Need A Foot Guard / Shroud?
Description: Some medical applications, such as the medical laser industry, require that the foot pedal have a guard-shroud that covers the pedal to help prevent inadvertent actuation. Most applications don't have ...
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Electronic (PCB) vs. Mechanical Foot Controls
Description: An electronic foot control is a pedal consisting of electronics versus mechanical components such as gears, potentiometers, and snap switches. In the world of foot controls the use of electronics is ...
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Ergonomics, Weight Considerations, Measurements
Description: When designing a new foot switch there are many things that you must factor in, but surprising the simplest things could end up being the most important to the end user. The ergonomics, weight, and ...
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FDA 510(k) Clearance
Description: The FDA is arguably the most powerful governing body that regulates the medical industry in the USA. Linemaster has achieved FDA 510(k) Clearance on the IR Wireless foot control product line to prove ...
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How many functions are required, pushbutton options?
Description: When determining that a foot control is required for a particular application, one of the first questions that must be answered is "how many functions does the foot control have to perform?" The ...
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IP (Ingress Protection) Rating
Description: Ingress Protection (IP) ratings are developed by the European Committee for Electro Technical Standardization (CENELEC) (NEMA IEC 60529 Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures - IP Code), ...
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Material Makeup of a Foot Control
Description: The material makeup of a foot control assembly can be very simple depending on the application or very detailed if a more sophisticated solution is required. Some single pedal foot control enclosures ...
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Medical Standards
Description: When designing a medical foot control there are many things that must be into account. Certain criteria must be followed in order to produce an interface that meets the standards set forth by the ...
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Wired -vs- Wireless
Description: Wired foot controls have been around for decades. Linemaster created its first wired foot switch in the 1950's and have been adapting to customer requirements and incorporating technological advances ...
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Wood Veneer Slicing Machine
Description: Servos are used to process veneer quickly and provide "close shave" for wood processing machinery. ...
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Household Energy Storage System's Power Solution
From: Mornsun America,LLCDescription: Abstract: The intelligent information age greatly increases electricity demand, which, in return, pressures people into seeking for green power generation due to the severe environmental pollution and ...
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Power Solution for Rail Transit
From: Mornsun America,LLCDescription: Abstract: China has the world's largest high-speed rail network as long as 20,000 km so far, which not only comprehensively enhances the quality of China's road network but also further develops the ...
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Railway Applications & Selection Guide --- DC/DC Converter Used on Rolling Stock
From: Mornsun America,LLCDescription: Abstract: This paper introduces components of vehicle electronic equipment of rail transit and different requirements for them, and puts forward key points complying with EN50155-2007 standard for ...
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Times of 1500V PV System has Come
From: Mornsun America,LLCDescription: Abstract: The comparably high cost has been the main barrier to mass deployment of PV markets. How to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency becomes what counts most. 1500V PV power system takes ...
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Challenging Channels: Tubing Innovations Enable Greater Device Capabilities
Description: Technical innovations provided by tubing suppliers fulfill the various needs of medical device manufacturers. ...
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The Trends and Challenges of Medical Extrusion
Description: Our very own Tim Finn, Design Engineer, shared his thoughts on medical extrusion as a contributor to the article Extrapolating Extrusion by Sam Brusco in the October 2018 issue of MPO (Medical Product ...
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Catheter Coatings Benefit from UV Curing
Description: Coating a catheter with a hydrophilic coating allows the catheter to easily travel through the body. Learn why medical device manufacturers are using uv-curable coatings for their catheter coating ...
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Goodrive200A Series Inverter Application for Carding Machine
Description: The carding machine works by opening individual fibers and eliminating impurities of the cotton rolls or the chemical fiber fed by the hopper or the former working process, thus straightening the ...
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Overview of UV Curing in the Medical Industry
Description: Manufacturers of a wide variety of medical products such as syringes, catheters, hearing aids, dialysis machines, medication patches, hydrogels, filters, test strips, etc. find UV curing of coatings, ...
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The Changing Landscape of Medicine & Healthcare
Description: Technology is changing the world in dramatic fashion and it's doing so at a rate of change unparalleled in history. ...
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Constant Force Adjustable Spacers
From: Temper CorporationDescription: Temper® Load Rings are adjustable spacers that have unique properties: they are compressed at a constant force (permanent adjustment) and can spring back a small, constant value. The spacers are ...
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Application Note: Level Detection of Low Viscosity Liquid in Food and Beverage Market
Description: In Food & Beverage applications often it often happens that a standard capacitive sensor is not enough to distinguish the level of a low viscosity liquid in a tank from the film left on the wall. ...
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Application Note: Water Condensation in Freezers
Description: During the drainage of greywater tanks, condensation from wastewater from fridges and freezers can be a problem for supermarkets. ...
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Microlocation ushers major advancement in locating and navigating mobile robots
From: Humatics CorporationDescription: Any industrial automation expert will tell you that robot navigation is not a solved problem. Current localization solutions, using a variety of LIDAR and optical sensors, are often limited to indoors ...
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Microlocation: The Next Era of Navigational Technology
From: Humatics CorporationDescription: Back in the eighteenth century, Harrison's chronometers enabled the precise measurement of longitude at sea, opening new eras of trade and exploration. But not all technological innovations are ...
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Automotive EMC Measurements with Oscilloscopes
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: This article provides some insight into making effective automotive electromagnetic-compatibility measurements using an oscilloscope. ...
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Development of a Portable Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Biomedical Applications
From: Red PitayaDescription: A portable Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system has been developed with Red Pitaya STEMlab for biomedical applications. ...
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Reducing Component Weight for Automotive Applications
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Manufacturing process and material considerations for lightweighting ...
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V2X in the Connected Car of the Future
From: QorvoDescription: The digital car is no longer a concept of the future. Automotive connectivity - or "connected car" applications - have now reached critical demand. Let's look at the systems and networks that connect ...
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Compliance to 40th Harmonic Measurement Requirements in Recent 10 CFR 429 and 431 Revisions
From: Ohio Semitronics, Inc.Description: The Department of Energy (DoE) issued changes to the requirements for determining pump energy for equipment driven by electric motors (10 CFR 429 and 431). The DoE issued a Notice of Proposed ...
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A compact solution for DSM food enzymes
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: DSM Food Specialities produces many specialty chemicals including food enzymes which help food manufacturers to get more out of their raw materials. In order to be able to guarantee the high quality ...
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The Glass Magazine
From: AMETEK LandDescription: Welcome to the first issue of AMETEK Land's new magazine for professionals working in the glass production industry. In this issue, you can discover more about AMETEK Land's products, the technology ...
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Designing Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Sources for Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials
From: Amp-Line Corp.Description: Selective concentration of human cancer cells using contactless dielectrophoresis This work is the first to demonstrate the ability of contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) to isolate target cell ...
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A Microfluidic System for Biological Particle Enrichment Using Contactless Dielectrophoresis
From: Amp-Line Corp.Description: A Microfluidic System for Biological Particle Enrichment Using Contactless Dielectrophoresis Hadi Shafiee,1,2 John L. Caldwell,2,3 and Rafael V. Davalos1,2,4 * 1 Department of Engineering Science and ...
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MSilica Nanoparticles Treated by Cold Atmospheric-Pressure Plasmas Improve the Dielectric Performance of Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites
From: Amp-Line Corp.Description: Microfluidic mixing using contactless dielectrophoresis The first experimental evidence of mixing enhancement in a microfluidic system using contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is presented in this ...
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Zipcar Technology
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: What with Omar's post of February 12th, and mine last week, it looks like February has been Car Technology Month here at Critical Link. We're really not all that car mad, it's just that there's so ...
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Positive Train Control
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In September 2008, a terrible collision between a freight train and a commuter train in California took twenty-five lives. Just last summer in Spain, a derailment caused by speeding, resulted in 80 ...
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The Internet of Health Care Things
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Often when we think of the Internet of Things, we're thinking about gadgets - cool items that make life easier (like my NEST thermostat), or stuff that's just plain fun (like my NEST thermostat). ...
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The Digitization of Medicine
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: 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. ...
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Large Scale Bulk Handling Project Boosts Gluten-Free Food Production at Bakery On Main
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: 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 ...
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Embedded Medical Devices: "A hacker's playground?"
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: 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. ...
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Bakery Case Study
From: Soft RoboticsDescription: Automation Challenge: Fresh Dough Handling Customer: Global Retail Pizza Company Integration Partner: ABI LTD ...
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Using Nitrogen Gas in Food Packaging?
From: GENERONDescription: 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 ...
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Determination of Fat and Oil Content in Foodstuffs
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: 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 ...
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Determination of Solid Fat Content in Edible Oils and Fats
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: 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. ...
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Measurement of Oil Content in Dried Palm Mesocarp
From: Oxford InstrumentsDescription: 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 ...
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Automation Team Slashes pH Maintenance Costs Using Rosemount Analytical Sensor Solutions
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, ...
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Measuring Oxygen on Oil Field Steam Flood Steam Generators
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 ...
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Pharmaceutical Company Slashes pH Maintenance Costs in Batch Fermentation
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 ...
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PUR-Sense Sensors: Pharmaceutical and Food and Beverage Applications
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 ...
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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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The Changing Landscape of Medicine & Healthcare
Description: Embracing the disruptive technologies of the future ...
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ADAS Simulation Under Severe Vibrations
From: Altair Engineering IncDescription: 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 ...
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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 ...
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A more efficient way to understand worldwide metal standards
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 ...
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The Critical Role of Chemistry in the Vehicles of Tomorrow
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, ...
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To Stamp Or Not To Stamp? That Is The Question
From: Hartford Steam BoilerDescription: 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Replicating Physiological Oxygen Levels in Cell Culturing - Does it Matter?
From: BakerDescription: How to better mimic cell physiology ...
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The Future of Magnetic Bead Resuspension
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 ...
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Solved Application Story #01 | Aerospace and Aviation
Description: HELI-CAL Flexure 2403 ...
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Solved Application Story #03 | Medical |
Description: HELI-CAL Flexure U-Joint 9491 ...
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Automotive Quality Standards 101: What Qualification Really Gets You
From: QorvoDescription: 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, ...
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What is Wash-down?
Description: A definition and description of wash-down and why it is important in the packaging industry ...
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FAQs
Description: FAQs A collection of questions that our custom solutions specialists are often asked. ...
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Glossary
Description: Glossary A mini dictionary of common tubing terms ...
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Why Custom Medical Tubing May Be Right For You
Description: Off-the-shelf or custom? What's right for you? ...