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TTI, Inc. Vice President of Quality to Speak at SMTA/CALCE Counterfeit Symposium
May 21, 2013 10:01 am | by TTI, Inc. | Tti, Inc. | News | CommentsTTI, Inc. Vice President Total Quality, Kevin Sink, is slated to speak at the SMTA/CALCE Electronic Parts and Supply Chain Counterfeit Symposium June 25-27, 2013, in College Park, Maryland on the University of Maryland campus.
Honeybees Trained to Find Land Mines
May 21, 2013 9:17 am | by Darko Bandic and Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press | News | CommentsMirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees.
Photos of the Day: Bomb Smelling Bees
May 21, 2013 9:16 am | by Darko Bandic and Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press | News | CommentsBees gather at the entrance of a hive during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines.
NASA's Curiosity Rover Drills Again
May 21, 2013 9:08 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder to its onboard laboratories later this week for analysis. Sunday's drill was the first major activity by Curiosity since it emerged from a monthlong hiatus.
NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-ray Navigation Technologies
May 21, 2013 9:06 am | by Lori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | News | CommentsPulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they’re technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds.
Non-Wetting Fabric Drains Sweat
May 21, 2013 9:00 am | by University of California, Davis | News | CommentsWaterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Davis. The new fabric works like human skin, forming excess sweat into droplets that drain away by themselves, said inventor Tingrui Pan, professor of biomedical engineering.
Iron-Platinum Alloys Could be New-Generation Hard Drives
May 21, 2013 8:55 am | by University of California - Davis | News | CommentsMeeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising material for a potential new generation of recording media is an alloy of iron and platinum with an ordered crystal structure.
Case Study: Reliability in Portable Sound Equipment
May 21, 2013 8:48 am | by NKK Switches | Nkk Switches, Inc. | Articles | CommentsProfessional Sound Corporation (PSC) has designed and manufactured highly portable, rugged audio equipment for the television and motion picture industries since 1986. The rigorous demands placed on PSC’s equipment present unique switching challenges that NKK’s switches have helped to overcome.
Judge Tosses Ex-BP Executive's Obstruction Charge
May 20, 2013 6:01 pm | by Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | News | CommentsA federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
CI Tools Aren’t Just for CI Events; They’re for Everyday
May 20, 2013 5:40 pm | by Alan Nicol, Executive Member, AlanNicolSolutions | Blogs | CommentsI write a great deal about the difference between Lean and Six Sigma and Kaizen on the production floor and in the office. We learn a great many continuous improvement tools in training, then we forget them because we aren’t CI experts. Don’t! Use them anytime.
Clutch Brake Delivers 78,000 Lb. In. of Torque
May 20, 2013 5:25 pm | by PD&D Staff | Force Control Industries, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsForce Control Industries (Fairfield, OH) has introduced the new Size 30 Posidyne Clutch Brake with “Oil Shear Technology” that can be operated as a clutch only for applications such as pumps or fans or as a clutch brake for cycling or indexing applications.
Low Ripple DC Tachometers
May 20, 2013 5:13 pm | by PD&D Staff | Servo2Go.com Ltd. | Product Releases | CommentsServo-Tek (Greenville, DE) Tach Generators provide a convenient means of converting rotational speed into an isolated analog voltage signal suitable for remote indication and control applications. Combining high accuracy with low driving torque, Servo-Tek tach generators are ideal for use in servo systems.
Panel: Apple Uses Firms Outside U.S. to Avoid Taxes
May 20, 2013 5:00 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsApple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish...
Flexible I/O for High Data Processing
May 20, 2013 4:48 pm | by PD&D Staff | Men Micro Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsMEN Micro Inc. (Ambler, PA) has announced a low power, rugged SBC that incorporates flexible I/O for demanding graphics environments. Using an Intel Atom processor running at 1.6 GHz, the new SC27 is compact, powerful and able to withstand harsh environments.
GM Giving Paid Internships to 110 HS Students
May 20, 2013 3:26 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsGeneral Motors is kicking the tires on a unique new internship program for Detroit-area high school students. GM has hired 110 students for paid summer internships, the automaker said Monday in announcing the formation of the GM Student Corps, a program that combines service, education and mentoring.
