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New Line of Low-Cost Terminal Blocks
May 21, 2013 12:36 pm | by PD&D Staff | Product Releases | CommentsAutomationDirect’s product offering now includes the Konnect-It line of terminal blocks and accessories. The product line features Konnect-It single-level terminal blocks, double-level terminal blocks, triple-level terminal blocks, miniature terminal blocks, and fuse holder and disconnect terminal blocks.
DC-UPS Solutions for Today's Smart Grid Technology
May 21, 2013 12:22 pm | by PD&D Staff | Power Sources Unlimited Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsPower Sources Unlimited (Wrentham, MA) has introduced the DC-UPS system. The power product portfolio includes 6 unique series of DIN-Rail, Wall or 1U rack-mount uninterruptible power supplies. These modular lines of DC-UPS systems provide a high-reliability power source even under unstable AC power conditions.
Interpreting the Human Genome
May 21, 2013 11:44 am | by Silicon Mechanics | Articles | CommentsWhen Knome needed a turnkey hardware platform for its knoSOFT genome interpretation application and kGAP informatics engine, it turned to Seattle-based solutions provider Silicon Mechanics. The result was the knoSYS100, which is a combination of Knome’s software and a hardware platform configured by Silicon Mechanics.
North Star Imaging Releases efX-CT 1.6 & efX-DR 1.0
May 21, 2013 11:12 am | by North Star Imaging | News | CommentsNorth Star Imaging has unveiled its latest versions of Computed Tomography and Digital Radiography software – efX-CT 1.6 and efX-DR 1.0. These releases feature many new capabilities that are industry firsts and not available anywhere else in the marketplace. The new software releases focus heavily on speed, automation, and image quality.
New Coilcraft CPS Short Form
May 21, 2013 10:25 am | by Coilcraft CPS | News | CommentsThe Coilcraft CPS Short Form Catalog is a comprehensive reference to the company’s four lines of RF and power magnetics for critical applications. This 24-page catalog presents detailed specifications on magnetic components for a wide range of applications, including signal generation and processing, RF, power, impedance matching, LED drivers, timing and much more.
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.
