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New ZigBee Green Power Feature Set Revealed
New energy harvesting, no battery required feature set expands ZigBee networks.
Aeroscout Customer Viracon Named a Winner
The glass manufacturer has been awarded top honors in the Managing Automation 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards in the category of operational excellence mastery for its asset tracking achievements across three facilities.
NI Announces USB Device and Sensor Suite
The new products provide a complete sound and vibration stimulus response system from a single vendor.
PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Corrosion Monitoring
By using fiber-optic sensors to measure wall thickness, gas pipeline operators can track and monitor how quickly pipelines are corroding. Linking the sensors to networked monitoring instrumentation allows them to do this remotely.
Monitoring Industrial-Machinery Lubricants
By keeping tabs on your equipment's lubricating fluids, you can prolong the operating life of your machinery and reduce the cost of ownership.
Keeping Cool
If you've ever worked while resting a laptop computer on your lap, you know that computers emit heat, and the more powerful the computer, the greater the heat produced. This is a problem because electronics really don't enjoy elevated temperatures. A hot computer is a slow computer or, worse, a computer that will cease functioning.
PROCESS AUTOMATION
Corning Extends Fusion Process to Touch-Screen Applications
Scratch-resistant Gorilla glass provides an ultra-durable screen for handheld devices without compromising image quality.
Optimizing Motion Control—Getting the Most from Resolvers
To take full advantage of the resolver's potential, you have to compensate for error sources. Simulating resolver and cable functions go a long way toward helping you achieve this goal.
Advances in IR Temperature Measurement
The latest developments in IR sensors not only help you optimize your manufacturing processes and business operations but also enable you to meet industry standards for final product quality and reliability.
FLOW SENSING
Improving Doppler-Based Sensing Systems
By incorporating high-performance digital signal controllers (DSCs), with their integrated architectures and small footprints, designers can simplify Doppler-based sensing systems, enhance their performance, and reduce development cycles.
Measuring Viscosity with a Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor
Viscosity, the resistance of a liquid to flow, is an important measurement requirement in industrial process control and OEM applications. Viscosity describes the retarding force that is proportional to the rate of deformation. This so-called shear rate has units of s?1 and describes the cross-stream gradient of the flow speed.
LEVEL & LEAK DETECTION
The Hidden Costs of Compressed Air/Gas Leaks
Leaks are bad news. Not only do they lessen your process efficiency, but they can also present a danger to the environment and your personnel. Here's why you should perform regular leak audits and how to approach the auditing process.
A Novel Fiber-Optic Fluid Interface Sensor
This article presents the proof-of-principle of a new sensor capable of detecting the position of the interface between two fluids.
Hydrogen-Specific Sensing for Industrial Process Control and Safety
Monitoring hydrogen in the process industries is important for both process optimization and for safety. H2Scan has developed inline, solid-state palladium-nickel-based sensors that are highly selective to hydrogen, do not require oxygen to operate, and can detect hydrogen in concentrations from a few ppm to 100%.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Capacitive Sensor Operation Part II: System Optimization
Part 2 of this two-part article focuses on how to optimize the performance of your capacitive sensor, and to understand how target material, shape, and size will affect the sensor's response.
Capacitive Sensor Operation Part I: The Basics
Part 1 of this two-part article reviews the concepts and theory of capacitive sensing to help to optimize capacitive sensor performance. Part 2 of this article will discuss how to put these concepts to work.
The Hidden Costs of Compressed Air/Gas Leaks
Leaks are bad news. Not only do they lessen your process efficiency, but they can also present a danger to the environment and your personnel. Here's why you should perform regular leak audits and how to approach the auditing process.
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