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Energy

Compact Pressure Sensors

For forklift trucks, telehandlers, and other logistical vehicles, the trend is moving toward more power in a smaller installation space and Rexroth supports this development with its PR4 series 10 pressure sensors. In...

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Technical Innovation
Transportation

Automation, Electrification Focus of ZF’s Innovation Tractor Prototype

The passenger-car industry may be driving development of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and electrification, but the off-highway segment may be...

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Automotive

Western Star Launches Extreme Duty Offroad Package, New 'Transformer' Chassis

Western Star is known for its tough vocational trucks and now offers an off-road product that competes with the articulated and rigid frame markets. The truck...

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Materials

Hemming of Thin Gauge AHSS Achieves Weight Savings

The Auto/Steel Partnership, a consortium of North American automotive companies and the Steel Market Development Institute's Automotive Applications Council, announced its Hemming of Thin...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Custom, High-Performance Mufflers

Modular Exhaust, a division of GLSV, features custom sizing for three different shapes of mufflers—circular, elongated, and rectangular—as well as custom-shaped non-modular mufflers, which are available...

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Electronics & Computers

All-Round View Camera System

The 360° Local Situational Awareness System (LSAS) from KTK Kommunikationstechnik and First Sensor consists of four digital HDR-CMOS cameras in specially adapted rugged housings and a software-based video...

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Electronics & Computers

Absolute Encoder Series

Baumer’s absolute HeavyDuty encoder series HMG 10 and PMG 10 offer a resilient housing, optimally spaced fixed/floating bearings on both sides, and generously sized hybrid ball bearings. These features provide...

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Test & Measurement

PXI Radio Frequency Multiplexers

Pickering Interfaces expands its range of PXI 50Ω 600MHz radio frequency (RF) multiplexers with 18 different configurations including a PXI two slot 32:1 configuration. This new range of PXI RF multiplexers...

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Articles
Power

Doing It Again — This Time With 10

Almost exactly a decade after Ford and General Motors initiated production of 6-speed planetary-gear automatics derived from the two companies’ first-ever transmission-development collaboration, the...

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Articles
Automotive

Large-scale Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Vehicle Prototyping

In model-based development of vehicle powertrains, through hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) to mule integration, a new enabling design tool is emerging from recent advances in...

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News
Design

New NXP System Drives Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles

Silicon suppliers are stepping up to help facilitate progress in the road to autonomous driving. NXP Semiconductors has unveiled its BlueBox, which handles sensor fusion, analysis...

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Defense

Fungus-Inspired Improvements in Battery Performance

Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional graphite electrodes for lithium-ion...

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News
RF & Microwave Electronics

2017 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Is Industry-First

Start of production for the plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivan begins in late 2016, marking a milestone as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)’s first mass-produced PHEV and the...

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Global Vehicles
Transportation

Shell Oil Unveils Radical City Car Concept

Oil companies typically don't announce concept city cars, but days ahead of the 2016 Beijing Motor Show, Shell did just that. A collaboration between Shell, Gordon Murray Design and Geo Technology,...

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Global Vehicles
Automotive

New Steel-Intensive Mazda CX-9 Sheds Mass, Debuts New Turbo System

For a mainstream unibody SUV, the 2016 Mazda CX-9 pulls off a neat trick—it adds premium content and features while losing weight compared with its predecessor. The design...

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Software

System Makes Airport Surface Traffic More Efficient

Researchers have developed an optimization system that identifies the optimal timing and taxiing sequences for runway use by a given aircraft. It plans detailed taxiing routes, recommends...

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Aerospace

NASA Tests Technologies to Increase Drone Uses

NASA researchers and drone industry representatives foresee a day when small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are used in wildfire spotting, precision agriculture, wildlife monitoring, and small...

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Editorial
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Disruption Is One Thing, But...

A late-spring brouhaha that developed between Tesla Motors and an intrepid reporter known for skeptical Tesla coverage blew over fairly quickly—but not before highlighting some unaccounted costs of...

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News
Propulsion

An X-Plane for Everyone?

Not too, too long ago very few amongst us ever thought we would need a phone that took pictures and video, while more recently, very few amongst us would ever not have a phone with such capabilities. Such...

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Product Briefs
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Closed-Loop Control for Metal 3D Printing

Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc., is highlighting its patented IRISS closed-loop control, which powers its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) systems. IRISS,...

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News
Automotive

BWI Tackles a Mounting Technology Challenge

Some auto manufacturers call it “downsizing," others insist on the term “rightsizing” as they doggedly pursue smaller engine designs that also include cylinder deactivation and stop-start...

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Technology Report
Materials

That 'New Car Smell' Is Forcing Interior Materials Changes

The sensory elements of smell, touch, sound, and sight are influencing material innovations for vehicle interiors more than ever.

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News
Electronics & Computers

New AUTOSAR Platform Offers More Freedom for Vehicle Electrical Architectures

Connectivity, advanced safety and autonomy are all altering electronic architectures, since they utilize controllers that communicate with each other more...

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Imaging

New Technique Could Improve Detection of Concealed Nuclear Materials

Researchers have demonstrated proof of concept for a novel low-energy nuclear reaction imaging technique designed to detect the presence of “special nuclear materials”...

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Electronics & Computers

Engineers Design Novel Multi-Field Invisible Sensor

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a novel camouflage technique that effectively hides thermal and electronic sensors without compromising...

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Photonics/Optics

Army Uses Technology to Increase Aerial Delivery Accuracy

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a new system that will enhance the capabilities of U.S. Army Pathfinders as they conduct aerial operations. In...

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Product Briefs
RF & Microwave Electronics

Lightweight Thermal Camera Core

Boson from FLIR Systems is a small, lightweight, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for OEMs. Boson is claimed to be the first thermal camera core to incorporate a sophisticated, low-power, multi-core...

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Product Briefs
Propulsion

Diesel Injector-Seat Cleaning Kit

A 17-piece kit from IPA Tools is designed to clean injector seats and bores on most light-, medium- and heavy-duty diesel engines. The kit is suited for removing carbon, rust and other debris from injector...

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