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Sierra Nevada Breathes Life into D328, Determined to Make It Fly Again, and Evolve
Some 10 years since being out of production (some might say even nearly 15 years if one considers the demise of the plane’s originator), the Dornier 328,...
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3D Printers
Old World Labs introduces two 3D printers in its MC Series, delivering precision and accuracy with improved resolution. The MC-1 and MC-2 are available through a service plan subscription, allowing users to upgrade the hardware as...
News Electronics & Computers
Electromechanical Joining System
Kistler offers a joining system comprising maXYmos numeric control (NC), the IndraDrive servo amplifier, and NC joining modules monitors and controls. Featuring an intuitive touch screen, the system integrates...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Image Sensor
Melexis introduces the MLX75421 Blackbird third-generation automotive image sensor. The high dynamic range (HDR) sensor features on-chip functional safety (ASIL) support for applications including automatic emergency braking,...
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Cat Designs Its 336F L XE Hybrid Excavator with Building-Block Technologies
Caterpillar says its 336F L XE Hybrid delivers an estimated fuel savings of up to 20% compared with its standard 336 counterpart with no compromise in performance...
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Johnson Controls Invests in LTU Research Lab
The newly named Johnson Controls Vehicle Engineering Systems Laboratory recognizes the supplier’s investment in a Lawrence Technological University (LTU) lab that will serve as a vital link to...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
New Technology for Exhausting Jobs
As the Chief Technologist for Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (FECT) in North America, Andy Pontius leads a product development team of 35 technical specialists. They are the application link for...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Flight Propulsion Goes Electric
Somehow, the sight of an airplane wing perching incongruously atop a big-rig truck tractor that’s rumbling across a dry lake bed at dawn might not seem particularly significant to the future of aviation....
News Automotive
Volvo Penta Debuts Two New Off-Highway Engines
Volvo Penta offered up at Intermat the latest additions to its engine lineup: new 5- and 8-L off-highway diesel engines.
Product Briefs Materials
Nanotube Additive
Zyvex Technologies announces the Zyvex Nanotube Technology (ZNT) product family. Available online, ZNT is a polymer-modified carbon nanotube additive for a range of host matrices including epoxies, elastomers, thermoplastics,...
News Propulsion
Audi Evolves the Miller Cycle in Its New 2.0-L Spark-Ignition Engine
Audi’s next generation A4 due later this year will be the first model to receive a new 2.0-L engine that takes gasoline spark-ignition technology a step further towards...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Temp Dual Valve Controller
A new dual input, dual output valve controller from Axiomatic is operational up to 125°C (257°F) and suitable for installation under the hood of mobile equipment, including agricultural and heavy-duty...
News Defense
Propulsion Performance Model for Efficient Supersonic Aircraft
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
News Power
Controlling Engines with Virtual Sensors
The most efficient engines today, gasoline or diesel, are complex machines, with variable valve timing and lift, direct injection, turbocharging, and various flavors of exhaust gas recirculation...
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Compact UV Lasers Could ID Substances from a Distance
For soldiers in the field, the ability to identify an object or substance based on how it responds to light could mean the difference between life and death. They could, for example,...
INSIDER Defense
Army Equips Vehicles With Electronic Stability Control
Soldiers laud the ballistic protection Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that protect them against underbody threats, but now a brand-new MRAP feature, the first of its kind...
INSIDER Defense
Sandia Labs Uses Davis Gun to Test B61-12 Bomb
Three years of design, planning, and preparation came down to a split second, a loud boom and an enormous splash in a successful impact test of hardware in the nose assembly of an unarmed, mock...
News Propulsion
Kohler Extends Its Hand in Off-Highway Diesels
According to Kohler Engines, its new KDI 3404 model completes its platform of KDI diesel engines, which now range across three models from 30 to 100 kW (40 to 134 hp). The 3404 reaches 100 kW...
News Automotive
Hino Tweaks Materials to Improve Wear Resistance of Synchromesh Gears, Sleeves by 45%
Performance improvements in commercial vehicles (CVs) that serve to reduce driver fatigue as well as increase comfort and operability are important in the...
News Electronics & Computers
Sound the Alarm
Lane keeping and adaptive cruise control combine to let humans relax on highways and in traffic jams, but people are still needed to maintain safety when situations stray from normalcy. Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are...
News Motion Control
Stability Control Boosts Motorcycle Safety
As happened in cars, electronic safety technology for motorcycles is tracing a course starting with anti-lock brakes, continuing through traction control, and arriving eventually at full electronic stability control.
News Transportation
Jaguar Turns Marketing Speak into Engineering Reality for XE
“We have a very clear definition of our brand’s DNA, and if you drove all our products consecutively, you would be able to experience that through every one,” Jaguar Land...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Gaze-Directed Headlights Could Be on Horizon
Getting behind the wheel of a car is the riskiest thing that most people do every day, safety statistics say. And highway hazards only get worse at nighttime when about a half of fatal road...
News Power
Alternative Drive System for Wacker Neuson’s Smallest Excavator
At this year’s Intermat, Dieter Freisler, Regional President, Wacker Neuson, emphasized that the company plans in the future to “always have double digit growth,” and...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Connectivity Forces Business Model Changes
As connectivity and eventually autonomous driving become more common, the auto industry may evolve to focus more on car sharing and gaining revenue from connected services. That will require...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
John Deere's MDT Allows Users to Make Data-Driven Decisions
John Deere has added a new tool within MyJohnDeere to make data transfer in the field easier. Mobile Data Transfer (MDT) allows customers to wirelessly transfer agronomic data to...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Haptic Feedback Is Key to Continental’s New Anti-Distraction Touch Screen
Can haptic feedback help reduce the driver distraction that is associated with operating in-vehicle touch screens? Continental Automotive engineers believe it can....
Articles Aerospace
Maximizing Thermal Cooling Efficiencies in High-Performance Processors
Despite the continuous development of new, higher performing processors, the thirst for increased embedded computing capability remains unquenched. In fact, it seems like...
Articles Aerospace
Stand-Off Scanning and Pointing with Risley Prisms
With the ever increasing threat of improvised explosive devices, both in the military arena and the civilian realm, there is a growing demand for technologies with the ability to detect...
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