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EOS and MTU Advance Quality Measures for Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing

EOS and MTU Aero Engines have partnered to develop quality-assurance measures for metal engine components using additive manufacturing (AM), signing a framework...

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Aerospace

Multi-Spectral Targeting System

L-3 WESCAMBurlington, Ontario, Canada905-633-4000www.wescam.com The MX™-15D designating turret from L-3 WESCAM was successfully used during a weapons demonstration on the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor...

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Defense

Radar-Based Threat Detection

Rapiscan Systems Torrance, CA 310-978-1457 www.rapiscansystems.com Rapiscan Systems recently announced the addition of CounterBomber, a radar-based threat-detection technology, to its portfolio of security products....

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Defense

Floating Armor Torso System

BCB International Ltd. Cardiff, UK +44 (0)2920 433 700 www.bcbin.com A Floating Armor Torso System (FATS), designed for marine-based forces, inflates when coming into contact with water. If the wearer were to be shot...

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Products
Materials

Silicon Carbide Foam

Silicon carbide (SiC) foam from Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) provides the exceptional hardness, high-temperature durability and performance of solid silicon carbide, but in a lightweight foam structure. The matrix of cells...

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Products
Software

Dual-Node, Short-Depth 4U Chassis

Advantech (Irvine, CA) has launched the 4U, dual-node, short-depth (350mm), industrial chassis ACP-4D00 designed for machine automation applications that require two computers in one piece of equipment. The...

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Products
Defense

Custom 19” Fan Tray

Verotec (Derry, NH) recently custom designed intelligent fan trays for a major defence project. The 19-inch rackmounted 1U trays have six fans, strategically located within the tray to maximise the cooling of critical...

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Products
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Signal Conditioning Modules

Precision Filters Inc. (Ithaca, NY) has introduced a new family of signal conditioning modules for measurement systems built on National Instruments™ rugged, compact, low power cRIO™ platform. The four analog...

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Products
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Flange Couplings

RINGFEDER POWER TRANSMISSION (Westwood, NJ) has announced the launch of its new RfN 5571 series flange coupling for heavy industry. RINGFEDER® flange couplings provide a superior solution to standard press fits. Equipped with...

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Products
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Digital Meter

The New Technology Meter (NTM) from OTEK (Tucson, AZ) has everything you need to measure and control your process while operating with less than 50mW of power. OTEK’s NTM boasts a full tricolor bargraph with 2% resolution and...

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Products
Defense

Virtual Environment Tool Chain

The DiSTI Corporation (Orlando, FL) has commercialized their scalable tool chain and process for producing 3-D virtual maintenance training environments. Previously only available in conjunction with DiSTI’s...

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Products
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Rugged 1U MicroTCA Chassis Platform

VadaTech (Henderson, NV) now offers a rugged 6-slot MicroTCA chassis in a 1U height designed to meet MIL-STD- 901D and 810G for shock and vibration and MIL-STD-461F for EMI. The VT950 holds up to 6 Advanced...

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Products
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Titanium/Composites Brazing

Morgan Advanced Materials (Windsor, UK) announced that it now has the capability to braze carbon fiber, ceramics, composites, or other engineered materials directly to a titanium honeycomb. Carbon fiber and other...

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Products
Defense

8-Channel Portable Serial Recorder

Pentek, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has announced a new recorder for the popular family of Talon® recording systems: the Model RTR 2736A multi-channel Serial FPDP (sFPDP) rugged portable recorder, suitable...

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Technology Report
Materials

Brunel Pursues Ultrasound for ‘Greener’ Production of Aluminum Alloys

Treating molten metal with ultrasound is cleaner and more efficient than using argon rotary degassing to produce high-quality castings, according to scientists at...

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Technology Report
Electronics & Computers

Cloud Computing Gets More Support, Skepticism from Design Teams

Cloud computing can provide a quick way for companies to share design tools and shorten their development cycles, but many companies remain cautious about moving to the cloud....

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News
Automotive

Denso Exhibits More Compact HVAC Design at NAIAS

The space under the dashboard is precious, and the less that is used for componentry, the more that remains for passenger space in the cabin. But there's one system that presently takes up a...

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Product Briefs
Electronics & Computers

Embedded Motor Control

An ARM-based embedded power family of bridge drivers from Infineon Technologies offers assimilation for intelligent motor control in various automotive applications. A single chip integrates a high-performance...

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News
Power

GKN Develops Electric Flywheel Hybrid System for Buses

The core of GKN’s Gyrodrive flywheel hybrid system was developed by Williams Hybrid Power for a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) designed for the Williams F1 team. GKN acquired...

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Technology Report
Electronics & Computers

Ford Accelerates Research on 48-V Mild Hybrid Systems

The “sweet spot” between the capability and efficiency of 200-V plus systems and the low cost of 12-V stop-start in future hybrid systems will likely use a belt-driven electric machine...

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Technology Report
Energy

GM Fuel Cell Powers U.S. Navy Sub as Collaboration with Honda Aims for Cars by 2020

General Motors’ hydrogen fuel cell development program has been operating in “stealth” mode in recent years, as the collaboration with Honda quietly...

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Global Vehicles
Automotive

Nissan Debuts Front-Engine, Front-Drive GT-R LM Nismo Racecar

“Outrageousness.” It was the signature line of 1980s Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon, the self-described “punky QB.”

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News
Power

Focus on Alternative Powertrain Technologies for ICPC 2015

Every two years AVL organizes the International Commercial Powertrain Conference, a major event for the on- and off-highway commercial vehicle industries. On May 20-21, 2015, experts...

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Electronics & Computers

SanDisk Targets Infotainment with Automotive-Grade Flash

Conventional vehicle radios are morphing into increasingly powerful infotainment systems, prompting a need for storage to hold apps, navigation, and other data. Flash storage supplier...

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Original Equipment
Energy

Western Star Focuses on Efficiency for New 5700XE

Fuel efficiency is increasingly becoming a significant driver in truck OEMs’ vehicle development plans, and that certainly was the case when Western Star set out to develop the all-new...

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Technical Innovation
Connectivity

Cybersecurity, Safety Issues Require Government/industry Cooperation

Two days after serving as the “designated survivor” during President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx served as...

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Automotive

Audi’s Tunnel of Light Leads to the Future

Audi is seeing light at the end of its new research tunnel; and it is a laser. But not just any laser: this is a matrix laser that the Volkswagen brand is confident illuminates the way forward in...

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