Day: February 8, 2017
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Silicon Designs adds new features to its 2210 accelerometer
Silicon Designs has upgraded its Model 2210 series of accelerometer chips to include measurement capabilities on one, two, or three orthogonal axes. Silicon Designs is veteran-owned small business and industry expert in the design, development and manufacture of highly rugged industrial-grade MEMS capacitive accelerometer chips and modules. Accelerometers is an electromechanical device used to measure acceleration…
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Product testing: There’s a collaborative industrial robot for that
How do you make sure that a product can handle the wear and tear of an expected life cycle and that all safety and quality standards are met? You test it. Over and over again. Nothing is more repetitive than product testing – lending itself to one of the “3D jobs” that robots excel at:…
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Dealing with legacy systems in industry
Nick Boughton, sales manager at Boulting Technology, discusses best practice for obsolescence management from a systems integrator point of view The control system in a factory is what a motor is to a car, and when something is amiss, the systems integrator will analyse, design, fit and test, to make sure the system is better…
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Visual evidence shows brain ‘resetting’ during sleep
MedicalNewsToday.com: New research shows microscopic images of synapses expand with daytime stimulation and shrink with sleep, thus resetting the brain for the next day.