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Aqua America’s existing alarm notification system at the PA facility was experiencing frequent failures, which eventually lead to a catastrophic failure of the entire alarm notification system. Aqua America turned to TopView Alarm and Notification software for their new platform.

Artila’s wireless IoT gateway Matrix-702 is a low-power consumption, choice, as a data transmission from wired to wireless network, for various remote monitoring applications.

With the measurement of compressed and non-corrosive gases, it displays three parameters at once by measuring the flow, pressure, and temperature.

The OleumTech H Series Smart Pressure Transmitters (PT’s) are intended for industrial markets including petrochemical, chemical, power, upstream oil & gas, and wastewater.

The report Contextualizing Sustainable Development Research, which was produced by Digital Science’s Consultancy Group led by Dr Juergen Wastl, looks at the state of the world’s research on the UN’s SDG’s. It finds that more than 500,000 publications were published in 2019 relating to the 17 SDGs, constituting around 10 percent of the world’s total research output.

Business leaders are often disconnected from their company's functional safety posture in reality. Here are some quick tips to help improve safety culture.

We asked a few of the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance founding members why they decided to join, and their answers were insightful.

By Jim Kilmer Combining 5G and edge computing can give manufacturers more from their technology—simply put, better factories and better products

The embedded board is suited for applications such as medical imaging, video surveillance, 3D simulators, optical quality control, digital signage, kiosks/POI, thin clients, and more.

L-com has introduced a line of RG178 coaxial cable assemblies for use in RF communications, data transmission, wireless communication, GPS systems, security equipment, broadcast equipment and lab applications.

The Seifert Peltier thermoelectric cooling units can be mounted in nearly every position (except roof mounting) because they don't have a compressor or any moving parts aside from the fans.

The DSP221 is an extension of the legacy DSP220, by refreshing to the NXP T2081 quad core processor. The DSP221 delivers a solution toward achieving production lifetime.

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This GPU computer provides computing capability which is suitable for applications like edge computing, machine vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.

ArchiTek is a development environment that enables engineers to add FPGA IP to recording systems, such as threshold detection, spectral filtering, digital down-conversion, signal classification, demodulation and many other digital signal processing techniques.

ST’s n rad-hard rectifiers and Schottky diodes are guaranteed by characterization to resist a total ionizing dose (TID) up to 3 Mrad (Si). The voltage drop is guaranteed at four values of operating current to let multiple different power-supply designs use a single device type.

Applications include assembly, metal fabrication (pressing, punching, clamping), automotive manufacturing, timber processing, motion simulators and more.

Available off-the-shelf in travel lengths of: 600 mm (23.622 in.), 700 mm (27.559 in.), 800 mm (31.496 in.), 900 mm (35.433 in.), and 1000 mm ( 39.370 in.), these stages are available with either a Two-Phase Stepper Motor or with a Three-Phase Brushless Motor with a Quadrature Incremental Optical Encoder.

The Creform System is used to create an array of material handling and efficiency enhancing devices and is a proven component in continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing programs. The company partners with customers in developing and implementing these programs.

The resulting data shows vendor management and contract negotiation are particularly time-consuming endeavors for IT professionals. Half (50%) reported they work with 11 or more different vendors and nearly half (48%) claim they can spend weeks, or months, renegotiating vendor contracts each year.