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Military market downturn and high price erosion have deeply affected traditional infrared imaging margins for the past few years at both sensor and camera levels says Yole.

The 130,000 square foot facility is expected to grow from 550 employees currently to 2,000 employees within the next 5 years.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Manufacturers worldwide are in a productivity race enabled by a wide range of new automation technology. In order for your company to remain competitive, it needs to apply new technology to grow and survive in the world economy. To do this, manufacturing companies must stay up to date on the latest developments.

X-Scan robot inspects ship welds by means of laser, ultrasound and electromagnetic methods, similar to systems developed by Babcock & Wilcox in the 1970s to check nuclear reactor welds.

Watlow added 25,000 square feet to its R&D facility in San Jose, California, adding a Class 1000 clean room.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Fluke recently introduced Fluke Connect, a system which allows maintenance technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones. There is a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. To date, from what I have seen on the market, Fluke Connect is the most useful, productivity-increasing industry solution based on these technologies.

Sensors Expo will be taking place June 9-11, 2015 in Long Beach, California at the Long Beach Convention Center.

TSI Solutions is a factory automation systems house located in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial control systems are the “brains” of any automated manufacturing system. Many of these systems require motion systems - “brawn” - to accomplish the physical aspects of automation. Motion technologies have improved and are refined to meet the new manufacturing requirements. MDA North America provides the opportunity for engineers to sharpen motion knowledge and learn from industry experts first hand.

Attendees at Sensors Expo who download the Sensors Mobile App can explore specific areas of the show through the scavenger hunt and collect points for each emBeacon they encounter.

Established in 1974 in Cambridge, UK, the company started off in a small building with just a few employees but now has three manufacturing locations and several offices in ten countries.

Condition monitoring systems on two ships operated by United European Car Carriers (UECC) are installed in the ships’ engine control rooms to monitor the vibration behaviour of the engine gearboxes.

Integrated Memory Logic is a fabless semiconductor company, which develops and markets application specific analog, power management, and mixed signal integrated circuits.

Newport has supplied high-precision test, measurement, process control and automation instrumentation for more than four decades.

The monitoring project, which ran for five months, was aimed at investigating unexplained causes of moisture damage, wood decay and fungal growth found behind cladding and sheathing in ground-floor walls throughout the unnamed complex.

The gauge is used to monitor the thickness of the coatings on the electrodes that are main components of lithium-ion batteries.

The training center at Gibson Engineering in Norwood, Mass., will serve customers in the Northeastern U.S.

Two laser line displacement sensors from Micro-Epsilon are mounted to a purpose-built handling and processing machine manufactured by Behr Systems.

By installing condition monitoring systems from Schaeffler on 56 wind turbines, Spanish renewable energy provider Geolica is making significant annual cost savings.

Guide describes sensors for displacement, distance, position and length measurement, 2D/3D laser sensors for dimensional measurements, colour sensors, non-contact temperature sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and measurement and inspection systems.