An International research team including scientists from the Tyndall National Institute have developed a highly sensitive toxicity testing system. They believe it could provide a replacement for animal testing in toxicity screening. The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe, launched the Toxichip yesterday in Cork to mark the beginning of Nanoweek, a week-long celebration […]
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Laser Meter has Millimeter Accuracy
WayCon’s new Laser Distance Meter LLD can measure distances with millimeter accuracy, define positions, measure fill levels and register motion processes. The LLD Series is a opto-electronic distance meter designed for industrial applications. Measurements up to 150 m and can be performed precisely, fast and in a non-contact fashion using the comparative phase shift method. […]
New Thermal Converters Announced
Precision Measurements has just introduced the EL-1000 series of thermal converters manufactured with the company’s most advanced high-accuracy vacuum thermocouple. The design substantially reduces the AC/DC transfer errors. The series EL-1000 thermal converters are designed for measuring AC current and voltages up to 1mhz. Due to increased demand for high-accuracy AC voltage and current measurements […]
Turbine Meter Provides Leak Detection
Flow Technology today announced the FT-LD (Leakage Detection) turbine flow meter system. This advanced solution offers significant improvements in flow measurement accuracy under dynamic temperature conditions. The FT-LD system provides inferred mass measurements for leakage detection by correcting for temperature effects on fluid volume. Today’s industrial companies must ensure the ruggedness and reliability of every […]
SICK Launches New Bar Code Scanners
SICK today announced the launch of its CLV650 bar code scanners with autofocus technology and the CLV640 bar code scanners with dynamic focus. These new bar code scanners augment SICK’s CLV600 family of flexible and easy-to-use 1D bar code scanners. With a simple setup process, exceptional reading performance and flexible data handling capabilities, these scanners […]
Handheld Spectrolightmeter
Gigahertz-Optik’s BTS256-LED Tester is designed to measure the luminous flux, color and spectral characteristics of pc board mounted LEDs, discrete LEDs within a module, miniature lamps, endoscopes and any narrow beam emitting light source. Larger size light sources can be measured by attaching the LED tester to a Gigahertz-Optik integrating sphere. Plus illuminance can be […]
Optical Testing Device from Yokogawa
Yokogawa has released the AQ2200 multi-application test system, designed for measuring and evaluating a wide range of optical devices and optical transmitters. The AQ2211 and AQ2212 frame controllers are central to the system and incorporate a variety of measurement functions and applications. According to the company, remote monitoring and measurement is available via the included […]
Testing Provides Roadmap to Intelligent Assembly
“Intelligent assembly” is an approach to quality that shifts the focus from ever-tighter dimensional tolerances to consistent function in the final assembly. It’s based on the use of servo devices and sensors to monitor the assembly operation in real-time, and computer software to determine when the product meets acceptable functional parameters. Proponents of Intelligent Assembly […]
Automated Gearbox Testing builds in Consistency
Ann Arbor, MI – The U.S. military has demanding requirements for the hardware it needs. Take, for instance, a set of gearboxes built by Excel Gear Inc., Roscoe, Ill, (excelgear.com) for missile launchers on the U.S. Navy’s new DDG1000 series of ships. The gearboxes are drive elements for the servo systems that rotate and elevate […]
Peerless Precision in Remote Measurements
By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a laser ranging system that can pinpoint multiple objects with nanometer precision over distances up to 100 kilometers. The novel LIDAR (“light detection and […]
