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| | | Aeroscout Customer Viracon Named a Winner
| | | The glass manufacturer has been awarded top honors in the Managing Automation 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards in the category of operational excellence mastery for its asset tracking achievements across three facilities. |
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| The Vernier Scale Goes Digital
| | | Nonius interpolation provides excellent differential linearity and higher resolution for linear displacement measurement systems or rotary encoders. |
| | A New Breed of Tilt Sensors
| | | High accuracy at a low cost over a wide temperature range makes thermal MEMS accelerometers the hot choice in tilt sensing. Find out whether they're right for your application. |
| | Designing Intelligent 4–20 mA Transducers
| | | Modern industrial automation applications—such as PLCs, factory process control, and intelligent transmitters—all demand high-performance, low-power components. Current-mode data transmission is no exception. Intelligent 4–20 mA current-mode data transmission is the preferred technique in many industrial automation applications and is a well-established standard for communications between the host computer and smart/intelligent transmitters in harsh factory environments. This article describes intelligent transmitters and explains their need for high-resolution, low-power ADCs, DACs, and isolation devices. |
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| | Is Your Engine Weary?
| | | | Scientists at the University of Manchester, U.K., are developing a
new type of wireless sensor to remotely monitor mechanical parts
and systems and allow predictions of breakdowns in advance of
failure. |
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| Future Networks
| | | The next generation of networks will move beyond disconnected device-specific networks and systems and toward a distributed infrastructure, with intelligent functions residing across the entire network, from its edge to its core. |
| | Future Networks
| | | The next generation of networks will move beyond disconnected device-specific networks and systems and toward a distributed infrastructure, with intelligent functions residing across the entire network, from its edge to its core. |
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| | A Microflow-Based Differential Pressure Sensor
| | | This article describes prototypes of a novel thermoanemometer-type nanoliter-airflow sensor, integrated onchip with analog CMOS signal conditioning circuitry and with analog adjustability that allows accurate sensing of low differential pressures. |
| | Capacitive Sensor Operation Part I: The Basics
| | | Part 1 of this two-part article reviews the concepts and theory of capacitive sensing to help to optimize capacitive sensor performance. Part 2 of this article will discuss how to put these concepts to work. |
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