Geotab, a global positioning system fleet management and vehicle tracking firm, has introduced its OBD fleet management system in association with mobile telecommunications provider O2 in the UK. With this, O2, a commercial brand of ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, auto parts, truck, engine indicators
Global developer of motor and motion control technologies Trinamic Motion Control has announced its latest single-axis stepper motor control and driver IC. The TMC2100, with integrated MOSFETs to drive RMS motor current to 1.2A, is ...
Tags: auto accessories, motorcycle parts, driver IC, motor control
German automotive major Daimler Trucks has picked up share in US logistics, telematics and connectivity solutions firm Zonar Systems for designing fully-connected vehicles and providing value-adding data for truck drivers and operators. ...
Tags: automobile production, car manufacture, Daimler Trucks
The Houston-based Communitas Auto Group has opened its first Auto-Lab Complete Car Care Centers location in Spring, Texas. Auto-Lab Gleannloch Farms is the first of three locations to open in the greater Houston Texas area this year. The ...
Tags: Communitas Auto Group, Auto-Lab
Advanced infotainment systems, over-the-air (OTA) updates, big data analytics, mobility services and in-car security are key technologies that will shape the global connected car market in 2015. Human machine interface (HMI) input and ...
Tags: Advanced Telematics, Connected Car
Scratches, abrasions, deformations and breakages of containers on packaging lines have negative consequences for line efficiency, cost efficiency and/or brand image. So Gebo has added two new options to its range of audits, “shocks ...
Tags: Solve Packaging, Packaging
Packaging machine company Theegarten-Pactec will be showcasing its new design-optimized CWM2 packaging machine for chocolate products at this year's IPACK-IMA, scheduled to be held from May 19-23 in Italy. The machine has been designed ...
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on April 3, 2015 Robert Cascella was previously CEO of Hologic. He joins Philips as the Dutch multinational increasingly focuses on what it calls HealthTech. Robert Cascella, who ...
Tags: Philips, LED components, Medicine
In its recently updated roadmap document (first published in 2011, and last updated in 2013), the Joint European Platform for Photonic Integration of Components and Circuits (JePPIX) predicts a €1bn market size for PIC-enabled products ...
Tags: Magnolia Solar Flexible CIGS, foundry approach, Electronics
In booth 1947 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition (OFC 2015) in Los Angeles (24-26 March), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, ...
Tags: Laser Driver, Next-Gen PON
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has announced its third-generation chipset for 100Gbps Ethernet data-center and cloud ...
Tags: Ethernet Chipset, GigOptix, semiconductor
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Today, Metromile and Uber announced an innovative partnership to provide variably-priced, pay-per-mile auto insurance for drivers who use Uber's rideshare platform. The two companies have jointly developed the first technology solution that ...
Tags: Pay-Per-Mile Insurance, Auto
k-Space Associates Inc of Dexter, MI, USA (which supplies instrumentation and software for surface science and thin-film technology applications) says that it is supplying thin-film metrology tools to the photovoltaic industry in an effort ...
Tags: Thin-Film Metrology Tools, Solar Panel Production, Electrical
SMC Ltd., a medical device contract manufacturer with locations in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, Costa Rica, and India, announced an expansion and move to a 210,000 sq. ft. facility in Devens, MA. The expansion will ...
Tags: high-speed automation, testing, kitting, Health