Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and complete subsystems, based on silicon, gallium arsenide and silicon ...
Lock Inspection Systems has unveiled a new metal detection system targeting tablets and capsules The BottleChek product incorporates Lock’s OPTIX detector management software and signature DDS (Direct Digital Signal) vector image ...
Tags: BottleChek product, Direct Digital Signal, packaging line
Vishay has introduced a surface mount proximity sensor that can pick up objects 200mm away. Called VCNL30204, the 4.85x2.35x0.83mm devices includes lenses, an IR emitter, PIN photodiode, a 16bit ADC and a signal processing IC. ...
Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
Tags: silicon carbide, graphene, nanoribbon structures, bandgaps, energy bands
Sofradir of Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe) for military, space and commercial applications, has agreed to acquire the infrared (IR) detector technology development and ...
Tags: Sofradir, infrared detectors, IR detectors, Sagem, InSb, QWIP
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada says that its US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT has produced an integrated laser device, achieving a key milestone in its Planar Optoelectronic Technology ...
Tags: OPEL, ODIS, POET, integrated laser device, VCL
Wisconsin Oven designed and manufactured a gas fired industrial draw batch oven with a powered load table for a company that repairs and refurbishes generators and steam or combustion turbines. The draw batch oven is used for stress ...
Tags: heat treating oven, operating temperature, motor starters
PTI Inspection Systems is displaying a range of packaging solutions, including packaging machinery and testing systems, at trade show Pack Expo in Chicago. The company's Packaging Systems business unit is introducing a new rotary form, ...
Tags: PTI Packaging Systems, Topak, PTI Inspection Systems, SmartPac, HVLD
French general insurer MAAF Assurances has selected Sigfox's low throughput communications network for its new fire and/or intrusion alert service, MAAF self-monitoring solution. To be provided along with Sigfox network from January ...
LED lighting seems to be forging ahead, and rightly so as it offers massive savings, but it's still not quite the only game in town. … more efficient halogen lighting and automation of existing interior installations using PIR ...
Tags: Timeguard, LED lighting, LED floodlighting
Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched a receiver (Rx) and ...
Ishida,a technology company,has claimed that its iTPS snack packing system,which integrates both weighing and bag making technologies,provides higher efficiencies than those lines that utilise separate machines. The snack packing system ...
Tags: snack packing system, efficiencies, wastage
Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray, the Product Inspection division of Mettler-Toledo has developed a new X-ray system for pharmaceutical and food manufacturers, which gives the same level of foreign body detection sensitivity as a traditional ...
Tags: X-ray system, Inspection division, packaged products inspection
Thermo Fisher Scientific,a US based life sciences company,has introduced a range of machines for the Latin American market,which are designed to address weighing and product contamination issues in the food industry. The new machines ...
US-based Videojet Technologies, a manufacturer of coding, printing and laser marking products, has launched the Videojet 3020 laser coder, to simply marking and code applications in the consumer packaged goods and industrial products ...
Tags: laser marking products, laser coder, package coding applications