Admittedly, when I saw that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas president Ed Smith would give an “Unplugged” presentation at last fall’s Electronic Components Industry Association Executive Conference, I smiled thinking ...
Tags: Industry Change, Electronics
Field networking, such as EtherCAT, POWERLINK, CANopen, and MECHATROLINK, are growing in popularity, replacing traditional motion control communications such as ±10 V, or pulse trains. In the diagram below, the left side represents ...
Tags: field networking, Network System, quick fixes, machine panel
On December 31st, 2013, SolarWorld Industries America Inc. filed an application to Department of Commerce and United States International Trade Commission (USITC), asking the associations to investigate PV cells imported from both Mainland ...
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VeriFone Systems, Inc. announced that The Jones Group Inc. has selected VeriFone solutions to enable mobile payment acceptance and enhance customer experience for its internationally recognized brands, including Jones New York and Nine ...
Tags: Mobile Payment Acceptance, Textile
The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech ...
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Cannon Technologies, the award-winning international leader in innovative containment and 19” cabinet systems, has announced a landmark distribution agreement with Polyrack Tech-Group, the leading German manufacturer of subracks, ...
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Jaclyn O'Laughlin WASHINGTON – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is close to releasing proposals to require electronic logging devices in all trucks and to establish a clearinghouse of positive drug and alcohol tests ...
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"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, ...
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Two Utah cousins, disgusted with news reports that 1-in-6 cellphones contain fecal material, developed a charger that simultaneously sanitizes a cellphone. Dan Barnes told the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas, billed as more than an ...
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Users from Northwestern University, working with the Center for Nanoscale Materials EMMD Group at Argonne, have demonstrated the first growth of graphene on a silver substrate. Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the ...
After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
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A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge. The research, reported in Nature ...
On Thursday, the CME Group's corn, soybean and wheat markets are expected to trade mixed. The early calls for the commodities on Thursday, January 9, 2013, are mixed. Corn is seen opening 1-2 cents lower, soybeans 4-6 cents higher, and ...
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Currently, the most efficient methods we have for making fuel – principally, hydrogen – from sunlight and water involve rare and expensive metal catalysts, such as platinum. Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build ...
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Europe has become an area where special IC´s and electronic applications are being developed and produced, such as Sensors, MEMS, vision applications, specific IC’s, etcetera, in particular for semiconductor, automotive and ...
Tags: special IC´s, electronic applications, TOWA Europe GmbH