UK made: Pump maker buys Seaward production tester

Sunderland-based Salamander Pumps has turned to Seaward Electronic of County Durham for production line test equipment. Salamander decided to move electrical safety testing into post-assembly test while re-shaping its manufacturing operations to meet the needs of different pump types, some of which include electronics. The automated test solution it developed uses a Seaward HAL 104 programmable tester to provide ...

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Low profile zoom and wall-washing optics

Gaggione has introduced a set of low-profile optics for wall washing and zoom beam applications . Branded ‘Ultra Flat Optic’ – or UFO – there are 45mm diameter asymmetric (wall washing, top photo) or zoom versions, plus a 67mm zoom version. To keep height down, the rears have Fresnel-like structures (left) to gather light. Total ...

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Motor controller programmes through Arduino IDE

ClearCore CLCR-4-13 is an industrial IO and motion controller that can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. It handles up to four axes of step-and-direction motion  control (500kHz max step rate), and provides 13 software-configurable protected 24V-compatible I/Os. “You can download the optional ClearCore Arduino Wrapper Library. This allows you to write code within the easy-to-use ...

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Supersonic commercial aviation may return

Supersonic commercial aviation, which ended with the retirement of Concord in 2003, could be on the way back. Yesterday United  Airlines announced it was buying 15 supersonic passenger aircraft from Boom Supersonic of Colorado with an option to buy 35 more. The planes are scheduled to enter service in 2029. They can carry 65 to ...

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HMG and IBM invest £210m in AI and quantum computing centre

A £210 million investment by the government and IBM  to establish the  Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI), based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory in the Liverpool City Region, will create vacancies for 60 scientists and opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in quantum computing and AI.  Industrial applications of ...

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O-RAN test doubles 5G Site capacity

A multi-vendor O-RAN laboratory trial has shown that the approach can double the capacity of 5G sites. Vodafone  and Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the O-RAN collaborative group, ran the test using equipment from  Cohere Technologies, VMware, Capgemini Engineering and Intel. The  test used a programmable AI RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) compatible with open RAN components ...

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Paragraf shipping graphene Hall sensor for cryogenic applications

Paragraf is in volume production of  the GHS-C Graphene Hall Sensor (GHS), providing the industry’s only viable approach to measuring magnetic field strengths of 7 Tesla (T) and above, at temperature extremes below 3 Kelvin (K). The device is optimised to provide high field measurements while operating at cryogenic temperatures. It achieves this while dissipating ...

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Elektra Awards 2021 now open for entries

Electronics Weekly is pleased to announce that the 2021 Elektra Awards are now open for entries from the electronics industry. We’re slowly emerging from the shadow of the global pandemic, and electronics companies worldwide have been busy creating game-changing technologies that are helping to shape the future of the industry. These incredible achievements will be ...

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