AST20HA Pressure Sensor - Industrial ASIC - Stainless Steel Media Isolated
Mt. Olive NJ, USA -- /newswire/ - - American Sensor Technologies, Inc. (AST) unveils the new digitally compensated, CE approved, AST20HA high accuracy pressure transducer to complement its existing OEM and Hazardous Area pressure sensing products.

This model is intended for use in applications requiring high performance over a range of operating conditions at an affordable price. The AST20HA is extremely versatile and suitable for a variety of applications including, but not limited to: test stands, hydrogen filling stations, medical laboratories and military/aerospace vehicles and equipment.

The AST20HA’s ASIC design features real time thermal compensation and linearity correction, enabling it to excel in dynamic temperature environments where ordinary sensors fail.

Furthermore, its one piece stainless steel construction is built upon the proven performance of AST’s Krystal Bond™ Technology, bringing the AST20HA into it’s own league of high performance pressure sensing.


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Wireless and Ethernet Devices Offer Easy-to-Use, High-Performance Remote Measurements
Austin TX, USA -- National Instruments has announced 10 new Wi-Fi and Ethernet data acquisition (DAQ) devices, extending the world-trusted NI measurement hardware and software platform to wireless remote monitoring applications.

The new wireless and Ethernet DAQ devices include built-in signal conditioning and direct sensor connectivity for electrical, physical, mechanical and acoustic signals.

Engineers and scientists can combine NI Wi-Fi DAQ with the NI LabVIEW software platform to meet their wireless structural diagnostic, environmental and machine condition monitoring application needs by reducing cabling costs and increasing flexibility without compromising performance.


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Taipei, Taiwan —Synology Disk Station DS207+ scores 5 out of 5 in the categories of features, performance, value for money, and overall evaluation, receiving the Editor's Choice award from Personal Computer World Magazine, UK.

After a prudent testing on 8 popular 2-bay NAS servers on the market, the editor, Mr. Paul Monckton, gave the DS207+ the following verdict: "Stunning performance and a mind-boggling level of functionality, yet simple to use.”

"Diverse functionality, good performance, and flexibility of usage are no doubt the dominant points for decision making when users choose a NAS server," said Victor Chiang, Sales Manager of Synology UK Limited.

"We are proud to be recognized by Personal Computer World Magazine in this group test." Synology DS207+ is the only NAS server that has achieved the perfect score in the overall evaluation. Its feature set shines in the specification chart, and thanks to the flexible design of the AJAX-based Disk Station Manager 2.0, these configuration can be done very easily."

"Besides, the lab results confirm the DS207+'s absolute leading position in file reading speed and also-strong position in writing. The range of features and capabilities on offer is far in excess of any other in this round-up and, during testing, its performance was often around double that of the competition," commented Monckton.


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Second generation of embedded PC technology based on highly integrated and powerful ETX technology

Maisach /Munich, GERMANY -- It's like in a movie: A second version to be successful must feature something new and better without loosing sight of its basic characteristics.

BMC Messsysteme GmbH (bmcm) has put great emphasis on this aspect when developing the next generation ePCII as industrial PC or data logger. With the integration of an LX800 CPU in ETX standard (Embedded Technology eXtended) the processor performance of the new devices has been doubled (500MHz).

At the same time the power consumption is constantly low (~ 10W). In addition, the extremely compact design could be kept: i.e. the robust aluminum housing with 110mm in width and height and 210mm length can easily be placed in tight space.

Also new is the extended temperature range from -25°C to +85°C, an important aspect frequently disregarded by other manufacturers and often causing problems.


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Newnan GA, USA -- Yokogawa offers a wide range of flow computers/totalizers, batch controllers and thermal energy calculators.

Accepting signals from their vortex and magnetic flowmeters, the instruments are also suitable for use with other flow measurement technologies, including turbine, differential pressure, and target type flowmeters.

New products include the:

* 415 Steam and Gas Flow Computer,
* 202 Field Mounting Rate Totalizer ,
* 212 Heat Calculator and,
* 414 Batch Controller


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For power generation and large-scale steam operations
WARMINSTER, PA, USA -- New Navigator 600 Phosphate analyzer from ABB Instrumentation significantly cuts the cost of phosphate monitoring while improving ease of use.

The new process analyzer substantially reduces the amount of reagents and maintenance generally associated with phosphate analysis.

Aimed at the power generation industry and other large-scale steam raising industrial applications, the Navigator 600 for phosphate uses 10% of the reagents typically consumed by units from other manufacturers.

Remote management and automatic calibration, zero, and cleaning greatly reduce maintenance costs, too.


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Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New Industry-Leading OES and XRF Automation Software

ECUBLENS, Switzerland --- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that it has further strengthened its automation software solutions with the introduction of the Thermo Scientific ARL SMS version 6. Based on the recently released OXSAS analytical software for Thermo Scientific Optical Emission (OES) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers.

The ARL SMS version 6 features a common software platform covering both the instrument and automation solution.

The new Graphic User Interface is designed for ease-of-use and features common audit trail, system monitoring software and integrated contextual help. This novel standardized system ensures minimal training is required for users in the metals, mining and cement industries.

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Comprehensive mapping torque-current characteristics of a combined motor-generator developed for a Lotus-based hybrid car
Brighton, UK -- Specialist electromagnetic design company Elektro Magnetix (EMX) has developed and tested the motor-generator for Lotus Engineering’s EVE(Efficient, Viable, Environmental) Hybrid. It is a technology demonstrator that is showcasing many of the medium term solutions that will be used to reduce vehicle emissions.

Jonathan Bremner of EMX explains that torque mapping was essential, but could not be done in-house.

“We are a design house, so tend to sub-contact testing to other organisations. With this project we needed to plot out the full range of performance, but had only a tight time window to do all the work.”

So EMX worked with a test house to design a simple yet effective test rig. It was not long before the specialist engineers had settled on using a TorqSense torque sensor from Sensor Technology as they could design a rig around it very easily, and then it was very quick and simple to use.


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ECUBLENS, Switzerland - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. extends the capability of its ARL 4460 optical emission spectrometry (OES) metals analyzer with the addition of the new analytical software, OXSAS.

Developed for primary metals producers, the Thermo Scientific ARL 4460 allows users, from routine use to metals research, to maximize productivity and produce metallurgical products of the highest quality.

Featuring time resolved spectroscopy (TRS) and the unique patented current controlled source (CCS) technique, the ARL 4460 metals analyzer offers unmatched performance, accuracy, stability, reliability and speed of analysis. With the newly integrated Thermo Scientific OXSAS analytical software, the comprehensive solution provides increased analytical capacity and flexibility across a wide range of metals analyses.


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25 FRITSCH anniversary edition ANALYSETTE 22 COMPACT Laser Particle Sizers at 25% anniversary discount
Idar-Oberstein, Germany - Get one of 25 FRITSCH anniversary edition ANALYSETTE 22 COMPACT Laser Particle Sizers at a sensational 25% anniversary discount! Act now and save 25%!

Offer available only as long as supplies last.

For 25 years, FRITSCH has remained a step ahead in high-tech laser technology. In 1985, FRITSCH revolutionised measurement precision by introducing laser diffraction in a convergent laser beam with the patented FRITSCH measurement process.

Only the infinite adjustment of the measurement range made a previously unachieved number of measurement channels possible. It provides simple, rapid measurement.

The ANALYSETTE 22 COMPACT is the ideal FRITSCH solution for analysis of sample materials with particle sizes in the range from 0.3 to 300 cm³ and the ideal starter model for anyone wishing to switch from classical sieving and sedimentation processes to laser diffraction.


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