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New Products : Measuring in 3-D
Presenting LensShape the 3-D measuring system at Hannover Messe
Jena, Germany -- Today, complex optical free-form geometries are used primarily in car headlamps and in optics for cameras and digital projectors. These optical components are expensive to manufacture and to test. At Hannover-Messe on April 21 through 25 (Hall 2, Stand D22), scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena will be presenting the 3-D measuring system LensShape, which renders the manufacturing process faster and more cost-effective.
“The lenses used in many optical components today – for instance in car headlamps, or in digital projectors or cameras – are no longer spherical, but have free-form geometries,” says Dr. Gunther Notni of the IOF.
“Free-form geometries are not rotationally symmetrical, but may be surfaces of any shape. This makes them expensive to manufacture, and the conventional methods used so far have not allowed the lenses and mirrors to be tested thoroughly enough. Until now, it has taken over an hour to measure the aspherical lenses using high-precision coordinate measuring devices.”
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 14, 2008 (2404 Reads)
Applications : VACUSAFE comfort selected for inclusion with molecular diagnostic kits
Madrid, Spain -- GENOMICA S.A.U has invested in a first batch of 50 VACUSAFE comfort units from INTEGRA Biosciences AG for inclusion as a productive and safe sample preparation tool for their innovative, high-throughput molecular diagnostic kits.GENOMICA S.A.U is a leading developer of high-throughput molecular diagnostics tests for a range of genomic applications. Using their proprietary CLART® clinical arrays technology, the company has successfully launched in-vitro diagnostic tests for the genotyping of HPV (human papilloma virus), the simultaneous detection of 17 types and subtypes of respiratory viruses and the detection of SNPs that are predisposed to bone metabolic alterations.
After an exhaustive evaluation process - GENOMICA elected to implement VACUSAFE comfort as the personal laboratory vacuum system included with CLART® diagnostic test kits to enable customers to rapidly and safely aspirate samples, reagents and buffers from the test tubes with incorporated DNA arrays.
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Posted by wbprimetek on Sunday, April 13, 2008 (1591 Reads)
New Products : NEW Online Condition Monitoring System
Strängnäs, Sweden -- SPM Instrument, Sweden has announced the launch of its new high-performance online system for condition monitoring of critical industrial equipment. The system, named Intellinova®, complements the Nova family of products, where the Condmaster® Nova software and portable Leonova™ instruments have already reached global success.
A multifunctional backbone of any condition monitoring program, Intellinova is a powerful system for overall asset maintenance and control.
This successor to the world renowned CMS system is a carefully designed and dependable workhorse, developed to fit the needs of a wide range of machinery applications. The online system implements farsighted solutions to ensure a durable and scalable system at an affordable price.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 13, 2008 (1829 Reads)
New Products : NEW hand-held XRF analyzer!
Enables fast & accurate analysis of heavy elements like Pb, even when samples contains light elements like Al & Si
Abingdon, UK -- Oxford Instruments announces the launch of a robust X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer – the X MET5000, for highly accurate and reliable elemental analysis. The X MET5000 represents the 4th generation of Oxford Instruments’ world-renowned X-ray tube based hand-held analyzers.
Engineered for high performance and reliability, this brand new analyzer combines Oxford Instruments’ patented PentaFET® detector technology offering guaranteed fast analysis and lower detection limits for all elements of interest.
Purpose-built for the most demanding quality control applications: scrap metal recycling, analysis of metals for PMI, screening for lead in toys and consumer products for RoHS compliance testing.
The X-MET5000 also serves the needs of the mining community for ore exploration, as well as the measurement of heavy metals in soils for environmental monitoring.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 12, 2008 (1757 Reads)
New Products : Miniature Signal Conditioning IC
Single Chip IC Solution Enhances Performance of Sensors Used for Proximity or Object Detection
SHANGHAI,-China -- Avago Technologies has announced a new miniature single-chip signal conditioning IC that enhances the performance and robustness of optical sensors used for proximity or object detection in consumer and industrial applications. When used with optical proximity sensors, Avago’s APDS-9700 signal conditioning IC provides accurate and robust detection of objects in ambient light and sunlight conditions, and will allow design engineers to package more functionality into those applications where printed circuit board space is limited.
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Posted by GRPeacock on Friday, April 11, 2008 (3457 Reads)
Devices : Resolution of a microscope & 3D capabilities of a CT scanner
{3D rending of wood from a 290nm voxel scan - Image Credit: Micro Photonics Inc.}
Irvine, CA & Allentown, PA USA -- The micro-CT systems from Skyscan allows one to non destructively image 1.5 micron slices from your samples. Skyscan has opened up the internal features of test samples without actually having to open them up. The 2011 X-ray nanotomograph from Skyscan provides non-destructive 3D microscopy of the internal structures of small objects with spatial resolution down to ~400 nanometers.
It is now possible to achieve the spatial resolution of a synchrotron in the convenience of your own laboratory.
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Posted by GRPeacock on Thursday, April 10, 2008 (1575 Reads)
DAQ & DAS : Measurement Computing's NEW DASYLab 10
The release of DASYLab 10 is Measurement Computing's latest version of their graphical programming environment for test and measurement 
Norton, MA, USA -- Measurement Computing Corporation's DASYLab 10 is a graphical programming environment for test and measurement. With intuitive worksheets, icons (or modules), and wire functions, complete applications are only a few mouse clicks away.DASYLab 10 is compatible with Microsoft’s Vista® operating system, and optimized for operation on multi-processor PCs.
New features and improvements include:
Diagram Module—DASYLab 10 comes with a new graphical display module named Diagram, which provides outstanding interactive versatility of time domain data.
The Diagram module may be configured as an enhanced Y/t chart, X/Y chart, or Data Chart Recorder. It supports multiple y-axes and allows the user to freely assign signals to each y-axis.
For easy comparison of the time domain waveforms, users can define the offset used to display a signal, and can dynamically move a signal around within the graphical display to compare one signal with another.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 (2039 Reads)
Applications : Pharma & Contract Pharma ROI for Increased RMI
Webinar: Return on Investments for Increased levels of Raw Material InspectionWednesday, April 9, 2008 - 11:00AM EDT (GMT – 04:00, New York)
Wilmington MA, USA -- In Session Number: 552 543 471, Ahura Scientific invites you to join this free upcoming live webinar event. The hour-long session will focus on handheld Raman for the incoming raw materials inspection process. With mounting pressure for leaner manufacturing operations, Ahura Scientific offers highly-accurate, easy-to-implement, cost-effective alternatives to traditional testing practices.
Todd Blonshine, Product Specialist at Ahura Scientific, will conduct a 45 minute presentation followed by a 15 minute Q & A session. Some highlights include:
* Regulatory Overview
* Understanding Materials ID Testing Costs
* Pressures to Change ID Testing
* Ways to Improve ID Testing
* Spectroscopy vs. Handheld Spectroscopy
* Case Study
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (1446 Reads)
New Products : Non-Telecentric Lenses For Moving Part Inspection
Cambridge, UK -- Designed to provide a real high performance alternative to CCTV lenses, Moritex has announced new additions to its ML-N Macro Lens range.The new compact, high performance ML-N series lenses combine low cost, choice of magnification (0.1x - 1.0x) and long working distance (70 - 350mm) to enhance moving part inspection applications using cameras with up to ½-inch sensors.
Based upon many years experience of producing Machine Micro Lenses, Moritex developed a state-of-the-art non-telecentric optical system for the ML-N series that provides high resolution and low TV distortion.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 07, 2008 (1304 Reads)
Devices : OptoTherm Infrared camera upgrade
OptoTherm has upgraded the thermal imaging camera used with their EL thermal imaging system
Sewickley PA, USA --The latest version of the EL thermal imaging system includes a new thermal imaging camera utilizing a 320x240 uncooled detector array with <0.05˚C sensitivity and 16 bit digital Camera Link interface. The camera captures and displays images at a rate of 30 frames/second and provides a pixel resolution of down to 70 microns.
The EL system is used to quickly locate shorts, stressed components, and other defects. It can also analyze the thermal behavior of individual components.
Model Board Comparison enables users to locate defects by comparing the thermal behavior of defective boards to a known good board model.
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Posted by optotherm on Sunday, April 06, 2008 (1390 Reads)
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