Testing

Written by Markus Fabich, Strategic Marketing Manager at Olympus Europa   Advancing microscopy for electronics inspection Microscopes have formed an integral part of electronics inspection for decades, and are used along the supply chain to check that finished products or individual parts are within specifications. And as products and specifications have evolved, so have modern industrial microscopes. The latest inspection microscopes ...

Lockheed Martin and NEC have signed an agreement to extend their use of NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) for spacecraft development. With a focus on the speed and efficiency of system diagnostics, the partnership will involve using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across product lifecycles. This positively impacts design and production phases of spacecraft development, says Lockheed, ...

For those working in the important area of embedded security, please note the forthcoming webinar: “Revolutionizing Embedded Security – Solving the Threat of Cyber Attacks”. It is presented by David Maidment, director of Secure Devices Ecosystem within the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm, and among other topics he’ll be examining PSA Certified and Root of Trust. The webinar takes ...

The Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury is to get a satellite propulsion test facility, the Science Minister Amanda Solloway has announced. The new centre is intended to enable companies and academics to test space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft, said the government. It will allow new types of more sustainable ...

Keysight Technologies has announced 800G test solutions for validating electrical and optical interfaces, supporting development of next generation data centre technologies. In the context of data-hungry applications – such as video conferencing, streaming and digital entertainment, delivered via wireless comms such as 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi – 800G technology is seeking to meet a growing demand in network capacity. The ...

Designed specifically for production line testing of speakers, microphones, headphones, headsets and consumer products with speakers and microphones, the APx517B acoustic analyser can be used by manufacturers as an integrated acoustic test system, says Audio Precision. The company claims that it reduces set-up time required to calibrate a test system for a new shift or to reconfigure a system for ...

Rolls Royce has announced a three-year project – dubbed REINSTATE – to develop innovative technologies for use in servicing and maintenance of jet engines, such as robotic snakes. These “snake robots” could travel within the systems to access complex parts, says the company. Acknowledging that it sounds like something out of science fiction, or a bad Hollywood movie, the project ...

Saelig has introduced a  180-page book “Create Your Own EMC Troubleshooting Kit: Essential Tools for EMC Troubleshooting” by Ken Wyatt. This first volume in his EMC Troubleshooting Series covers the benefits of creating a personal EMC troubleshooting kit and also defines which products to include. Individual chapters name suitable Spectrum Analyzers, Near Field Probes, Current Probes, Antennas, Oscilloscopes, Harmonic Comb Generators, ...

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for PCB testing, programming or calibration. “For high volume products, there are conventional ways of arranging tests but these are often too expensive and too slow for the start-up community or low volume manufacturers to benefit from,” according to the company. “We’ve developed the Ignys series of production ...

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