VEE Pro 8.0 and VEE Express 8.0 help engineers analyze measurement data with task-oriented building blocks, enabling them to focus on connecting instruments, measuring their device, analyzing the data and presenting their results. Other key benefits and features of these updates to VEE are provided by three key capabilities:
Watch Window offers powerful and flexible debugging […]

iHawk(TM) VME is a commercial platform for mission-critical simulation, data acquisition, industrial and aerospace applications. Each iHawk includes the RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. Compatible with the popular Red Hat(R) Linux distribution, RedHawk features high I/O throughput, fast response to external events and optimized interprocess communication. RedHawk is the ideal Linux environment for complex real-time […]

I don’t know that there’s much UL certification in the auto industry, but this was an interesting announcement…..Dan
UL’s certification customers in North America will have free online access to all UL safety Standards beginning immediately. The entire library of UL’s Standards and Outlines of Investigations will be available through a dedicated Web site.
At the new […]

The Model 356B41 is a new triaxial ICP® accelerometer that installs between rider and vehicle seat, for ride comfort studies and human vibration exposure investigations. It contains a precision, low profile, triaxial ICP® accelerometer, which is mounted to a metal plate and screwed into a molded rubber pad. The sensor may easily be removed from […]

I just received an “issue” of the SAE’s new Testing & Simulation e-mail newsletter. It has links to eleven stories, including:

MRI techniques for quality control at Delphi,
rollover testing at GM, and
simulating interior and exterior lighting.

To subscribe, go to the SAE website.

Frost & Sullivan recently published a report, “World Mechanical Test Equipment Market” that provides a comprehensive view of the mechanical testing industry including:

revenue forecasts for various mechanical testing techniques,
latest technological developments, and
key market trends.

The report examines

universal testing machines,
servohydraulic testing machines,
hardness test equipment, and
impact test equipment.

The report notes that fast-paced industrial growth in Asia Pacific […]

National Instruments recently released a new version of DIAdem, version 10.1, the interactive software for inspecting, analyzing and reporting test data. These include enhancements to the DIAdem DataFinder, a data mining feature that lets engineers perform Internet-like searches across their data files, regardless of format. Engineers can perform advanced searches based on key descriptive information […]

General Motors opened a state-of-the-art rollover crash test facility in December 2005, becoming the first North American automaker to integrate in-house testing for the infrequent but potentially deadly rollover crashes that claim 10,000 lives a year. Rollovers account for just 2 percent of all crashes but claim 40 percent of the fatalities annually on American […]

The M4841 dynamic test handler supports BGA, CSP, and QFP packages and can test up 16 devices simultaneously with a throughput of 18,500 devices per hour. The handler can cool devices to -40°C or heat them to 125°C.
The 4841 uses Advantest’s Soft Touch Handling mechanism and interior motion controls to provide a high-accuracy test environment. […]

Although designed for use in end products, this absorber could also be used in test equipment…..Dan
The new 3M EMI absorber AB-5000 series is designed for EMI attenuation applications requiring electromagnetic-absorbing properties, such as in mobile phones (SAR reduction), computers, notebooks, digital cameras, LCD/PDP TVs and PCBs for communications. This absorber suppresses radiated noise from emitting […]