Accelerated Test Methods for Ground and Aerospace Vehicle Development Seminar
When: April 17-18, 2008
Where: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Instructor: Alexander (Alex) J. Porter
Engineers and managers involved with product development are constantly challenged to reduce time to market, minimize warranty costs, and increase product quality. With less and less time for testing, the need for effective accelerated test procedures […]

On February 28, the Swedish government approved a request for special permission to drive on public roadways with fatigued drivers. This decision means that Volvo Trucks’ work with a safety system that alerts tired drivers can enter the final phase. Fatigue and inattentiveness, as well as alcohol, are the most common causes of traffic accidents.
Research […]

This is from the 2/28/2008 issue of the Monitor, a publication of Windmill Software.
Excel Corner: Conditional Counting - COUNTIF
Excel’s COUNTIF function is often useful when analysing your data. Here are a couple of examples. They both are being applied to a column of data in cells B2 to B100.
To count the number of negative readings: […]

Agilent Technologies has just introduced the next-generation InfiniiVision 7000 Series of oscilloscopes.
The series offers bandwidths up to 1 GHz and a deep memory waveform update rate of up to 100,000 waveforms per second. According to Agilent, this eliminates two common errors that can cause engineers to miss critical information: unresponsive controls with deep memory […]

New industrial Ethernet Managed Switches are just one of many new products featured in the latest catalog from B&B Electronics. Designed for industry, these fully managed Ethernet switches have critical enhancements for factory floor operations - redundant ring topology for recovery in less than 300 ms, alarm outputs for system event notification, and dual power […]

The Q-Sun Xe-3 Xenon Test Chamber from Q-Lab Corporation is designed to help manufacturers meet the new SAE J2527 (automotive exterior materials) and J2412 (automotive interior materials) standards. (SAE recently cancelled the hardware-based J1960 and J1885 standards, replacing them with performance-based SAE J2527 and J2412 standards.)
The Xe-3 is a full-sized, free-standing tester that is equipped […]

India’s Business Standard reports that Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has selected Bangalore to be its worldwide testing center. The Bangalore lab has been operating for ten years and does safety testing for approximately 1,200 Indian companies, including some in the automotive industry.
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SAE International is seeking experts to review standards that deal with inflatable restraints. If you’re interested, please contact SAE Standards Specialist Nikki Ameredes at nameredes@sae.org. The standards include several test standards:

J1630, Driver or Passenger Airbag Module Deployment Test Procedure. This SAE Recommended Practice describes a method to be used for the static […]

AutoSpeed, an Australian website, is running an article on how to measure drag and lift without a wind tunnel. The article notes:
At higher speeds, the power developed by the engine is used almost entirely to overcome aerodynamic drag. If engine power is then measured in different aerodynamic configurations, changes to drag can be seen.
An […]

National Instruments LabVIEW 8.5 Control Design and Simulation Module, an extension of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform, now has design features such as analytical proportional integral derivative (PID) for improving system closed-loop stability and model predictive control to multivariable systems. The LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module also offers expanded support of LabVIEW MathScript […]