By Dan Romanchik, on February 29th, 2008%
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 has . . . → Read More: SAE Offers Test Seminars
By Dan Romanchik, on February 29th, 2008%
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 shows . . . → Read More: Volvo: Tests With Tired Drivers Increase Traffic Safety
By Dan Romanchik, on February 28th, 2008%
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:
=COUNTIF(B2:B100,”<0″)
To . . . → Read More: Excel Corner: Conditional Counting – COUNTIF
By Dan Romanchik, on February 26th, 2008%
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 turned . . . → Read More: New Scopes Tout Biggest Display, Fastest Waveform Update Rate
By Dan Romanchik, on February 25th, 2008%
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 inputs . . . → Read More: New Catalog Lists Industrial Automation and Communication Products