RS Components has appointed Frank Lee as regional vice president, Asia Pacific, who will lead and advance the strategic growth initiatives for RS in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Lee will be responsible for defining and implementing the strategic direction and growth strategy across Asia Pacific. He will lead the region to drive business … Continue reading RS Components appoints new regional VP →

Mouser Electronics, along with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, has released a new video in the Shaping Smarter Cities series, part of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together program. In the newest video, Imahara travels to Los Angeles to meet with innovators and engineers from DAQRI and to learn about the new possibilities that augmented reality can bring … Continue reading Shaping Smarter Cities →

Vicor has extended the Cool-Power 48V ZVS 20A Buck Regulator portfolio by releasing the PI3523-00-LGIZ (PI3523). The PI352x family offers 20A solutions complementing the previously released 10A 48V PI354x family, enabling scalable power options for 48V direct to point-of-load (PoL) applications.  The PI3523 is a 48V, 3.3V nominal Buck Regulator capable of supplying up to … Continue reading Vicor extends 48V Cool-Power ZVS buck regulators family →

Fujitsu Components Europe is celebrating Fujitsu’s 100 years of manufacturing relays. The Takamisawa Electric Company was established in 1917 to design and produce relays for the telecommunication industry.  After being acquired by the Fujitsu Corporation in 1995, the name changed to Fujitsu Components in 2001 to reflect the focus of the company’s product lines that … Continue reading Fujitsu celebrates 100 years of relays →

AI automation company Presagen has expanded its offering to include image-based medical diagnostics. Presagen’s AI platform to date has focused on using unique defense AI technology for automating human behavior. The AI platform can assist businesses automate manual and mundane tasks to increase productivity and enable staff to focus on core business tasks. Over the … Continue reading Presagen launches AI platform for image-based medical diagnostics →

Sunswift Violet, a four-seat sedan designed and built by engineering students at UNSW, left Sydney today on a 4,300 km drive to Darwin, where it will compete in the Bridgestone World Challenge. It is the sixth-generation solar car created by the UNSW Solar Racing Team Sunswift, built for practicality, speed and endurance, combining cutting-edge technology … Continue reading Sunswift solar car departs for world race →

Micro-Measurement has introduced a range of miniature, lightweight hybrid sensors, offering cost-effective force, displacement, pressure, strain and acceleration measurements within high-volume OEM and test applications. Design of the range incorporates the brand’s own precision-foil strain gauges, adhesively bonded to flat substrates, constructed of either metal, composite, or polymer. Hybrid sensors are manufactured using high-volume production … Continue reading Hybrid sensors for force and pressure measurements →

Stackpole’s RV Series of radial leaded metal oxide varistors come in a range of sizes and working voltages. The RV Series is UL1449 certified and is available in sizes from 5mm up to 20mm with peak current ratings up to 18,000 amps and energy handling up to 792J. The RV Series offers over voltage protection … Continue reading RV series of radial leaded MOVs →

Olympus’ new L Series Vanta handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyser is designed for customers that need ruggedness, power, speed and ease of use. Joining the range of M Series and C Series analysers, the L Series is designed for applications such as positive material identification (PMI), quality assurance (QA), metal fabrication, scrap metal and car catalyst … Continue reading Analyser for rugged conditions →

A collective of more than 50 business, research and non-government leaders have begun work on the second Australian National Outlook to explore nationally significant issues, risks and opportunities – and how as a country, Australia might respond. Brought together by CSIRO and NAB, project participants will explore issues affecting Australia’s long-term future growth and prosperity … Continue reading Shaping Australia’s future →

Basis Technologies, an innovator in DevOps for SAP, has announced the expansion of its DevOps Toolset with Testimony, a solution that offers a new approach to functional regression testing of SAP environments. Testimony introduces a transformative new testing paradigm, Robotic Test Automation (RTA). RTA reduces the risk of change and protects critical business processes from … Continue reading New approach eliminates cost from automated and manual testing →

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global organisation transforming business and society by accelerating the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has announced the Smart Factory Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance Testbed. The testbed is led by two companies, Plethora IIoT, a company, designing and developing solutions for Industry 4.0, and Xilinx, provider of all programmable … Continue reading IIC launches smart factory machine learning testbed →

Researchers at the University of Sydney have slowed digital information carried as light waves by transferring the data into sound waves in an integrated circuit, or microchip. It is the first time this has been achieved. Transferring information from the optical to acoustic domain and back again inside a chip is critical for the development … Continue reading Storing lightning inside thunder →

With its flexible design, the dual function FS10i flow switch/monitor from Fluid Components International (FCI) delivers two functions in a single instrument, providing process and plant engineers a flow monitor at the price of a flow switch. The device is useful in gas flow safety-related applications because it is designed to provide a dependable high- … Continue reading Flow switch/monitor performs double duty →

Dubai Electricty and Water Authority (DEWA) has awarded the contract to the 700MW AED14.2 billion fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park to a Saudi Arabian and Chinese consortium. This is the largest single-site Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in the world, based on the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model. The … Continue reading DEWA awards AED14.2 billion CSP project →

Emerson is launching the DeltaV PK controller, which provides scalable automation control to all process industries, particularly parts of the life sciences, oil and gas, petrochemical, and discrete manufacturing industries that have relied on complex, non-integrated programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with limited operational capabilities. The fit-for-purpose DeltaV PK Controller is the process industry’s first controller … Continue reading Controller for automation versatility and IIoT-enabled operations →

Sungrow, an inverter solution supplier for renewables, has shown off its UL 1741-SA certified 1500V string and central PV inverters as well as C&I and utility energy storage system (ESS) at the Solar Power International 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. Both of the inverters are said to have the ability to adapt to a … Continue reading PV inverters for harsh environments →

The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck, Austria has chosen a Spectrum Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) to generate a wide variety of signals for their research. Because of the variety of experiments that it would be used for, it was important to have an AWG that is easy to program … Continue reading Arbitrary waveform generator precise enough for quantum research →

Bioenergy Australia has recently appointed a new Chief Executive Officer. Shahana McKenzie joins Bioenergy Australia from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), where she successfully led a restructure to increase the relevance and impact of the landscape architecture industry. McKenzie’s experience is as a reformist CEO and her appointment will see the economic, environmental and … Continue reading New CEO for Bioenergy Australia →