| January 29, 2013 | Volume 09 Issue 04 |
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 | New Line of Phillips Pan Machine Screws
Micro Plastics has added a new line to their inventory of 250 million parts! The Phillips Pan Machine Screws are molded in tough, resilient, and corrosion-resistant Nylon 6/6 material. Thread sizes included are: 4-40, 6-32, 8-32, 10-32, 1/4-20 and 1/4-28. Available in 25 standard lengths ranging from 3/32 in. up to 3 in., Micro Plastics also offers an extensive line of machine screws, including head styles such as Binder, Binder Combination, Fillister, Hex, Pan, Round, Socket, Flat, Oval, and Thumb Screws, as well as Studs, Grubs, and Flat Head Wing Screws.
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World's first hybrid digital/analog power-management device
If you are an analog design engineer trying to keep up with increasing power requirements, this could well be your solution. Microchip Technology's MCP19111 provides analog design engineers with a stop-gap so that they do not have to go to full digital. This unit, which operates across a wide voltage range of 4.5 V to 32 V, fills an industry need for hybrid control by integrating an analog-based PWM controller with a fully functional Flash-based microcontroller. All power conversion is done in the analog space, but users get the flexibility of using a digital interface. An eval board (part #ADM00397) is available.
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 | Multi-wavelength infrared temp sensors
Williamson Corporation's Pro 100 and Pro 200 Series multi-wavelength infrared temperature sensors are ideal for a multitude of industrial applications where devices such as thermocouples and RTDs would be inaccurate, too slow, or difficult to use. The sensors measure the amount of infrared energy emitted by an object's surface, then convert this signal into a temperature value between 200 deg and 4,500 deg F (between 95 deg and 2,500 deg C). Accuracy is within 2 deg C or 0.25 percent of the reading (whichever is greater). Great for challenging conditions, such as dirty windows, smoke, steam, plasma coatings, dust, water spray, partially obstructed fields of view, or small or wandering targets.
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 | New Fit4Filter smartphone app simplifies ordering Bosch Rexroth hydraulic filters
The Fit4Filter smartphone app allows customers to cross reference and replace their existing hydraulic filter elements with the corresponding Rexroth filters. The app is available for both Apple and Android devices and is an outstanding tool for upgrading filter elements on hydraulic power units in virtually any application: plastic injection molding machines, offshore drilling equipment, machine tools, metal stamping machines, steel making equipment, and more. Fit4Filter includes cross references to thousands of filter elements, and a unique "sync-on-demand" feature allows users to update the app with new filter elements and other data with just a few finger taps.
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 | RC8 industrial robot controller is world's smallest in its class
The new DENSO RC8 controller is 60 percent smaller and 45 percent lighter than the company's previous model and is the world's most compact industrial robot controller in the 3-kW output class. It has a footprint of only 12 x 18 in. and a height of only 3.75 in., saving valuable factory floor space and facilitating integration. This powerful, high-speed controller can communicate with over 100 different types of devices using DENSO's ORiN open-resource interface networking system. Optional accessories include a teaching pendant with a 7.5-in. color touchscreen, a mini pendant with a 128 x 64 pixel LCD display, up to two additional axes, and conveyor tracking. DENSO's Wincaps III 3D simulation software allows offline programming and remote monitoring of robot operation.
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| | Most popular last issue | Breakthrough: Electricity on a fiber thread
Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force, and Israel's Technion Institute recently unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire.
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| | Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action | How thin can a mobile display get?
Not much thinner than the 1-mm-thick units shown off by Japan Display at a trade show late last year. See the future of lightweight communication, where your primary mobile device is just bigger than a credit card.
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The next step in industrial robotics?
Meet Baxter, a revolutionary new category of Robot from Rethink Robotics that is capable of applying common-sense behavior to manufacturing environments. Baxter's not the fastest robot in the bunch (yet), but he's affordably priced, versatile, and safe enough to work shoulder to shoulder with people.
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