Vishay Precision Group has announced that its VPG Transducers brand has introduced two weight indicators featuring large six-digit LED and LCD displays. Combining weighing and counting modes with an array of advanced features and communication interfaces, the Intuition 20i and Intuition 22i provide versatile solutions for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications.

Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group (VPG) brand, has announced that it has expanded its product line of Transducer Class full-bridge strain gages based on Advanced Sensors technology. Offering several advantages over bonding multiple, individual strain gages, the devices are now available with smaller, higher resistance patterns to serve a variety of bending and torque/shear applications.

VPG has introduced a series of ultra-high-precision Z1 Foil Technology wraparound surface-mount chip resistors designed for high-temperature applications to +225°C. Featuring gold-plated terminals for design flexibility, the FRSG series devices offer low TCR of ±2.5 ppm/°C maximum from -55 to +200°C (+25 °C ref.), tight tolerances to ±0.01% and load-life stability to ±0.1% after 2,000 hours of working power at...

A pocket-sized, USB-powered data acquisition device for use with resistive strain gauges has been introduced by Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group brand. Optimised for classroom environments or convenient, low-cost gauge installation verification, the easy-to-use StudentDAQ doesn't require calibration and it features built-in support for a single channel of full-bridge, half-bridge and 120Ω quarter-bridge inputs, including all nec...

To meet the growing demand for precise and reliable strain gages and accessories operating in harsh environments, Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group (VPG) brand, has announced that it has launched a new strain gage bundle designed for high-temperature applications above 400°C. 

VPG Foil Resistors announced that its Vishay Foil Resistors (VFR) brand's 303143 series of ultra-high-precision through-hole Z-Foil resistors is now available with an 'R' screening option in compliance with NASA's S-311-P-813 specification for leaded radial resistors. Offering a faster lead time to meet the market's growing need for S-311-P-813-screened resistors in space system electronic circuits, devices ordered with the 'R' option are submitt...

Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group brand, have announced that it is bringing back its Super Stock programme, providing design engineers with quick access to the right stress analysis gauge for their testing requirements. The Super Stock programme includes a comprehensive list of in-demand patterns, guaranteed to be in stock for Micro-Measurements' worldwide network of customers, with off-the-shelf delivery.

Three small-scale strain gauges designed to meet the growing demand for precise, stable, and reliable stress analysis of PCBs, even in harsh environments, have been introduced by Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group. The C2A-06-G1350-120 rectangular rosette gauge and C2A-06-015LW-120 uniaxial linear gauge are designed to detect PCB surface strains at critical locations in consumer electronics.

To address the growing demand for the sensors needed to manufacture precision transducers, Micro-Measurements has released a series of products built using its Advanced Sensors strain gauge technology. The strain gauges offer a tighter resistance tolerance, improved gauge-to-gauge repeatability and better stability than standard strain gauges, while their advanced fabrication process helps to significantly reduce lead times.

Current sensing resistors, designed to improve LED brightness and efficiency in portable battery-powered applications, have been introduced by Vishay Precision Group. The LED1625 and LED221, which expand the company’s Vishay Foil Resistors, provide low TCR of 0.05ppm/°C nominal (0 to +60°C) and 0.2ppm/°C nominal (-55 to +125°C,+25°C ref.), load-life stability of ±0.005% and tight tolerances to ±0.01%.

Vishay Precision Group has announced its Micro-Measurements brand's U.K. training session schedule for 2015. Held at the company's Micro-Measurements facility in Basingstoke, Hampshire, these practical courses are designed to train customers in the proper use of strain measurement techniques.

Designed for connection to the secondary-side of current sensing transformers, the Bulk Metal Foil Burden through-hole resistor has been released by Vishay Precision Group. Expanding the Vishay Foil Resistors product line, the device offers low TCR down to ±0.2ppm/°C from -55 to +125°C, 25°C ref., and load-life stability of ±0.005% after 2,000 hours at 0.1W at 70°C.

Vishay Precision Group has introduced the new Flex Series of Bulk Metal Foil commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) resistors featuring flexible terminations. The devices are designed to minimise transfer of PCB stresses caused by differential thermal coefficients of expansion (TCE), providing load-life stability of ±0.005% (50 ppm) after 2,000 hours at 70°C and low TCR of ±0.05 ppm/°C nominal (0°C to + 60°C) and ±0....

A resistor with built-in climate control has been introduced by Vishay Foil Resistors (VFR). The bulk metal foil RTD simulator resistor is designed to simulate PT-100 and PT-1000 RTD outputs for the calibration of RTD instruments. The resistor, the company claim, provides a faster, easier and less expensive alternative to decade boxes and electronic simulators for the calibration of a range of applications including transmitte...

Offering a TCR of ±2 ppm/°C, which the manufacturer claims is the industry's lowest for high-power current shunts, Vishay Precision Group has introduced the first devices in the S series of precision foil current sense resistors. The SHR, SHS, SNR and SPR resistors offer a range of power ratings from 1.5 in free air to 80W when mounted on a heatsink.

VPG's Vishay Foil Resistors (VFR) brand has released a video demonstrating the advantages of using Bulk Metal Foil resistors for applications operating in extreme temperatures. The video compares the TCR performance and resistance stability of Bulk Metal Foil with thick film and thin film technologies when exposed to the temperature conditions on Mars.

A series of military-qualified, ultra-high-precision Z1-Foil wrap-around chip resistors has been launched by Vishay Precision Group. Based on VFR's next-generation Z1-Foil technology, the devices have been tested per EEE-INST-002 (Tables 2A and 3A, Film/Foil, Level 1) and MIL-PRF-55342.

At the Sensor & Test in June VPG Micro-Measurments and Transducers will be showing the next generation strain gauges and the System 8000 StrainSmart data acquisition system. The strain gauges are produced on an advanced manufacturing technology line at its Micro-Measurements Advanced Sensors facility. This facility has the latest processing equipment, which is now providing replacement gages for many of M-M's existing transducer class product...

Kip Reiner, Senior Field Design Engineer for the VFR brand, and Richard Zuratt, Senior R&D Engineer, will present a demonstration of the respective capabilities of different precision resistor types at the CARTS International 2014 conference. The conference is being held from March 31 to April 3 at The Biltmore in Santa Clara, Calif.

Designed to directly replace wirewound and metal film devices, the VTA57Z signals an expansion of Vishay Precision Group's VTAZ series of Z-foil resistors. The Bulk Metal, Z-Foil, ultra-high-precision tubular axial-lead resistors offers the device in the RBR57 MIL size.