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Podcasts
16th July 2020
Podcast: Episode #9 – The future of automotive
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The latest podcast from Electronic Specifier Insights looks at the future of automotive from Texas Instruments’ automotive division who recently assembled to discuss the latest trends in the market and to run an eye over the future of automotive.
Cables/Connecting
16th July 2020
Weathering the COVID-19 storm with a different business model
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the global manufacturing supply chain’s reliance on countries like China. Here, Mark Bailie, European Operations Manager at PEI-Genesis, explains how the company’s different business model inadvertently helped it weather the COVID-19 storm.
Sensors
16th July 2020
Control without touching to minimise COVID-19 risks
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The threat of the COVID-19 is forcing us all to take far-reaching measures to reduce health risks as much as is possible. Many of our customers have questions about the hygiene of control panels. Are these applications hygienic enough? SCHURTER offers the possibility to control without touching.
Robotics
16th July 2020
Pick, purchase and program your first industrial robot
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Robots aren’t always given a favourable representation in pop culture. In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), homicidal supercomputer HAL 9000 demonstrates how a robot could conspire against its human colleagues. Thankfully, industrial robots aren’t quite as menacing. Here, Nigel Smith, Managing Director of TM Robotics, gives advice to manufacturers to make their first robotic investment.
Sponsored
16th July 2020
Scalable automotive camera module reference design with camera PMIC
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This reference design provides a compact and scalable camera module for automotive driver assistance (ADAS) systems and other vision applications. It combines a 2-megapixel (2 MP) imager with a 4-Gbps serializer and four-channel power management integrated circuit (PMIC). The camera module is a two-board design to illustrate the flexibility and scalability of the power and serializer components to different image sensors, depending on the application.
Design
16th July 2020
New software aims to reduce the spread of COVID-19
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Watkyn has announced the launch of ContactPath. According to the company it is the first of its kind anywhere in the world, this innovative COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing software enables health authorities and others (e.g., colleges and universities, businesses, etc.) to reduce the spread of infectious diseases, including future pandemics. In addition, the software helps identify potential outbreaks and facilitates support services to be provided for those in quarantine.
Automotive
16th July 2020
A realistic view of the self-driving future
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As recently as March 2020, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs it is 'still a long way off before 'self-driving vehicles' become available to people at any legitimate scale'.
IoT
16th July 2020
Opportunities for hyperaware smart buildings from EnOcean
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Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has joined the EnOcean Alliance as a participant member. When used together, the Aruba WiFi infrastructure and EnOcean energy harvesting wireless solutions enable customers to create hyperaware smart buildings that are cognisant of, and responsive to, their changing operating environment and occupant needs.
Design
15th July 2020
Autoclavable brushless DC motors simplify surgical tools
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Electric motors have brought many advantages to powered hand tools, however there are various approaches for design engineers to consider when selecting a motor for surgical instruments. Here, Jamie Gewirtz, R&D manager for surgical motors at Portescap, has looked at some of the design challenges and discusses considerations for the selection of the most appropriate electric motor.
Micros
16th July 2020
MPU's security enables Confidential Virtual Machines
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AMD and Google Cloud have announced the beta availability of Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) for Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, taking advantage of the processors’ advanced security features.
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