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Safety relay combines reliability and flexibility

The SR103AM safety relay can accept single or dual normally-closed mechanical inputs or dual solid-state inputs from a safety light curtain

High-pressure tube fittings

Innovative push-fit high-pressure tube fitting offers considerable benefits over traditional welded or cone-and-thread fittings

Developer kit speeds set-up and testing

Performance Motion Devices is launching the Ion Developer's Kit for the rapid creation of motion control systems based on its Ion digital drive

Engineers trial voice and gesture recognition

Development leads to voice and gesture recognition system that can be used when operators cannot use keyboard or touchscreen on a PDA

Air/fas flow meter goes wireless

Field technicians can obtain measurements, make setting changes and read trouble-shooting codes without ever having to open the instrument

Human vibration analyser

Designed for monitoring exposure of human operators to the harmful influences of vibration of hand-tools, machinery, heavy vehicles

Magnetostrictive position sensor is 12mm high

ASM is launching the Posichron PCFP24 magnetostrictive linear position sensor with a measurement range of up to 5750 mm

Ultrasound for low conductivity applications

Ultrasonic flowmeter digital signal processing and uses the three-beam principle to ensure stable, reliable measuring results

Flometers with wireless remote access

ST50 and ST75 Flow Meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) are now available with an exclusive wireless communication option

Instruments suit multi-axis weighing

Vishay Intertechnology's G4 advanced process control instruments are available in four variants: DIN rail, panel, desktop, and harsh-environment

Hydrogen-powered production car

BMW's 7 series Hydrogen 7 saloon is powered by a 191kW (260HP) twelve-cylinder dual-fuel engine that accelerates it from 0-100 km/h in 9.5 seconds

Internal release ensures escape

Fortress Interlocks adds internal release module to its Amgard range of modular safety gate switches and machine safety control systems

Fanless touch-panel PCs suit HMIs

Axiomtek is launching the Got-3120T fanless touch panel computer that operates in temperatures ranging from -20C to + 55 degrees C

Enhancements in geometry access, meshing

Simmetrix says that its Simulation Modeling Suite 6.0 represents a significant advance in simulation modelling technology

Handling thick materials and tight bend radii

Coupled Hybrid Inverse Solver predicts the shift in neutral surfaces to eliminate blank size calculation inaccuracies

Low cost chipset drives movies

Agere's TrueNTRY X125 supports GSM and EDGE with CD quality music, Java engine for games and Agere's middleware platform of software

Strong second half for large TFT-LCD panels

Market is on the path to recovery with strong growth expectations in the second half for all three major applications, says iSuppli Corp

Adobe Systems unveils Adobe Acrobat 8

Adobe Systems has improved the user interface on Acrobat 8 so that many of the commonly used functions need only a single mouse click

Security of mission-critical rack cabinets

Amplicon is launching the i-Box, a compact, totally integrated and scalable online monitoring system to complement its range of rack cabinets

Power supplies include short-circuit protection

Calex Electronics' 52000 and 53000 series chassis-mount linear power supplies has output voltages ranging from 4 to 48V dc and currents up to 1A

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