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Although conditions for most of America's manufacturing industries are grim, with segments such as automotive seeing more than a 30% drop in shipments over the past year, there is still a little bit of good news out there: shipments and new orders aren't dropping as fast as they were in the first...more >>

When it comes to identifying industry segments that are expected to grow, medical gets listed (as far as I can tell) every time. The recent flurry of interest in wireless medical devices is just part of this ongoing trend.

In late 2006, NASA acquired a Predator B unmanned aerial system for civilian earth science and to test out new aeronautical technologies. And since then, Ikhana has been hard at work collecting atmospheric data and providing real-time fire imaging and mapping. Its current task is to help evaluate a...more >>

This is the fifth essay in a series expanding on an article I wrote for Sensors titled A Twelve-Step Sensor Selection Checklist. This month, I'll look at the phase of the sensor selection process in which you review your error analysis. In this step, you decide if a particular sensor meets your...more >>

Award Winners Offer Cutting-Edge New Products

The new version of the application extends the ability of the supervisory monitoring and control software.

NEWTON, Mass., December 7, 2006 – Sensors, the premier publication dedicated to sensors and sensor-related technologies, will continue to build and expand its web-based editorial platform in the coming year and will cease publication of its print magazine in response to the sensor community’s...more >>

Trying to understand the evolution of industrial automation is a chicken-or-egg conundrum. Do needs and demands shape the technology, or does technology shape the demands? Whatever the answer, change is undeniable-and fascinating. The breadth and complexity of this dynamism is too great to capture...more >>

Sensors to Focus on Web-Based Initiatives

When it comes to achieving measurement quality, one measurement is never enough. Every measurement has an accompanying error, and that immediately takes you into the world of statistics. To successfully navigate the measurement process, you have to answer such questions as: How many measurements...more >>