The National Physical Laboratory’s (NPL's) inspection facility in Huddersfield is expanding the range of services on offer to local manufacturing businesses, following a hugely successful first year.
Understanding eddy current effects is critical to improving the performance of many emergent electrical equipment applications, including high efficiency electric motors, generators and transformers.
Many components and assemblies have internal features that are difficult to inspect non-destructively, as conventional metrology requires them to be sectioned. Belgian researchers are hoping to overcome these difficulties by using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) to measure the interiors of such components in 3D.
The cloud is changing the information technology (IT) landscape. So, what is it that makes it so compelling and how will it impact the test and measurement industry? We delve into National Instruments' latest Automated Test Outlook 2014 report to find out.
Ultra Boost, a three year project partially funded by the Technology Strategy Board, is aiming to develop a supercharged petrol engine with the same power output and only 35 percent of the exhaust emissions of a current five-litre V8 engine that is only half the size.