Electromechanical
Increasing Reliability with Sealed Switches
While switch manufacturers play a large role in a device's reliability, the environmental conditions...
Fundamentals of Building a Test System
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major...
Strategic Approaches to Alleviate Excess and Obsolete Inventory
Many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electronic manufacture service (EMS) providers try to...
Peaks and Valleys
Some power supplies specify a peak load capability to support loads that are higher than the nominal...
The Risk Assessment Process
When undertaking machine safety activities, it is always important to have a clearly structured process...
Functional Safety for Machine Controls
When implementing technical protective measures (also referred to as “safeguards”) from the hierarchy...
Powering Communications in Harsh Environments
The use of power supplies in harsh, remote environments brings with it many fundamental design issues...
Selecting Safety Standards for Machine Safeguarding Requirements
“Safety standards” are requirements designed to ensure the safety of people around products, activities,...
Putting the data into power supply data sheets
Why is it that seemingly similar power supplies have significantly different performance and reliability...
Data-Logging Memory Challenges in the 21st Century
As factory automation systems become more intelligent they will move data acquisition, storage and processing...
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