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Glossary: Instrumentation

 
 
In engineering, the devices used to measure and collect data and/or control test and manufacturing environments, such as sensors, recorders, transmitters, displays and control systems. Generally, any device used to measure, record and/or indicate a physical phenomenon, such as a speedometer, smoke alarm or motion detector.
 
 

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Keysight Delivers Graphical Interface With Integrated Data Management, Analysis

New Smart Bench Essentials (SBE) lab bench products offer a compact and stackable design ideal for small manufacturing businesses and modern university teaching labs.

Apply by May 1 for Emerson’s 2020 ASCO Engineering Scholarships

The merit-based scholarships reward students' potential for leadership and contributions to the engineering and related professions.

Kaelus Teams Up With ECSite to Offer Enhanced Support for Test Equipment

ECSite software solution provides test automation, data management and reporting of 4G/5G telecom infrastructure applications.

RIGOL Technologies, GradientOne Announce Partnership Streamlining Test Automation

The integration of many of RIGOL's UltraVision and UltraVision II oscilloscopes with GradientOne's web-based platform allows engineers to simply and quickly set up tests, acquire/store the test data, analyze the results, and more.

Pico Technology Introduces PicoScope 9404 SXRTO Real-Time Oscilloscope

The 9404 features four 5 GHz 12-bit channels, each supported by real-time sampling to 500 MS/s per channel and up to 1 TS/s (1 ps) equivalent-time sampling. 

Editor’s Pick: Solid Edge 2019 Released

Broad expansion of portfolio includes new capabilities for electrical design and requirements management.

Crash Test Dummies Get Older, and Better

Adaptive and Markforged help Humanetics create a 3D-printed “elderly” model with use of crash test dummies.

Editor’s Pick: New Generations of LabVIEW Unveiled

LabVIEW Next Generation engineering system design software debuts, offers access for non-programmers.

VTI Offers Thermocouple/Voltage Measurement Instrument

The EX1401 precision is a 16-channel, isolated thermocouple and voltage measurement instrument that provides signal isolation and power over ethernet+.

Instrumentation for Generation Y

Generation Y’s obsession with technology will drive the next wave of benchtop instrumentation.

Astronics Completes Acquisition of PGA Electronic

PGA designs motion and lighting systems for aircraft.

Weigh Approaches to Test Instrumentation

Designers can customize how their test systems operate by modifying embedded software or by customizing the equipment itself.

LabVIEW 2012: Template for Efficiency

NI LabVIEW 2012 focuses on user productivity.

Striving for Excel-lence

How to use Excel to avoid writing code for test instruments.

Verisurf Unveils 3DGage Portable CMM

Offers four software configurations and four portable CMM configurations.

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