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Battling the Growth of Tin Whiskers

February 1, 2007
Tin whiskers are small and hard to detect and inspect. Typically no bigger than 1 to 5 microns in diameter and as much as several millimeters in length, they are small, but powerful; capable of turning a $250 million communication satellite into an orbiting paperweight and short circuiting pacemakers, radar systems, fuses, relays, GPS receivers and even disabling a nuclear power plant.
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Comet Introduces Line of X-Ray Modules

February 1, 2007
FLAMATT, SWITZERLAND-Comet, a global supplier of industrial X-ray components and modules for nondestructive testing applications, introduces a new X-Ray Source (XRS).
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Control 2007 Quality Assurance Trade Fair

February 1, 2007
SINSHEIM, GERMANY-Control, the international trade fair for quality assurance, now in its 21st year of existence, still remains true to the principles of total practice orientation and marketability.
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PANalytical Opens Sales Organization in Mexico

February 1, 2007
ALMELO, THE NETHERLANDS-PANalytical, a supplier of analytical instrumentation and software for X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), will conduct its business in Mexico directly as a PANalytical entity under the aegis of Spectris Mexico, instead of through its agent, Pona.
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Airbus Selects National Instruments DIAdem

February 1, 2007
AUSTIN, TX-Airbus selected National Instruments (NI) DIAdem data analysis and report generation software as its standard tool for processing wind-tunnel test data, including the effects of specific thermal and aerodynamic parameters on airliners across Europe.
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Bede Ships to Nippon Steel Technoresearch Corp.

February 1, 2007
DURHAM, UK-Bede X-ray Metrology, a global provider of X-ray metrology systems to the semiconductor industry, shipped a BedeScan Defect Detection and Inspection System to Nippon Steel Technoresearch Corp.
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Ultrasonics Ensure Weld Integrity

February 1, 2007
Phased array systems represent the latest development for weld testing, offering sophisticated imaging capability.
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Tech Showcase: Choosing a Transducer

February 1, 2007
Transducers convert energy from one form to another in order to measure a physical quantity or for information transfer. This broad definition includes microphones, thermometers and position and pressure sensors.
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Automating Color Matching

February 1, 2007
Color is one of the most important visual cues that humans have for inspecting objects. Yet, color is a subjective value that depends on an object’s illumination and viewing environment as well as its spectral properties. To automate color-based inspection, a machine vision system must model after the behavior of human eyesight.
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Back to Basics: Video Inspection

February 1, 2007
To improve the quality of visual inspections of hard-to-reach areas such as deep bores or complex castings, borescope video inspection is an effective answer. Borescopes are optical instruments, akin to medical endoscopes, that allow operators to inspect products or components that they cannot inspect via other means.
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