The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has released RFID: Tool Tracking Solutions, part of its award-winning Manufacturing Insights video series. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the process and physical infrastructure in which a unique identifier is transferred from a device (tag) to a reader via radio frequency waves, is used in a variety of applications both in the supply chain as well as manufacturing to improve performance of manufacturing processes and to increase accuracy in the supply chain. The video, authored by Manuel A. Pachano, shows the infrastructure and technology behind RFID as well as the real-world practical applications, challenges and advantages of using RFID to support quality and productivity.
KineticSystems has launched SoftView, a tool that integrates KineticSystems’ entire line of PXI/CompactPCI instruments into a single software package. At the touch of a button, the user can invoke operations on the instrument such as calibration, reset, data acquisition start and stop. The touch of another button brings up a dialog for configuring all of the instrument’s properties such as overall sample rate, individual channel enable, filter range, and input level properties. Once the instrument is configured, the Start button in SoftView activates data acquisition. The instrument is placed in run mode, and the input signals from enabled channels are displayed in a real-time graph window or a numeric table. Autonomous events (interrupts) are displayed as well. With a few mouse clicks, the user can explore the instrument’s functionalities and properties, adjust filter, input range, debounce, and other settings, as well as start acquisition and test the results immediately. www.kscorp.com
MONTREAL (CNW Telbec) – Mitec Telecom Inc.’s next generation satellite technology has been installed in a GSM base station in the Himalayan mountain range as part of China Mobile’s initiative to provide video coverage of the upcoming Beijing Olympic torch relay.
The base station, located at an elevation of 20,000 feet, will provide local cellular service and video transmission of the Beijing Olympic torch relay as it crosses the Himalayas, one of the highest points on Earth. Mitec’s technology will support mobile service for future expeditions to this region.
