Electrical & Process Control As things get bigger and more complex inevitably there is a greater need to monitor and control everything. Get up to speed on the latest in how engineers are tackling these problems in electrical and process control.
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The Shaw Group Inc . and Westinghouse Electric Company, its AP1000 Consortium team member, today announced, along with China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and Nuclear Construction Company, the successful placement of the first major structural module at the Sanmen nuclear power plant project.
The plant is owned by Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (SMNPC) and located in China's Zhejiang province. |
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Monday 14 September, 2009 02:30 PM |
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Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.
If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Virtually all the features of the Stanford camera focus, exposure, shutter speed, flash, etc. are at the command of software that can be created by inspired programmers anywhere. The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source, said computer science professor Marc Levoy. |
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Sunday 13 September, 2009 04:06 PM |
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Consultant Atkins will open its nuclear training academy to other companies working in the nuclear industry.
The news comes on the back of a report by nuclear skills body Cogent, who estimate that 1,000 new nuclear engineers must be trained every year until 2025 to maintain and decomission our existing nuclear infrastructure.
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Friday 11 September, 2009 02:37 PM |
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A demand slump in the global semiconductor industry notwithstanding, Indian R&D centres of global chip majors are playing crucial
role in designing products for global rollouts. Over the past few months, Indian centres have seen greater proportion of value-added semiconductor design being carried out while in some cases, the captives have handled end-to-end product design. |
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Friday 11 September, 2009 12:36 PM |
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I've been developing software for quite a few years. One of the issues that seems to come up again and again in my work is this concept of design and implementation. I recall it being a significant part of my education at the University of Waterloo's Computer Engineering program as well. The message was always the same. Never write code first. First you must design software by writing a design document, flow charts, pseudo-code, timing charts... then it's merely a trivial matter of implementing it. Make note of the attitude here given towards implementing. The real work is in the design, and it's just a trivial matter of implementing it. It sounds so simple doesn't it? Now, how often does this work out in real life?
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Thursday 10 September, 2009 08:38 AM |
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While Chinese semiconductor companies have produced some design wins, the general perception is that China's design shops are good with common reference designs but struggle to produce true silicon breakthroughs. This is likely a product of the variable quality of engineers produced by China's fledgling academic programs.
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 04:04 PM |
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Today's aerospace companies must reduce development time and improve quality, while accommodating demands for greater system complexity from customers and the government. To meet these challenges, industry-leading companies have adopted Model-Based Design .
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Wednesday 2 September, 2009 08:10 PM |
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BASF and Delta Electronics , Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation. The cooperation partners are working on materials and prototypes for cooling systems and power generators intended to replace conventional compressor technology in refrigerators and air conditioning systems.
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Monday 31 August, 2009 04:25 PM |
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Researchers at the University of California , Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.
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Monday 31 August, 2009 12:22 PM |
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To better serve the upstream oil and gas market, Invensys Operations Management has introduced an improved interface for multi-phase flow simulation. The new solution was developed in conjunction with SPT Group, a leader in dynamic modeling for the oil and gas industry.
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Friday 28 August, 2009 12:36 PM |
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Electrical engineering specialist Quartzelec has set up a new facility that can test the power output and input, vibration, acceleration speeds, temperature and thermal stability of some of the world’s largest rotating machinery.
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Thursday 27 August, 2009 05:02 PM |
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Disaggregation of the IC and system design chain toward a specialty model has included a growing reliance on outsourcing. That has created an opportunity for developers of advanced tool suites to field design environments in which the "best of the best"--from anywhere around the globe--can be assembled for round-the-clock development of fully optimized designs.
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Tuesday 25 August, 2009 10:24 AM |
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Extreme Engineering Solutions is shipping XCalibur1501, the first MPC8572E based 6U CompactPCI board that scales from commercial to full blown military (conduction-cooled) applications. Targeting Freescale Semiconductor's dual-core MPC 8572E PowerQUICC(TM) III processor, XCalibur1501 is being adopted by commercial, industrial and military system architects demanding high processing performance with low power consumption.
XCalibur1501 is a powerful solution for the next generation of computationally intensive embedded applications and features: |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 04:02 PM |
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The Shaw Group and Westinghouse Electric Company, its AP1000 Consortium team member, today announced, along with China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and Nuclear Construction Company #5, the successful placement of the first major structural module at the Sanmen nuclear power plant project.
The plant is owned by Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (SMNPC) and located in China's Zhejiang province. |
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Tuesday 18 August, 2009 02:12 PM |
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Researchers at IBM and CalTech have taken a design cue from nature in their goal to build ever-smaller microprocessors. The scientists have developed a way to use the structure of synthetic DNA as a sort of scaffolding to allow self-replicating nanoparticles to form miniature circuit boards. The researchers say practical applications of such technologies, if successful, could be eight to 10 years away. |
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Tuesday 18 August, 2009 10:09 AM |
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General Fusion's reactor design consists of 220 pistons that simultaneously ram a metal sphere. This creates a shock wave inside the sphere, so that plasma rings in the center create a fusion reaction. Credit: General Fusion. |
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Wednesday 5 August, 2009 05:47 PM |
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Powerful high-level software tools give domain experts in such diverse fields as aerospace engineering and medical electronics increasing control over the design and verification of embedded systems. What’s more, the tools themselves are adapting, with graphical design environments intended for test now aiding the design process, and design, modeling, and simulation tools enabling such techniques as HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) testing. |
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Tuesday 4 August, 2009 12:29 AM |
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Emerson Process Management’s project execution expertise and digital automation solutions have enabled Pernod Ricard Nordic, market leader within the Northern European spirits market, to increase the accuracy and speed of recipe changes. This has led to improved production efficiency and product consistency, as well as reduced waste at a new bitters blending facility in Aalborg, Denmark, that previously was located at Dalby. |
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Friday 24 July, 2009 01:41 PM |
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Heason Technology has won a £250,000 order from Synchrotron Soleil, the French national synchrotron facility and research laboratory, to design and manufacture a 14-axis nano-scale manipulator to position samples.
Four separate nano-positioning manipulators will be combined to provide the 14 axes that will be used to position samples and optics for an exciting new soft x-ray scanning photoemission micros
cope project called ANTARES.
ANTARES will provide the global scientific community with the means to examine structures at the atomic level and will be of benefit to pioneering research in soft condensed matter in areas of interest, such as microelectronics and nanotechnology. |
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Monday 20 July, 2009 08:38 PM |
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A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world’s poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit. |
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Monday 20 July, 2009 04:35 PM |
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The image is ubiquitous — from children's cartoons to TV commercials to literature: a frustrated robot shown with smoke coming out its "ears." What does this tell us? Complex electronics require thermal management. |
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Friday 10 July, 2009 06:55 PM |
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