Read the Rockwell Automation and ISMG research report: Cybersecurity Preparedness in Critical Infrastructure.
Critical Infrastructure organizations increasingly realize that downtime from cyberattack can be catastrophic. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, for example, resulted in 5 days of downtime,...
Published: Jun 22, 2022
Heavy equipment engineers need to continuously improve and optimize equipment designs, but how can they get product designs right sooner to meet both project and product targets? Predictive performance engineering has tremendous business potential and allows companies to unlock new levels of innovation and performance....
Published: Jun 07, 2022
Your sump pump is your home’s first line of defense against flooding. Without battery backup during a power outage, your sump pump will stop working and your home will be placed at risk.
For anyone with a little mechanical aptitude, a DIY system consisting of an inverter/charger and one or more batteries...
This whitepaper discusses the factors that need to be considered when selecting rated currents of circuit breakers.
Thermal circuit breakers for equipment (CBE) protect motors and transformers against electrical overloading. The trip release of a breaker takes place with the deflection of a bimetal. This deflection...
It is important to first insure the solder is lead-free solder compatible. High tin alloys tend to leach iron causing dissolution of iron and solder contamination. The dissolution can advance to the point of causing micro-cracks and thinning of the walls, eventually resulting in a solder spill.
If a pot is lead-free...
Effective control of noise and vibration, whatever the application, usually requires several techniques, each of which contributes to a quieter environment.
This paper will focus on the methods of structural damping and vibration isolation, which deal with reducing structural vibration.
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Changes in power supply design are rarely revolutionary. Rather, they are evolutionary and dependent upon a host of component and manufacturing technologies that, for the most part, develop at a modest pace. Moore’s law simply doesn’t apply to power supply design; if it did, a 200 W switcher the size of a thumbnail...
Today’s array of coin cell holders is hardly up to the challenges presented by the ever-increasing array of portable devices. With consumers expecting handheld gadgets to work perfectly anywhere at any time, engineers are presented with some unique problems.
Vibration. Heat. Shock. Humidity. Corrosion. Pressure....
Although not part of the PCI Express spec, nontransparent bridging is completely consistent with it and can support multiprocessor systems with only minimal software initialization efforts.
For PCI Express technology to realize its full potential as the interconnect solution for chip-to-chip and backplane switching...
Reliability is one of the most important factors that a designer needs to consider when specifying components or subsystems – particularly when the component in question is the power supply on which an entire assembly relies. And yet reliability figures are possibly the most ambiguous on any datasheet – including...
In many switching power converters, rectifier diodes are used to obtain the DC output voltage. The conduction loss of a diode rectifier contributes significantly to the overall power loss, especially for low-voltage, high-current converter applications. The conduction loss of a rectifying diode is given by the product...
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, cost effective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Vicor’s new Factorized...
When considering gate drive requirements, the three most important parameters for eGaN FETs are (1) the maximum allowable gate voltage, (2) the gate threshold voltage, and (3) the “body diode” voltage drop.
eGaN FETs differ from their silicon counterparts because of their significantly faster switching...
Test engineers spend as much as 50 percent of their time (or even more in some cases) actively dealing with obsolescence in their test program sets.
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Published: Mar 03, 2021
