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Article: Solving the Shortage of Aviation Technicians Through Product Design

he MRO industry is seeing an exodus of retiring mechanics — even as fewer young mechanics sign up to enter the trade. Exacerbating the situation is the extensive training and dated equipment aspiring technicians must contend with before they can join the workforce.

By |March 19th, 2024|Categories: Articles-MTI, Industry-Aerospace, Knowledge Center-MTI, Knowledge Center-Vitrek, News-All Brands|Comments Off on Article: Solving the Shortage of Aviation Technicians Through Product Design

Press Release: Vitrek Supports the Semiconductor Industry’s Urgent Demand for High-Performance Test Equipment Driven by the CHIPS and Science Act

The $52.7 billion legislation passed in 2022 is driving the expansion of US-based semiconductor sector; Vitrek’s product portfolio includes test and data acquisition products essential for advanced R&D and semiconductor manufacturing.

By |December 6th, 2023|Categories: Brand-GaGe, Brand-MTI, Brand-Vitrek, Brands-All, Industry-Manufacturing, Industry-Semiconductor, Industry-Semiconductor-Vitrek, New & Press Releases, News-All Brands, News-Events, News-GaGe, News-Industry, News-MTI, News-Vitrek, Press Releases-Vitrek|Comments Off on Press Release: Vitrek Supports the Semiconductor Industry’s Urgent Demand for High-Performance Test Equipment Driven by the CHIPS and Science Act

CEMENT BOARD QUALITY CONTROL

Cement backer board is used as underlayment for tile floors, walls and counter tops. It is also used as exterior sheathing and in exterior stucco systems. Cement backer board has proven to be more durable than virtually any other underlayment if quality control and thickness is maintained. The Problem: A major cement board manufacturer was faced with the challenge to improve a board production line throughput and decrease the amount of waste in the process. Too thin of cement board material weakens it structurally, while board that is too thick wastes material and resources, as well as drives up production costs. [...]

By |January 30th, 2023|Comments Off on CEMENT BOARD QUALITY CONTROL

MTI Instruments Whitepaper: Capacitance Guide for Industrial Applications

Capacitance Guide for Industrial Applications This guide from MTI Instruments explains what you need to know about using electrical capacitance for measurement in industrial applications, including advanced manufacturing. Basic Principles Capacitance is the ratio of the change in an electric charge to the corresponding change in its electrical potential (i.e., voltage). Capacitors, components that that have the “capacity” to store an electric charge, consist of conductive parallel plates that don’t touch or connect with each other. Instead, these metal plates are electrically-separated by air or a layer of insulating material (i.e., the dielectric). MTI’s [...]

GaGe Whitepaper: Use of a PC-Based Digitizer in a Medical Acoustic Microscopy System

Use of a PC-Based Digitzer in a Medical Acoustic Microscopy System By Andrew Dawson, Ph. D-GaGe (a Vitrek brand) Introduction ABSTRACT: Construction of a medical acoustic microscopy system is discussed with focus upon usage of a PC-based high-performance GaGe RazorMax digitizer. Three main aspects of the RazorMax’s operation are addressed: usage of Dynamic Range Expansion (DRE) to maximize the detectability of small ultrasonic echoes, high-speed PCI Express Data Streaming for the fastest scanning speed and usage of GaGe’s Trigger Out signal for efficient and synchronous ultrasonic triggering. Conventional ultrasonic imaging [...]

By |October 17th, 2023|Categories: Brand-GaGe, Knowledge Center-GaGe, News-GaGe, Whitepapers-GaGe|Comments Off on GaGe Whitepaper: Use of a PC-Based Digitizer in a Medical Acoustic Microscopy System

GaGe Whitepaper: Ground-Breaking Lightning Study Uses GaGe Razor Express High-Speed Digitizer

Ground-Breaking Lightning Study Uses GaGe Razor Express High-Speed Digitizer By Gerald Allgaier, GaGe (a Vitrek brand) Introduction Razor Express digitizer is an integral part of VHF broadband interferometer designed to investigate high-energy radiation from lightning strikes and multi-stroke positive cloud-to-ground flashes. A doctoral dissertation published in 2022 by Michelle Urbani, a PhD candidate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech describes the  development of a VHF broadband interferometer to investigate and better understand unsolved lightning phenomena [1]. Very high frequency (VHF) is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) designation for radio [...]

By |October 17th, 2023|Categories: Brand-GaGe, Knowledge Center-GaGe, News-GaGe, Whitepapers-GaGe|Comments Off on GaGe Whitepaper: Ground-Breaking Lightning Study Uses GaGe Razor Express High-Speed Digitizer

Whitepaper: Why Capacitance? Benefits and Applications of Digital Capacitive Sensors

Industry applications illustrate the versatility and benefits of today's digital capacitive sensor technology. The electrical capacitance formed between a capacitance probe and target surface varies as a function of the distance, or gap, between those two surfaces.

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization Customer Case This customer's application is Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization. Their ultrasonic sensors transmit 16 signals. The customer's requirement is to capture 512 points on the 16 channels, average them together, and then store the data in a buffer, with the system running continuously. They would like to be able to update the average buffer and recapture data as fast as possible. They would then like to log the data to disk or process the data and display an image on the screen. Since the signals coming in from their ultrasonic sensors are very weak, the customer [...]

By |March 13th, 2023|Comments Off on Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

Vitrek Press Release: GaGe Adds New 16-Bit/14-Bit Resolution 2-Channel Models to its Razor Series of High-Speed PCIe Digitizers

GaGe Adds New 16-Bit/14-Bit Resolution 2-Channel Models to its Razor Series of High-Speed PCIe Digitizers Boasting Industry’s Best ENOB New RazorEdge Express 16-bit/14-bit digitizers support A/D sampling rates up to 250 MS/s, while new 14-bit resolution model option is added to existing 16-bit RazorPlus Express with 500 MS/s sampling rate; pricing reduced on 16-bit 500 MS/s RazorPlus/RazorMax Express models; providing best price/performance options aligning with user requirements Lockport, IL—September 6, 2023— GaGe by Vitrek, a US-based manufacturer of high-speed data acquisition and signal recording systems, announces two new versions of its popular Razor Series line of dual-channel (2-CH) [...]

By |August 28th, 2023|Categories: Brand-GaGe, Brands-All, New & Press Releases, News-All Brands, News-GaGe, Press Releases-Vitrek|Comments Off on Vitrek Press Release: GaGe Adds New 16-Bit/14-Bit Resolution 2-Channel Models to its Razor Series of High-Speed PCIe Digitizers

Digitizing Ultrasonic Signals

Digitizing Ultrasonic Signals Customer Case The customer has an ultrasonic signal that he wants to digitize with either 8 or 12-bit resolution. The sampling rate required for this application is a minimum of 16 MSPS (20 MSPS is acceptable). Finally, the data must be acquired for a full 10 seconds. The data is not coming in continuously: it is arriving in bursts one millisecond apart (PRF = 1 KHz). For each trigger the customer wants to capture approximately 200 us of data. Once this data is acquired, the customer wants it saved to the hard drive as a standard [...]

By |March 13th, 2023|Comments Off on Digitizing Ultrasonic Signals
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