OFS launhes high-density and speed fiber
OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products has introduced AccuRiser™ Indoor/Outdoor Ribbon Cable designed to offer high-fiber density and speed of deployment in the backbone of Data…
Nasa uses Molex’s optical fiber
Molex’ Polymicro Technologies™ optical fiber is being used to build NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). The satellite, slated to be launched in 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,…
Brass inserts provide reusable metal threads
Type MSIB™ microPEM® brass inserts from PennEngineering® provide reusable metal threads to attach plastics securely in compact electronic assemblies. Their unique symmetrical shape will accommodate either straight or tapered holes and eliminate any…
Alloy Wire International celebrates 250th customer in the spring manufacturing field
Alloy Wire International (AWI) is celebrating its 250th customer in the spring manufacturing sector. The goal has been reached by technical expertise, an ever increasing range of high performance alloys and fast lead…
Lancaster introduces black finished fasteners
Lancaster Fastener Co Ltd is now equipped to have any of its zinc plated and stainless steel fasteners finished black within a very short time frame to satisfy the demand for fasteners with…
Anccem – Ethics and industry: the marriage has to be renewed
The fourth industrial revolution embodied by the strategies of Industry 4.0 has been the central issue of the national convention of the association of Italian spring makers recently held in Verona. Beyond technologies,…
Case History / Athader and Control Techniques
A leading coil processing equipment manufacturer has introduced variable speed drives from Control Techniques, an Emerson business Athader, based near San Sebastian in northern Spain, manufactures coil processing lines, mainly slitting lines and…
Silver wires
They are actually silver nanowires, whose characteristics and properties are originating innovative applications, to the extent that we can state we are facing a new technology. Nanowires, according to an unofficial but commonly…
Optical switch based on nanofibres
Computers translate, or better digitize letters, numbers, images and sounds into a set of 8 zeroes and ones, i.e. into bytes. The word “test”, for instance, is translated into the sequence 01110000 01110010…
A new speed record for optical fibres
It seems that universities and research centres are competing to win the record of the fastest optical fibre connection in the world. The ultrafast target is not an end in itself, representing especially…
