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IPE OFF-Board Connectors - The Backbone of Modern Manufacturing
February 9, 2024
IPE OFF-board connectors are vital for seamless communication in industrial automation, driving efficiency, safety, and innovation in modern manufacturing.
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How IPE OFF-Board Products contribute to Aerospace and Defence Successes
February 9, 2024
In aerospace and defense, IPE OFF-board products enhance machine reliability and efficiency, crucial for secure and proficient operation of complex systems.
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How IPE OFF-Board Products are key to the Renewables Revolution
February 9, 2024
Renewable energy's surge demands reliable IPE OFF-board products like connectors and bus bars for seamless integration and efficient power transmission.
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Enabling reliable, efficient EV Charging with OFF-Board Components
February 9, 2024
To accelerate the EV transition, reliable and efficient charging infrastructure is crucial. IPE OFF-board products play a vital role in meeting this need.
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How to Select Power Supplies for Medical Devices
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James Spencer
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February 8, 2024
This article aims to assist in selecting the correct power supply for medical applications. It explains the main factors to consider in identifying the optimal power supply option and provides a brief overview.
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Fibre optics - the hidden enabler of our daily lives
August 3, 2023
Fibre optic systems are well-known for their role within the telecommunications industry.
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What are the most common fiber optics problems?
May 5, 2023
Fiber optic communication uses pulses of light to transmit data along thin strands of glass or plastic.
When your next tractor is a Tesla
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Alessandro Mastellari
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January 25, 2022
The automotive industry is rapidly shifting toward Electric Vehicles (EVs), but there’s another category of vehicles ripe for electrification: ‘Non-Road Mobile Machinery’ (NRMM), as the regulators put it.
Funding of European solar startups up 414% YoY at the end of Q2
July 13, 2023
Investment in European solar startups is up 414% year-on-year, by the end of Q2, with companies receiving $6.53 billion by the end of Q2 compared with $1.27 billion raised by this time last year.
Key trends across the development of MedTech devices
June 9, 2023
The healthcare industry is facing a unique combination of challenges over the coming decades.
Why should you consider a smart monitoring system for your diesel generator?
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Philip Ling
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March 10, 2023
The IoT is changing the way we manage and maintain essential assets. Smart sensors, cloud-based analytics and remote management are coming together to increase productivity, efficiency and reliability.
The IoT is ready for the era of virtual clinical trials
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Philip Ling
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March 10, 2023
Clinical trials take time and money, but they also need participants and lots of data. The IoT is now being used to capture that data from participants virtually and to conduct clinical trials in the digital domain.
IoT startups receive record funding despite venture capital cool-down
March 10, 2023
The average amount of capital raised by IoT startups in 2022 reached the highest point in over a decade, despite a 22% drop in total funding within the sector and an overall 35% decline in venture capital markets.
Investigating the design challenges of EV charging
March 10, 2023
As we emerged from lockdowns across the region, the shift in consumer preferences for buying an electric vehicle became very apparent.
Build better IoT applications
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Philip Ling
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March 10, 2023
More OEMs like you now favor a microservice architecture. Remove the barriers to agile development and give your engineers greater freedom. The results will be worth the effort of migration.
An introduction to EV charger design: the power stages
September 19, 2022
EV chargers operate in a sometimes-harsh environment, but must be efficient and reliable with a long service lifetime. This blog picks out and discusses some components that are critical to achieving these goals.
Specifying effective components to meet the needs of industrial & building automation
March 15, 2022
The way that industrial locations are run is currently going through a step-change, with greater use of automation being a top priority for many companies. Thanks to this, production output may be boosted and efficiency levels increased.
Redefining healthcare & the interconnection technology repercussions
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Marco Enge
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February 16, 2022
As healthcare applications move out of the hospital and into patients' homes, electronic components must be adapted to a new set of criteria. Here Marco Enge explores how these criteria are affecting connector design.
What does miniaturisation mean for connector selection?
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Paul Jones
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February 9, 2022
As electronic systems become smaller, they also require more component parts in increasingly space-constrained environments to meet extra expectations on functionality. Here Paul Jones explores what they means for connector selection across markets.
Engineering better railways
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Philip Lechner
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January 25, 2022
The pressure to decarbonise the economy affects every aspect of our lives, from what we eat to how we travel. It is driving innovation throughout the transport sector, and particularly in railways.
The robots are coming
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Hagen Goetze
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January 25, 2022
Industrial robots can be enormously effective for automating high-value, repetitive, and often unsafe processes, such as handling heavy castings or welding body seams on vehicle production lines.
Making farming smarter with next generation connectivity
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Paul Jones
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January 18, 2022
Paul Jones looks at how the latest technological advances will help to make the global agriculture sector function more efficiently - and what the implications will be on connector selection.
Better batteries build more sustainable electronics
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Marc Eichhorn
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December 6, 2021
IoT ecosystems are reliant on distributing many Things into a wide variety of arbitrary environments. However, the key to the long term, low maintenance operation of these remote devices lies a combination of battery technology and energy harvesting.
How will connectivity enable next generation autonomous vehicles?
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Sascha Spillner
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December 6, 2021
It’s clear that the car of the future is autonomous, but what does that autonomy look like, and how will connector technologies play a role in enabling it?
Next Generation PCB-mounted relays in EV charging systems
2021 is shaping up to be the year in which adoption of the Electric Vehicle takes off. First half sales in the key markets of China, the USA and Europe, accounted for 26% of all new vehicle sales, globally and, in the UK alone.
How shifting to modular machine design enables Industry 4.0 strategies
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Paul Jones
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September 22, 2021
As more and more factory and warehouse operations adopt Industry 4.0, large machinery is moving away from centralised control models to more modular machine designs. So what challenges are machine designers facing, and how can they overcome them?
From AC to DC: powering intelligent buildings
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Philip Lechner
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September 21, 2021
There is a lot of interest in how to power the electronic and electrical devices in buildings of the future. Not just limited to energy savings, it includes how to integrate new energy sources such as solar, wind turbines and batteries.
The evolution of connectivity for building automation
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Martin Keenan
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September 20, 2021
Buildings are evolving rapidly as developers try to maximise their returns, users’ expectations change, and climate-change mitigation becomes urgent. Building automation systems are being updated to address these concerns.
The growing role of sensors in modern building management systems
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Alessandro Mastellari
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August 13, 2021
Today's intelligent buildings measure a multitude of building parameters. Here Alessandro Mastellari explores the sensing technologies employed to collect environmental data.
Finding the right fuse for the task: Five criteria for fuse selection
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Jerry Moss
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August 11, 2021
Regardless of what an electronic system does, it will contain one or multiple fuses. So making the right choice for your design is key. Read how in this five point guide.
