OMEGA’s LVTX-10 Series close range ultrasonic distance and level sensors are low-profile-designed ultrasonic transmitter modules optimized to provide continuous measurement of fluids, pastes, or uneven solid bulk materials in constrained working zones.

It was a big year for desalination and water reuse, with two major businesses up for sale, and mega plants grabbing the headlines. We present our top 10 stories of 2016.

I’m beginning to get the hang of this governing thing, Ed confides to his diary, even a Cabinet Minister doesn’t have much direct power but I do have peripheral power – being able to put things on the government agenda and knocking things off the agenda. For instance, I seem to have scuppered the Civil …

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The CBI has radically changed tack from nine months ago when it predicted that the UK would lose 950,00 jobs between 2016 and 2020 as a result of Brexit. Now it is saying that two in five UK companies plan to recruit more staff in 2017. The CBI-Pertemps Network Group Employment Trends Survey found that …

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112.3 million smartphones were sold in China in Q3, reports Digitimes Research, and 118.4 million are expected to be sold in Q4. The Q3 figure represents 30.9% of all smartphones sold in the world. Foreign companie sold 17.1 million units – 15.2% of the shipments which represented decreases of 2.8% on the quarter and 36.7% …

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The evolving IoT market offers product companies tremendous opportunities but presents development teams with an inevitable conflict between product complexity and project timescales, writes Stefan Ingenhaag The IoT market expects that each new product generation extends the previous generation with an innovative set of exciting new features and capabilities. However, the lifetime of each product generation has …

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10% of design engineers are still relying purely on physical prototyping rather than a combination of prototyping and simulation, says a report from 6SigmaET. This could, says 6SigmaET, add significant, unnecessary costs to their designs. The findings come from a survey of over 350 engineers working in industrial, consumer and mass-produced electronics. Rather than running …

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A technology that could enhance both the electrical and thermal conductivity of conventional composite materials has been developed thanks to a collaboration between the University of Surrey, University of Bristol and the aerospace company Bombardier. Carbon fibre composites, composed of reinforcing carbon fibres within a plastic, have revolutionised industries that demand strong, yet light materials. …

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Lockheed Martin has bought a stake in 12 year-old, ADC specialist IQ-Analog of San Diego. Last March DARPA gave IQ-Analog a $4.5 million contract to develop an ADC architecture based on “Traveling Pulse Wave Quantization” which is said to increase conversion rates at less than half the power. The technology is expected to deliver an …

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The ‘Brexit Referendum’ has had a positive effect  on the  component distribution market. Despite the uncertainty created by the referendum vote in the summer, the distribution market in the UK is likely to show a better than expected 3% growth in 2016, according to the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). Aubrey Dunford, market analyst at the …

Read full article: Brexit is not all bad, says UK manufacturing market