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The Board of Directors of TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectors and sensors, has unanimously approved a proposed change of the company’s place of incorporation from Switzerland to Ireland. Shareholders will be asked to vote in favour of the proposal at a Special General Meeting of Shareholders in Zurich, Switzerland. If approved, TE expects to implement the change in 2024.

TE Connectivity does not anticipate any material change in its operations or financial results as a result of the change of domicile. The company will continue to be registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will be subject to the same SEC reporting requirements. The company’s common shares will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TEL. Switzerland will continue to serve as a TE leadership hub for critical strategic and operational functions.

“After careful consideration, our board of directors has determined that this change is in the best long-term interest of the company and our shareholders and will help position TE for continued success,” said Chief Executive Officer Terrence Curtin. “This move will not impact our customers or employees and we are excited to continue working together to create a safer, sustainable, productive and connected future.”

Is there a standout Test & Measurement product that you think deserves to be recognised with an award? If the answer is yes, then now is the time to nominate that product for an Instrumentation Excellence Award. The Instrumentation Excellence Awards (IEAs) celebrate the very best from the world of test, measurement, sensing and control.

The 2024 awards ceremony, organised by Instrumentation Monthly publisher Datateam Business Media, will take place on 24 October at the Grand Connaught Rooms and will once again take place alongside the Electronics Industry Awards, making it the night of the year for networking. Entering the Awards is quick, easy and completely free of charge – so there’s no need to delay! To make your entry really stand out from the crowd, it is recommended that you try to include a comprehensive overview of the product or company that you have nominated. There is even the option to include supplementary documents like data sheets and images alongside your nomination.  

Visit www.instrumentationawards.co.uk to make your nomination and to find out more about the Instrumentation Excellence Awards. 

Is there a standout gas detection product that you think deserves to be recognised with an award? If the answer is yes, then now is the time to nominate that product for an Instrumentation Excellence Award. The Instrumentation Excellence Awards (IEAs) celebrate the very best from the world of test, measurement, sensing and control.

The 2024 awards ceremony, organised by Instrumentation Monthly publisher Datateam Business Media, will take place on 24 October at the Grand Connaught Rooms and will once again take place alongside the Electronics Industry Awards, making it the night of the year for networking.

Entering the Awards is quick, easy and completely free of charge – so there’s no need to delay! To make your entry really stand out from the crowd, it is recommended that you try to include a comprehensive overview of the product or company that you have nominated. There is even the option to include supplementary documents like data sheets and images alongside your nomination.  

Nominations close soon so visit www.instrumentationawards.co.uk to make your nomination and to find out more about the Instrumentation Excellence Awards. 

Automation parts supplier EU Automation has published a new guide that is a must-read for engineers wanting to deploy condition-based maintenance (CBM) to improve operating efficiencies and increase profitability. It provides valuable insight so engineers can best implement a CBM strategy to realise its full benefits.

The handy guide helps engineers understand how CBM with real-time monitoring can offer an intelligent solution for maximising equipment uptime – protecting revenues and profits. The guide outlines how well-maintained equipment is typically more productive, enabling maintenance teams to meet critical key performance indicators. It describes how advances in technologies such as sensors and data analytics have seen CBM based on real-time monitoring emerge as a powerful tool in connected factories of the future, supporting engineers in their daily roles.

CBM can deliver significant benefits across manufacturing organisations. According to research by IBM, these benefits include:

• Prevention of equipment failures and downtime.
• Extension of asset lifespan.
• Improved safety through enhanced issue detection.
• Reduced maintenance costs.
• Improved maintenance efficiency.

“Knowing where to start with a CBM strategy can be a challenge, and that’s where this useful guide helps,” says Darren Halford, Managing Director at EU Automation. “The valuable report outlines the obstacles faced when establishing a CBM strategy, for example, high upfront costs, and gives the reader useful information about how to overcome them best.”

The guide explains how to structure a CBM monitoring system and gives real-life examples of how manufacturers have saved costs by deploying CBM into their operations. Readers can learn how to design a CBM network for real-time monitoring from both a hardware and software perspective, as well as understand the key considerations to take, such as choosing the right sensor technologies.

The guide also goes on to outline how engineers can visualise their data and provides handy hints and tips, for example, by ensuring that the software package selected has been used before in the engineer’s specific sector and it is compatible with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) systems operated.

Additionally, the report highlights seven steps to successful CBM, including defining the CBM project, identifying critical equipment and putting information into action.

“Catching potential problems through real-time CBM early is essential to improving factory uptime, streamlining maintenance costs and staffing activities,” continues Darren Halford, Managing Director at EU Automation. “The best starting point for CBM and real-time monitoring is to determine what items of the plant are the most critical and those that are most likely to fail, and then choose the most suitable sensors for those. Working with experienced partners like EU Automation can help engineers ensure a CBM strategy is suitable for their industrial operation and realise the full benefits.”

For further information and to download EU Automation’s “Reducing costs and boosting uptime with condition-based maintenance and real time monitoring” guide visit

https://www.euautomation.com/uk/knowledge-hub/industries/condition-based-maintenance/industry-report

FANUC’s CRX Series of Collaborative Robots makes it simple and quick for manufacturers to get automation up and running. Designed to be easily integrated with peripheral devices, Vectro®2 is the latest addition to the series of FANUC CRX-Ready products.

Vectro®2 with FANUC CRX unlocks quick and easy automation of 2D profile measurements for both metrology control and process control applications. This integration enables manufacturers to automate the measurement of gap and flush, edge, radius, chamfer, angle, and many other profile features.

Michael Briggs, Sales and Engineering Manager at Third Dimension adds, “Vectro®2 is a plug and play non-contact gauging solution making it the ideal tool for the FANUC CRX series of collaborative robots. As well as this, the FANUC CRX ‘expansion pack’ includes a custom software plugin that integrates Vectro®2 functionality into the graphical user interface of the FANUC Tablet Teach Pendant.

Adding Vectro®2 commands to a robot program couldn’t be simpler, operators simply drag and drop the Vectro®2 ‘Measure’ icon into the program timeline and select the desired tool from a dropdown list. Automating inspection and measurement tasks has never been easier!”

Third Dimension’s flagship automated product, Vectro®2, is a proven tool for fast, accurate, and traceable measurement and inspection of 2D profiles typical of extrusions, welds, seals, adhesive beads, edge breaks and panel gap and flush applications. Seamless to integrate with a robot, customer solutions can be rapidly deployed to eliminate human error from their quality control processes, ensure accurate, repeatable, and traceable results every time, and free-up skilled technicians to provide significant cost-savings.

The integration of these technologies will allow Third Dimension and FANUC to rapidly deploy advanced robotic metrology solutions to deliver vast improvements in process traceability and consistency, and the ability to exploit real-time time data to make automatic process control manufacturing decisions for intelligent and efficient manufacturing.

Dynisma, the leading UK-based motion simulator technology company, has agreed a partnership with McLaren Automotive (McLaren) which will see it supply the British high-performance supercar manufacturer with a state-of-the-art driving simulator, becoming the brand’s Official Motion Simulator Partner.

Bringing a revolutionary approach to virtual automotive road car development, and having been bred in topflight motorsport, Dynisma Motion Generators (DMGs) are already in use by multiple leading automotive OEMs worldwide, the technology bringing game-changing benefits by setting new standards, pairing the lowest latency with the highest bandwidth to create the most immersive, realistic, and responsive driving simulation experience in the world.

The agreement signed sees Dynisma become McLaren’s Official Motion Simulator Partner with the company’s expert team set to work closely with McLaren over the coming years to fully support the brand’s engineering division in advanced vehicle development programmes enabling it to maximise every benefit of its cutting-edge driving simulator.

Set to be operational at McLaren’s Technology Centre (MTC) in Woking, Surrey, in 2024, the new simulator will be used to virtually develop new McLaren models in a host of key areas, including vehicle dynamics and aerodynamics, propulsion systems, Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH), control systems and Human Machine Interface (HMI), User Experience (UX) and ergonomics.

Thanks to their ultra-realistic experience, Dynisma’s simulators can accelerate new car development, eliminating the need for multiple, expensive, physical prototypes while enabling countless tests and parallel projects to take place in an efficient, repeatable, sustainable, and closed environment. Dynisma’s technology is already helping global OEMs bring new vehicles to market quicker.

Emmanuele Raveglia, McLaren Vehicle Line Executive Director, said: “We’re very pleased to announce that we are working with Dynisma as our Official Motion Simulator Partner. Harnessing their DMG™ technology allows us to significantly enhance our early performance development and elevate the emotional thrill of driving a McLaren even higher.”

Ash Warne, Dynisma CEO, said: “I am delighted to announce this agreement with McLaren Automotive, a company with whom we share a relentlessly pioneering mindset. McLaren first proved the benefits of using high-performance driving simulators to develop race cars twenty years ago and so for Dynisma to now become McLaren’s Official Motion Simulator Partner because of our world-leading technology makes me especially proud. To add to that, I also started my engineering career with McLaren Racing back in 2007, so it is fantastic to come full circle.

“Our Dynisma Motion Generators bring a totally revolutionary approach to car development, enabling near perfect correlation between testing and real life – breakthrough features that are already being enjoyed by automotive OEMs globally through the supply of multiple simulators to date. As McLaren’s Official Motion Simulator Partner, we will have an especially close relationship and are looking forward to supporting McLaren as it maximises our world-leading technologies in the development of its next-generation high-performance supercars, enabling it to deliver the most thrilling driving experiences imaginable.”

Developed and built in-house by a team of world-class engineers committed to pioneering solutions in motion generation, Dynisma supplies leading automotive OEMs and motorsport teams around the world. After starting with a simulator commission within the top tier of motorsport, Dynisma now has contracts with multiple car makers and racing teams.

As part of its ongoing expansion, Dynisma’s growth saw the opening of its state-of-the-art 15,000-square feet campus in Bristol last year, where the design, development, engineering and demonstration of the company’s cutting-edge simulators takes place for a global customer base.

Farnell has announced a partnership with Keysight Technologies to bring an enhanced range of high-end test and measurement instruments to engineers, researchers, and developers worldwide.

The new range of premium instruments from Keysight provides engineers with the ability to perform fast and accurate measurements, ensuring precision in research, development, and production environments. With Farnell’s commitment to providing engineers with high performance tools, this partnership complements Keysight’s mission to empower innovation and excellence.

Keysight’s premium range of distribution products available from Farnell include:

1. Infiniium EXR-Series with models ranging from 500 MHz to 6 GHz
2. CXA signal analysers – with options from 9 kHz to 26.5 GHz
3. FieldFox RF analysers
4. EXG and MXG RF Signal Generators to 6 GHz

Christelle Mazella, Senior Manager, Test & Measurement, EMEA & APAC at Farnell said, “We are excited to partner with Keysight Technologies to bring this enhanced line of high-end products to our customers. The expanded range ensures that our customers have access to the latest technology, higher value, and customisation options to meet their specific needs.”

The Keysight premium range of distribution products are now available from Farnell in EMEA.

Analog Devices, Inc. has announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and the commercial launch of the Sensinel™ Cardiopulmonary Management (CPM) System. The compact wearable device is a non-invasive, remote management system that captures cardiopulmonary measurements for chronic disease management such as heart failure. It is the first FDA clearance the company has received in its 59-year history.

“Since our founding, ADI has focused on accelerating breakthroughs that enrich lives through innovative products,” said Patrick O’Doherty, Senior Vice President of Digital Healthcare at ADI. “By combining our wearable vital signs sensing and signal processing technology with cardiologist-inspired algorithms to precisely determine a congestive heart failure patient’s daily state of health, we developed the Sensinel CPM System. This innovative service-based product has the potential to open up several billion dollars of green-field market opportunity for ADI while improving patient care, streamlining clinician workflows, and reducing healthcare cost.”

More than 6 million Americans are living with heart failure today, and this number is estimated to rise to nearly 8 million by 2030.¹ Heart failure currently costs Americans approximately $30 billion each year, and this is expected to rise to almost $70 billion by 2030.¹ Approximately 80% of those costs are due to hospitalisation.¹ Other prior solutions measuring similar parameters have shown the ability to reduce hospital admissions. However, oftentimes these solutions are either invasive and/or do not provide sensitive and specific enough data to make a meaningful clinical impact. This data is critical to allow the care team to predict an event early enough in advance to potentially avoid a costly hospitalisation for the patient.

The Sensinel CPM System is the next-generation solution for management of cardiopulmonary diseases like heart failure. It is equipped with a set of physiological indicators to help care teams better manage chronic conditions early and remotely, as well as in a precise manner. Patients self-apply ADI’s Sensinel CPM Wearable which they only wear for three to five minutes in a home care setting.

The device then captures data about their cardiopulmonary health. This data is automatically uploaded to ADI’s Sensinel CPM Cloud Platform using a cellular link (without the need for a patient-supplied Internet connection) and is then further analysed using ADI’s Sensinel CPM Intelligent Algorithms in the cloud.

“Early detection of physiological changes is critical for clinicians to prevent a heart failure hospitalisation,” said Dr. Sean Pinney, Chief of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Morningside in New York City. “ADI’s Sensinel CPM System is a highly accurate, reproducible, and reliable solution to help improve predictive care.”

“When managing chronic conditions like heart failure, it is critical to adjust treatment early to get the condition under control without the need for hospitalisation. Other existing non-invasive solutions are not specific enough to provide the data a clinician needs to be effective for early intervention,” said Dr. Venu Gopinathan, ADI Fellow and Managing Director of Medical Products at ADI. “Our new cardiopulmonary system is designed to fit seamlessly into the workflow of care and perform a variety of physiological measurements that allow care teams to make early clinical decisions, without subjecting them to information overload.”

ADI’s Sensinel CPM System is now commercially available. For more information, visit https://sensinel.analog.com.

Danisense, the leader in high-accuracy current sense transducers for demanding applications, has officially opened the new 800 square meter extension of its headquarters in Taastrup, Denmark. This now gives Danisense a lot more office space (20+ new desks / workstations plus two new meeting rooms), a new production facility plus a 15x increase of storage space in the new high storage. 106 solar panels on the roof make the new building very energy efficient and environmentally friendly and four EV charging points in the car park allow employees to conveniently charge their EVs while at work.

The existing headquarters building has also been renovated. New improved insulation and new outdoor blinds make it more energy efficient. The parking area has been extended and the entrance area, the canteen plus the meeting rooms have all received a complete new look and feel. Furthermore an automatic fire alarm system that directly notifies the local fire department in case of a fire has been installed in both buildings.

 Comments Loic Moreau, Sales & Marketing Director at Danisense: “The extension of our headquarters now gives us much needed additional space for our growing workforce as well as our production and storage facilities.” Moreau continues: “Already over the last couple of months we have added several new members of staff to our Engineering and R&D teams and we are very much looking forward to extending our product range in the very near future and to the future growth of Danisense.” 

Learn more about Danisense here.