When Outsourcing Electronics Design of Your Product Is a Good Idea? Outsourcing to fill a resource gap as a business practice is common and widespread in the modern global economy. As the costs of hiring highly qualified technical experts are growing, and finding the right talent gets more and more difficult amid the widening tech…
Chip on Board and Wire Bonding Applications Wire bonding is a standard electrical interconnect technology used in assembling the vast majority of semiconductor packages. It is also a cost-effective and flexible way of attaching a ‘chip-on-board’ directly to a PCB assembly and provides various advantages over using regular ICs. Having a broad experience of utilizing…
Vibration Analysis for Predictive Maintenance of Manufacturing Equipment As the modern-day business environment gets increasingly competitive and new disruptive technologies enter the scene, manufacturers are facing the need to maximize productivity and minimize machinery and equipment maintenance costs. The ability to identify machine defects before they cause failures, resulting in unplanned downtime and production losses,…
COM-HPC: New Standard Empowers Embedded Systems The embedded computing industry has recently (in the early 2021) approved COM-HPC (short for computer-on-module (COM) – high performance compute (HPC) as the next-generation standard for modular system designs. It promises to boost the power and capabilities of edge computing and introduce a selection of new applications for COM-HPC…
Ultrasonic Testing. New Generation of Non-Destructive Inspection Devices Ultrasonic testing (UT) with gauges and transducers is one of the most important non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques available today, and it has multiple powerful applications across various industries. Just recently, Tauro Tech’s engineers have finished an important project in this field, designing and producing a new ultrasonic…
Replicated Memory for Industrial and Real-Time Systems Today, in the era of rapid automation, real-time data collection and transmission is essential to the function of various systems and applications even the shortest delays are not acceptable as they can cause errors and interruptions of other processes. Complex industrial automation applications operating in parallel exchange…
Digital Lateral Flow Testing and Possible Applications Lateral flow tests (LFTs), also known as lateral flow assays or rapid tests, are currently widely used in medical diagnostics due to simplicity of this technology and the fact that LFTs don’t require complex and expensive equipment. Today, with a new generation of connected smart devices, this technology…
Optimizing Machine Vision with Stereo Cameras and Time of Flight Sensors The physical world is three-dimensional and Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on the input of vision systems to make decisions. Stereo vision camera systems deploy two or more lenses to make it possible to perceive depth by analyzing the deformation in the image. Time of…
Advantages in Machine Vision on the Edge Efficiency of Artificial intelligence (AI) utilizing vision systems to manage autonomous vehicles and robots is at the core of well designed unmanned system. Putting that AI processing close to the machine vision cameras and time-of-flight sensors, offers a breakthrough for a wide range of manufacturing and logistics applications. …