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echnician reviewing wireless vibration measurements from a protected position near an industrial fan.

How Wireless Field Balancing Can Improve Technician Safety

Why distance matters during field balancing Balancing a fan, rotor or other rotating assembly normally involves more than one measurement. The technician records the original vibration, adds a known trial weight, calculates a correction and then checks the result. Depending on …

Rugged computing, data-recording and interface hardware in a defence systems integration environment.

Managing Obsolescence in Mission-Critical Rugged Computing Systems

When support ends but the mission continues A rugged computer can remain central to a vehicle, aircraft or other mission-critical platform long after its original components become difficult to source. The operational requirement may not have changed at all. However, the …

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Chemical Tank Level Monitoring

Chemical tank level monitoring gives operators remote visibility of stored liquids across industrial, agricultural and processing facilities. As a result, businesses can improve inventory planning, schedule deliveries and respond sooner when tank levels move outside nominated limits. LevelCon combines compatible industrial …

How Rugged Embedded Computers in C5ISR Systems Work

Modern Military Operations Demand Computing at the Tactical Edge Modern defence operations generate enormous volumes of information from sensors, communications equipment, autonomous platforms and mission systems. Surveillance cameras, radar, electronic warfare sensors, GPS receivers, unmanned vehicles and battlefield networks all produce …

FPGA for Defence

FPGA Technology for Defence Systems: What Engineers Need to Know

What is an FPGA? A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device. Firstly, that allows engineers to implement custom digital hardware circuits after the device has been manufactured. An FPGA contains: These elements can be configured to implement complex …

Huntron Workstation 4.3.9313 software update with new instructions editor and component teaching improvements.

Huntron Workstation 4.3.9313 Released

Huntron has announced the release of Workstation version 4.3.9313, delivering important new features, fixes, and usability improvements. As the exclusive distributor for Huntron in Australia and New Zealand, Metromatics is here to support local users with upgrades, training, and technical assistance. …

Discover how Industrial Ethernet Switches drive Smart Agriculture in Australia, enabling precision farming, automation, and efficient connectivity for sustainable and high-yield farming operations

Industrial Ethernet Switches in Smart Agriculture

Today, we are going to talk about Industrial Ethernet Switches and how they have become a key component in the development of Smart Agriculture Technologies. The Rise of Smart Agriculture in Australia Firstly, when most of us think about farming equipment, …

Industrial Networking at Railway Station

Enhancing Passenger Rail with Industrial Networking

This article on Industrial Networking on Rail was kindly provided by our friends at Antaira. Background: In the fast-paced world of public transportation, particularly in passenger rail systems.  Ensuring the safe and timely transport of large populations requires more than just …