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May 21, 2021
5G may be the latest buzz word in communications technology, but the question of reliability remains the same. Modern electronics must survive temperature, humidity, impact, force, vibration and...
May 20, 2021
Strain gauge sensors have been around since 1938, when Cal Tech student Edward Simmons invented one to help Dr. Donald S. Clark, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, achieve more...
April 27, 2021
Robots are no longer confined to factory floor work cells with hand-coded, repetitive, painstaking tasks.
Robots of today are now used for increasingly open-ended assignments such as “...
April 23, 2021
We never imagined in VPG that there would be a need for our strain gages, temperature sensors and Data Acquisition System (DAS) to help find a solution for ending a pandemic.
A lot of...
April 6, 2021
Noise Control In Strain Gauge Measurements.
We are all familiar with noise in everyday life. It can make conversation difficult – perhaps you are in a modern restaurant without soft...
March 15, 2021
"In the last decades, dam safety has become more prominent. There has been a greater realization that spillway gate installations are part of the dam system, and need to be reliable so the dam...
March 14, 2021
There is some conflict about the quote of the title, hence the “not” in brackets, but it depends how you define data. For me (and engineers in general) data is that which can be shown to...
March 9, 2021
Everyone can relate to the issue of forgetting why you went into a room. It’s frustrating, often requiring a retrace of steps or a repeat of the previous task to trigger your memory. Often...
March 4, 2021
Vishay Measurements Group (UK) Ltd are the UK based subsidiary of Vishay Precision Group based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
From this location, we offer complete Sales and Technical Support...
February 17, 2021
New materials, new measurement challenges?
There is a conception within engineering that strain gauges are some kind of art practised by magicians in dark laboratories using alchemy. This seems...
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