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Application Examples by Industry
Communication / Radio- & Telecom
| Rugged Outdoor Communication In the TWRM (Two-Way Radio Market), a world wide, key player was seeking a very specific and compact rotary switching solution for a channel selector application. This switch was to be used on their new, professional transceiver line being launched for mobile communication services for very rugged environments. |
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| Elma captures Chinese Handheld Transceiver Market A leading Chinese two-way radio manufacturer was seeking an application specific compact channel selector switch for their latest transceiver product portfolio. The customer specified a torque requirement that had never been realized in such a small form factor. |
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| First Encoder with Push Button for Handheld Transceivers The innovative idea combining all volume control, channel setting and menu function in one operating device came up by one of the leading radio manufacturers. Using an Encoder with push button function is allowing the user to switch between these three main functions where the encoder itself is responsible for volume, channel and menu setting. |
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Defence / Aerospace / Maritime
| Backplane for ATR chassis Truck to decontaminate atomic, biological and chemical contamination by using environment friendly chemicals. The modular concept and high level of automation allows a fast decontamination of clothes, individuals and a wide range of equipment. |
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| Point Target stand-off Missile High precision stand-off weapon system designed to penetrate dense air-defences and neutralise high-value stationary and semi-stationary targets. |
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| Guided Missile Weapon System for ship self-defense The Guided Missile Weapon System is one of the world’s most modern ship self-defense weapons and has been specifically designed to provide exceptional protection for ships of all sizes. It is is a supersonic, light-weight, quick-reaction, fire-and-forget missile system designed to destroy anti-ship missiles as well as other threats. |
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| Bustronic Designs Backplanes for NASA’s Ranger Telerobotic Shuttle Experiment The University of Maryland’s Space Systems Laboratory needed highly customized backplanes for NASA’s Ranger Telerobotic Shuttle Experiment, a four-manipulator robot designed for operations in the Space Shuttle cargo bay. Each manipulator with multiple sensors, actuators and cameras allows operators in the shuttle or even on Earth to grab objects, make repairs, and perform other tasks. |
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| Fibre Optic FDDI Network Network to Network Bridge for interconnecting Ethernet & legacy Fibre Optic FDDI Networks. The unit is installed in a Cabinet with other equipment and a chilled-air system. |
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| Helicopter mounted test systems This is a series of projects beginning with AN/AES-1 Airborne Test Set (ATS). The same design was reused by ALMDS and then more recently COBRA. The system was helicopter mounted and was used for testing elements of the LIDAR Laser Mine Hunter System. |
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| Avionics Instrument Sensors Avionics Instrument Sensors development and testing for Joint Strike Fighter Program. System flight tested aboard a BAC111 (similar to a BOEING 707). |
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| Arm Reduction Verification In order to police the arms reduction program in Europe this unit was built by Lockheed Martin and installed in a C-130 aircraft. It is a fully custom 2 bay console which utilise's over 1400 rivets as part of the assembly construction. Project name was Samson. |
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Industrial Automation
| SAPHIR plus equipment The SAPHIR plus ultrasonic inspection system is a modular, scalable system having a wide span of applications. It is designed for testing diverse materials, such as, steel, aluminum, carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRF) and ceramics and can operate with conventional search units or phased transducer arrays. |
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| Ultrasound welding machines Our customer a leading manufacturer of ultrasound welding machines, was looking for a shapely and flexible case to pack the control unit and other functions of his machines. |
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| IP access nano GSM IP Access nano GSM products can enable GSM cellular services in a wide variety of applications, including hostile environments such as tunnels and airbourne environments. |
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Information Technology
| G-Box for smallest Panel PC Customer requested a flexible mini case to enclose his fully functional panel PC, which for example can be attached behind a monitor. |
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Railway Transportation
| Radio remote speed control for railway safety This unit’s receiver is tied to the speed control electronics on the locomotive of a freight train. In case the train’s engineer falls ill, or the train is taken over by a terrorist, the remote control unit allow someone standing near the tracks when the train goes by to override the operating controls on the train. |
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| System of control-command Train protection and operations control system for fully automatic, driverless operation Notably integrated in:
Metro Line in New York City, USA
Metro Line 9 in Barcelona, Spain |
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Scientific / Research
| Backplane for recording electronic data in a CDF Telescope? Microscope? Time machine? Combination of the three? Collider detectors are about the size of a small apartment building. Fermilab's two detectors-CDF (Colloder Detector at Fermilab) and DZero-are about four stories high, weighing some 5,000 tons (10 million pounds) each. |
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| Snychrotron Microscope VME64X Chassis to be located at various locations on the synchrotron ring. The computing power provided by these chassis is used to collate the results of numerous experiments performed along the ring. |
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Security / Safety / Surveillance
| Digital Video Surveillance over ATM The customer integrates the ELMA system into their solution for Digital Video Surveillance over ATM networks. With this solution the customer will equip the Underground and Express Train Network with over thousands of cameras across several hundred stations. |
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Test & Measurement Instruments
| Laser Tracking System Laser Tracking System. Laser Tracker Systems are mobile and portable coordinate measuring machines. They generally consist of the measuring unit and the control unit. A wholly portable coordinate measurement system allows measuring and inspecting on site all sizes of assembly parts as well as part-to-part assembly of large objects. |
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| Encoder for Measurement System One of the world’s leading suppliers of measurement technology specifically designing hardware and software systems for data acquisition and monitoring was seeking an encoder solution with push button function for man-machine interfacing a measurement device. |
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