THERE is no better way to ruin a perfectly good day than to make a mistake in the use of your air monitoring instrumentation. Industrial hygienists; military, industrial and public-sector hazmat teams ...

Energy harvesting is without doubt going to be one of the power management themes of 2009. Throughout the year we are going to be bombarded with new techniques to harness energy from all kinds of ...

Crowcon's new CheckBox IMH (Instrument Management Hub) automates the calibration and bump testing* of portable gas detectors, reducing operation time and so reducing costs. The station can test up to ...

Boeing undertook certification flight tests in Alice Springs, Australia earlier this month of a new "thrust bump" setting on the General Electric GE90-110/115 powerplant, using engines installed on an ...

Bumps are a key component in many advanced packages, but at nanoscale levels making sure all those bumps have a consistent height is an increasing challenge. Without co-planarity, surfaces may not ...

The shift to multi-die assemblies is forcing changes in how chips are tested and inspected in order to achieve sufficient yield ramp or respond more quickly to yield excursions.

Bump Testing: functional (bump) testing, a means of verifying by using a known concentration of test gas to demonstrate that an instrument's response to the test gas is within acceptable limits. To ...