The U.S. military services are pressing ahead with efforts to deploy and update their family of standardized automatic test systems (ATS) despite the challenging budget environment. Last year, the ...

Today, most HVAC equipment is still being serviced and adjusted with traditional analog or manual test equipment. Field service technicians are still using, among other instruments, manifold gauges, ...

A version of this article also appeared in the May 2012 issue of Test & Measurement World. See the PDF. Test engineers have used open standard interfaces since1975, when the IEEE approved IEEE 488, ...

Pressed by tight budgets and program delays, the military is increasingly looking to upgrade and extend the life of its existing aircraft. Service life extension programs, such as one announced this ...

PXI, PXIe, and AXIe—from per-pin parametric measurement units (PMUs) to RF/microwave instruments—are making inroads in the semiconductor test space as vendors introduce modules suitable for IC test.

For more than six decades, artisans at Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD) have been at the forefront of repairing and employing automatic test equipment (ATE)to diagnose and test military equipment. That ...

It is a known fact that rendering sound with lifelike quality is possible only with extraordinary control of a loudspeaker’s motion. Bose engineers developed an innovative electromagnetic linear motor ...

Software is indispensable in the test-and-measurement process. You can write your own test programs in general-purpose languages like C#, Visual Basic, or Python, or you can buy software tailored to ...

Tobyhanna Army Depot has developed a new strategy to combat test equipment obsolescence by employing modern hardware and software technologies. The benefits of this include lower maintenance costs, ...

Sending satellites into space is usually a long and expensive process, so it is essential to ensure things work first time. Giles Case looks at some of the testing techniques used to ensure a high ...