February 2018 – Technology POC

Panel PC solutions from Blue Chip Technology

Posted on February 26, 2018 by blogger

Blue Chip Technology are one of the UK’s leading designers and producers of single board computer platforms and panel PCs. Blue Chip’s single board computer solutions will bring the power of the processor to your business.

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Blue Chip Technology is one of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of industrial computer platforms and panel PCs. With an outstanding portfolio Blue Chip Technology provide off-the-shelf products including COM boards, single board computers (SBCs), fanless embedded systems, rackmount computers, Panel PCs and digital signage hardware.
Blue Chip Technology have a track record of working with a range of industries including hospitals, assembly lines, rail networks and laboratories both in the UK and across the globe.

Single Board Computers and Panel PCs
Single board computers are entire computers built on a single circuit board. They are most commonly used for industrial purposes, often in situations where smaller, more power-efficient and reliable computers are needed.
A panel PC is a type of industrial computer. A display, usually an LCD (liquid crystal display) is integrated into the motherboard and electronics. Panel PCs range from lower cost types with no environmental sealing to the more expensive, heavy duty models which may be waterproof or even explosion proof. Panel PCs can also be custom designed and built to the requirements and budget of the customer.
The technical experts at Blue Chip Technology have designed and manufactured a wide range of display based solutions to suited to Human Machine Interface (HMI), SCADA, process control, factory automation, building control and home automation applications. The Alpha Panel PC range of 8.4 to 17 inch range of industrial all-in-one units – compact, highly integrated, network-ready devices with full I/O connectivity. The Alpha Panel PC range is IP65/NEMA4 rated and designed to be housed in a panel or enclosure creating a dust and waterproof barrier, an essential requirement for many industrial and commercial applications.

Custom Design
Blue Chip Technology also offer custom design products which are designed and manufactured in-house. As industry leading specialists Blue Chip Technology can either make minor changes to existing products to meet specific needs or can build the products from ground-up development.
Blue Chip excels in custom design because design and manufacture are done in house they are flexible enough to accommodate a small adaptation or bottom up design project. What it doesnt necessarily mean is ramping up extra costs Blue Chip Technology regard many customisation services as integral to the product offering and are happy to provide free of charge.
For more information on the Blue Chip Technology products and services please call today to speak to one of our specialists 01829 772 000.

Short Process Of Powder Metallurgy Technology

Posted on February 24, 2018 by blogger

Technology of powder metallurgy parts near net shape powder metallurgy workers has long been one focus of the study subjects. Over the past decade, the study of new technology, new technology after another. These new technologies, the emergence of new technology to solve the short-flow low-cost powder metallurgy materials forming problems, greatly contributed to the rapid development of powder metallurgy parts. Currently, powder metallurgy parts manufacturing technology development is to increase density, reduce costs and complexity of high-precision near net shape parts mouth.
In 2000, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute has developed one of these are known as the flow temperature and pressure of the short process of low-cost near-net shape technology. The temperature and pressure process technology-based and combines the advantages of metal injection molding technology. By improving the mobility of mixed powders, filling ability and formability, can 😯 ~ 130 , in the traditional press on the precision forming of parts with complex geometries, such as the vertical direction with a groove with the suppression of the hole and threaded hole and other parts. 2 without the need for subsequent machining. Flow temperature and pressure forming technology not only to overcome the traditional powder metallurgy forming a complex geometry in the gaps, but also avoid the high cost of metal injection molding technology is a great potential of new technology, has a very broad application prospects.
Flow temperature and pressure forming a new type of powder metallurgy parts, as near net shape technology, its main features can be summarized as follows: 1) forming parts with complex geometry flow using temperature and pressure can be directly formed with grooves perpendicular to the direction of repression, holes and screw holes and other parts, while the use of the shape of the cold manufacture of such parts is very difficult or even impossible, manganese powder the general need to complete the subsequent machining, CNC press to realize that the use of complex and precise movements , can only produce a relatively simple type of parts. Fraunhofer researchers used a special mold, the T-hole, hole, L-shaped cavity mold hole has been studied and successfully prepared a T-shaped parts. The results show that the well-mixed powder flow is sufficient to avoid cracks in the corner. Fraunhofer researchers have also used the shape with a slight taper to successfully direct the punch forming a deep blind hole parts, blind holes and wall thickness of the high rate of up to 3 to 7, the changes in wall thickness in the range of 1 ~ 3mm . Flow temperature and pressure can also be precision ground forming threaded holes. With the external thread of the bolt with a core mold after compaction, it will tighten the bolt out from the semi-finished products, and then sintering can be obtained thread. According to shrinkage by selecting the appropriate core diameter of the bolt thread can be suppressed without the required 2 machining.
2) The compacts of high density, density, temperature and pressure than the uniform flow of powder loading density as high, so after the semi-finished products by the temperature and pressure can reach very high density values. In addition to density, the powder flowability as well, forming parts and more uniform density. Or use a simple model red (no auxiliary floating red multi-axis model) can be multi-step forming of powder metallurgy parts.
3) the adaptability of materials Fraunhofer researchers conducted a variety of metal powder flow of warm compaction studies, have made a more significant results, including low alloy steel powder (Distolay AE), stainless steel 316L powder, silicon powder pure Ti powder and WC-Co hard metal powder. Flow temperature and pressure process in principle applicable to all the powder system, the only requirement is that the powder sintering must be good enough to eventually reach the required density and performance.
4) to simplify the process, reducing costs forming parts using conventional powder metallurgy method to suppress in the direction perpendicular to the grooves, cross holes and other shape, need to design very complex molds or 2 times after sintering machining to complete. Although injection molding technology in the shape of forming part of the complex and almost without any restrictions. However, due to large number of added binder, nickel powder in the heating process in part because of the influence of gravity to deform. Therefore, it often requires an additional more complicated and more expensive binder removal process, making the injection molding of high cost than conventional powder metallurgy technology, so the injection molding of parts may not be able to meet its design features to replace the conventional powder metallurgy parts to the application of injection molding technology has been somewhat restricted.
The flow temperature and pressure forming technology, either directly without the need for complex geometries 2 subsequent machining; the other hand, the flow temperature and pressure forming process, the use of a special binder and lubricant content is moderate, the configuration of the hybrid powder has a high viscosity and critical shear strength, the heating process does not occur in the deformation, which can be directly removed during sintering binder. Thus, the traditional powder forming process and injection molding process compared to current techniques for temperature and pressure forming of complex geometry parts, the only simplifies the production process, but also significantly reduces manufacturing costs.

Moems Device Technology

Posted on February 20, 2018 by blogger

Micro-electro-opto-mechanical system (MOEMS) is an emerging technology which has become one of most popular technology. It adopts MEMS of photonic system with internal micro-mechanical light modulator, micro-mechanical optical switches, IC and other components. The MOEMS technology features miniaturization, multiplicity and microelectronics and has a seamless integrating the optical components with electrical parts. In brief, MOEMS is further integration for system chip. As it is compared to large-scale opto-mechanical devices, MOEMS is smaller, lighter and faster (with higher resonant frequency), and can take mass production technology. When it is compared to waveguide mode, this kind of free space mode has the benefit of lower coupling loss and smaller crosstalk. Photonics and information technology changes directly contributed to the development of MOEMS. Nowadays, information technology develops rapidly and brings constant renewal in photonics. The demand for increasing data rate and more excellent performance of new generation device stimulates MOEMS and optical interconnect need.

MOEMS devices, according to their working principles, can be classified as interference, diffraction, transmission and reflection-type, and most of them adopt reflection-type devices. In past few years, MOEMS has achieved tremendous improvement. In recent years, the increasing high-speed communications and data transmission greatly stimulates the developing and research of MOEMS technology and related devices. Some MOEMS devices with low loss, low EMV sensitivity and reflective light with low crosstalk high data rate have been developed.

Besides VOA simple components, MOEMS technology also can be used in tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), optical modulators, tunable wavelength photo detector and other optical active devices, which optical Cross Connect to filters, optical switches, programmable wavelength optical add / drop multiplexer (OADM) and other optical active devices.

In the filed of information technology, the key problem in optical application commercial light source, besides single chip (like thermal radiation, LED, LD, VCSEL), the MOEMS light source with active devices is focused more attention. For instance, as for tunable VCSEL, the the emission wavelength can be changed by changing the length of micro-mechanical resonator to achieve high-performance WDM technology. The related integrated circuit is MC010.

g Cellular Technology Is Here

Posted on February 19, 2018 by blogger

G technology will change the way most high-bandwidth users access their phones. With 5G pushed over a VOIP-enabled device, people will experience a level of call volume and data transmission never experienced before.

As the customer becomes more and more aware of the mobile phone technology, he or she will look for a decent package all together, including all the advanced features a cellular phone can have. Hence the search for new technology is always the main motive of the leading cell phone giants to out innovate their competitors. Recently apple has produced shivers all around the electronic world by launching its new handset, the iphone.

The vast array of new technology being built into new cell phones is staggering. One hand held phone now contains more power than at least a 1000 lunar modules. Today you will hardly witness a cell phone without an mp3 player with huge storage memory and a camera. You can even use the new 5G cell technologies to hook your phone to your laptop for broadband Internet access. Even every latest set being launched by the cell phone companies have a mega pixel camera in it, which produces extraordinary digital image just like a specialized camera for photography.

What else can we expect now? The present cell phones have it all. Today phones have everything ranging from the smallest size, largest phone memory, speed dialing, video player, audio player, and camera and so on. Recently with the development of Pico nets and Bluetooth technology data sharing has become a child’s play.

Earlier with the infra red feature you can share data within a line of sight that means the two devices has to be aligned properly to transfer data, but in case of blue tooth you can transfer data even when you have the cell phone in your pocket up to a range of 50 meters.

But this is not the end, while it is just the beginning of a new era of cell phone market. In the near future the world will be witnessing the virgin technologies ruling the cell phone industry. With the emergence of cell phones which are similar to a PDA you can now have your whole office within the phone.

Cell phones will give tough competitions to laptop manufacturers and normal computer designers. Emerging in the future 5G cell phone technology will be the ability to harness unlimited call volumes and unlimited data transfers all with the latest mobile operating systems.

Thus one can say that with the current trends, the industry has a real bright future if it can handle the best technologies and can produce affordable handsets for its customers. Thus you will get all your desires unleashed in the near future when these smart phones take over the market.

Svc Technology Revolutionizes Video Conferencing

Posted on February 14, 2018 by blogger

A newly minted standard, called scalable video coding (SVC), enables video streaming at multiple resolutions, quality levels and bit rates. The ability to scale video performance based on the end point is achieved through this relatively new technology called H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) that not only compresses but also distributes the video stream.

The standard allows us to have layers of encoded video, and if we use intelligent devices, it can allow us do lots of other things as well. To understand the principle behind these intelligent devices, we need to look at how videoconferences usually work.

Today’s videoconferencing relies on fairly unintelligent devices at the edge, and intelligence in the core, which is also called a “mainframe” model. A multi-point conferencing unit receives streams of video from each participant, decodes them, combines them and re-encodes them.

The traditional approach of doing encoding and decoding in the core introduces delay. It also means that users all get the same data stream, rather than one suited to their bandwidth, window size and client. In short, transcoding in the cloud makes for lousy conversations.

The SVC architecture puts more intelligence at the edge and a specialized router in the core. In the new model, the router and each participant’s client work together. They tailor data transmission to each client’s demands. When a client shrinks the size of their video window, the router knows and as a result, sends fewer bits, less frames, or lower-quality video to that client without affecting everyone else. The router isn’t busy encoding, merging and decoding streams, but it knows about processing, window size and bandwidth, which it can adjust dynamically throughout the call.

The standard tells us how to decode. The method used to encode is a lot harder and is considered the secret sauce. The router is usually a 1RU, Linux-based quad-core computer that handles up to hundred-way conferences. It is usually sold as a subscription model for about $1,000 per HD port per year, which is cheaper than the traditionally capital-intensive spending around video conferencing. Video gateways that let “legacy” video conferencing hardware work with the new standard are also available in the market.

This technology allows us to get live, four-way web-based conferencing in which each participant may have different local settings from a high-definition video at 60 frames per second to a consumer-grade VGA connection to a notebook camera. And the best part is that a typical broadband connection will suffice for end users.