- CCAT Hosts MTConnect Workshop

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) will host an MTConnect Workshop on Friday, Dec 7, 2012.   This is a great opportunity for company's in the Hartford area to meet directly with MTConnect experts and learn how MTConnect can help them improve their manufacturing operations by using data gathered from their shop floor equipment.   Anyone interested in attending can Register at www.etouches.com/MTConnect or contact Ed Marinko at 860-291-8832.

NASA Stennis Space Center Awards Sensor Development Contract to Lion Precision

 

St. Paul, MN USA, August 31, 2010
Lion Precision, a leading manufacturer of high-performance displacement sensors, was awarded a Cooperative Agreement with NASA’s Stennis Space Center to develop a smart sensor and the associated communication protocols to monitor valve position and wear. The eddy-current displacement sensors will monitor valves responsible for the flow of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in rocket engine test cells. Sensor measurements and sensor health information will be transmitted using MTConnect communication protocol. Development of the system will require the expansion of MTConnect to include new XML tags for sensor measurement and health parameters. Don Martin, president of Lion Precision, is the chairperson of the Sensors Working Group for MTConnect.....

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