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Duotech’s New HAAS VF-4SS
[Watch Video Below] We have tools like this new HAAS VF-4SS to solve the technical requirements that come into Duotech Services. Whether its solving for obsolescence, prototyping for ourselves and customers, or producing parts for the end user, Duotech team can solve...
8 Reasons You Need To Invest in Industrial Automation
Industrial automation processes use control systems like computers or robots to monitor and handle processes and machines. Automation in the industrial workplace provides the advantages of improving productivity and quality while reducing errors and waste, increasing...
6 Areas of Interest in the Mechanical Engineering Field
As a mechanical engineer, you’re a problem solver. That is a pretty broad description. A Mechanical Engineer could be designing, testing, and developing some product that solves a problem. They could be trying to identify the best way to move heat away from, or toward...
RF Modules for the Repackaged Prototype Receiver Processor
[Watch Video Below] In this video we are rebuilding the RF modules to be used in the repackaged receiver processor of the Delta Radar. The existing receiver processor is being placed into a different custom enclosure for a specific customer requirement. In this video...
What is FMEA, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
[Watch Video Below] Lee asks Daniel and Silas about Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and discusses why such a process is important. Though implemented differently in various industries, an FMEA is a process to allow prioritization of effort during product...
Prototyping Build of Repacked Delta Radar Processor
[Watch Video Below] The exiting receiver processor is being repackaged into a different custom enclosure for a specific customer requirement. In this video you can see Silas and Matt beginning the first wiring harness fit and build as the prototype case is being...
Integration – One of the Biggest Engineer Challenges
[Watch Video Below] Daniel and Silas discuss the reality that integration is one of the biggest challenges faced in engineering. From bringing together multiple disciplines across the team, to using components from other suppliers, to moving a design from the...
Tubes Versus Transistors – Watts Relevant
[Watch Video Below] Moving from tubes to transistors may be attractive, but trade-offs exist. In a world that is seeing the move from GaAs to GaN & SiC, an entirely new world of possibilities exist for RF designers. Some realms still feel the dominance of tubes,...
Electronic Systems from Interfaces to Integration
Click for Video -Building and supporting an electronics design requires more than just designing drawing a schematic. This installment of Watts Relevant explores and enumerates the design considerations including electrical, mechanical, thermal, interface...
Electronics Hardware Project Types
Click for Video -What kind of project do you have on your hands? The project may be solving a single problem, or it may be encompassing many facets of a solution. Does it stand alone, or it is packaged into a larger scheme? It may even be a system that utilizes...
Integration Challenges
Click for Video - You have an idea for a design using components or modules from another manufacturer? What challenges are waiting for you just below the surface of the data sheet? Not all sales people know their product as well as engineers need to when using them....
Build Vs Buy
Click for Video - When do you make the trade-off of building a custom product versus buying something ready to use? Every design has limitations, but do commercial products provide what you need? When are your requirements so specific that only custom will do? Where...
