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What Does Duotech Do? – Weekly Whiteboard
Duotech provides engineering, test planning, repair, and other technical services to the military and commercial users of electronic and electro-mechanical equipment. Services also extend to software development, machining, and fabrication. This weekly whiteboard...
AS9100 & ISO 9001 Certification Preparation Tips – Weekly Whiteboard
Prepare for your audit by being ready always! As Duotech is preparing for the next AS9100C audit, these are some tips that can serve you well in your company. Quality is important, and it is easy to maintain by being consistent. Preparing for an audit should only...
Coax to Waveguide Transitions and Antenna Measurements – Weekly Whiteboard
This video is about coax to waveguide transitions and antenna patter testing. Watch this week's Weekly Whiteboard by Daniel Rogers. Share this on your social networks. For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard.
IT Security in Embedded Systems
Modern integrated circuits (ICs) have brought tremendous amounts of processing power into very small and low-cost systems that are available to designers of automation, control, and monitoring systems. Powerful, low-power ARM processors are extremely inexpensive, and...
Waveguides – Weekly Whiteboard
This video is about the basic concept of waveguides for electromagnetic wave propagation. These structures allow for nearly lossless propagation of RF energy. Watch this week's Weekly Whiteboard on waveguides by Daniel Rogers. Share this on your social networks. For...
Engineering Education – Weekly Whiteboard
Daniel Rogers with this week's Weekly Whiteboard, "Engineering Education". Get involved with the engineering education process. How does the crossover between organizations, businesses, colleges, and the student, benefit all? As an industry professional, engineers...
Phase Noise – Weekly Whiteboard
Daniel Rogers starts the first in our new Weekly Whiteboard series, "Ask An Engineer". This video presents general concepts of phase noise measurement, and why most spectrum analyzers & signal analyzers do not provide this capability. Some of the concepts include...
Rapid Prototyping Part 2: Electronics
For every engineer, a time arrives when they are tasked with developing an idea into a working model. No technical professional works without having this experience, but the included requirements tend to come with a schedule that seems ambitious at best. What does the...
Rapid Prototyping Part 1: Bringing It Home
What is this “Rapid Prototyping” thing that has enveloped the engineering world and beyond? Should I bring these processes into my facility? What value does it add to my organization? With the advancement to additive manufacturing, am I missing out by not joining the...
Six Key Items to Consider When Selecting a Sensor
Automated test systems have to interact and measure things in the real world. Data on size, distance, strength, weight, pressure, temperature, color, surface finish, and more may be required to perform the test and analyze the results. Manufacturers use the terms...
What is a software engineer?
It has been said that software development is more art than engineering but, like most technically oriented professions, it is actually a bit of both. The art aspect is most obvious in today's sleek websites and colorful mobile apps but there is more subtle art behind...
Mechanical Design and Construction
Last time we discussed the reality that producing automated test solutions is a difficult task. One of the key areas of difficulty arises from the mechanical aspect of the setup. Mechanical elements of a test solution can include both precision components, such as...