Once relegated to test labs and engineering courses, electromagnetic forces have lately captured the imagination of the masses. Some of this is due to a kind of apocalyptic fascination—the idea of a ...

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Linux math library (libm.so glibc), a fundamental component of Red Hat In ...

Seven years after a 9.1-magnitude earthquake and the resulting tsunami triggered the catastrophic disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the people, towns and villages in the ...

Battery-powered applications, which have become indispensable over the last decade, require a certain level of protection to ensure safe use. This safety is provided by the battery management system ...

Automotive stakeholders such as OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers must observe functional safety (FuSa) as a practice across their organization. Easier said than done, implementing ISO 26262 compliant FuSa ...

Increasingly stringent safety regulations (for example, the emerging IEC 61508 standard) are driving expansion in the market for machine safety products and technologies. As demand increases for ...

Functional safety is about ensuring that products operate safely and do so even when they go wrong. Here’s why you can’t choose to ignore it. The automotive industry has entered a period of rapid ...

To a machine designer, “stay safe” is not just a cheerful slogan or wishful thinking. Operator safety is a central design issue. The international standard, ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery – ...

In addition to renewing acquaintances and learning about the latest technical advances, attendees at the IEEE 2015 and 2016 EMC Symposia received USB memory sticks with presentations from previous ...

Designers and developers of medical devices are aware of the relevance and risks involved in single faults, which must be avoided in all states of operation. However, the dynamics of development, ...