Questions tagged [industrial]

Questions related to electronic circuit design in industrial environments where environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, vibration, noise are significant and require careful consideration above what would be needed in commercial settings. Includes questions on Industrial Grade parts.

Questions related to electronic circuit design in industrial environments where environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, vibration, noise are significant and require careful consideration above what would be needed in commercial settings. Includes questions on Industrial Grade parts.

Typically near equal to Grade parts, better than Consumer or Commercial Grade parts, but not as high quality as Military or Aerospace Grade parts, though this varies based on manufacturer. Military Grade parts are often mandated by law or government regulation/standards.

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Protecting PCBs from dust with Polyimid (Kapton) tape

Servers in a data center will run all day and night for three to eight years. Fans will blow an enormous amount of air into the electronic parts. Datacenters are not always dust-free, also small "accidents" can happen from construction works. Over…
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What is exactly meant by "hardware/software design productivity gap"?

I am new to this forum and I hope that this is the right one for my question. I cross-read some electrical engineering papers and often stumbled across the terms "Hardware Design Productivity Gap" and "Software Design Productivity Gap". To my…
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Parts which conduct electricity through a rotating shaft

What are those mechanisms called which are designed to conduct electric current through a rotary shaft? In the image below, of the interior of a large mixer, there is a set of brushes tracking rotating contacts. What is the name of this assembly of…
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How does industrial application interface a switch that is several meters away

I am wondering on how the industrial section deal with situations where a button is several meters away from the controller. Is there a device that specifically handle the debouncing/filtering/protection for the controller? I doubt that the PLC…
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