🔧 Industrial Instrumentation Weekly Digest
Week of: August 31, 2026 – September 7, 2026
Your weekly update on pressure measurement, industrial IoT, and process automation news.
📅 September 4, 2026
- What is the ATD Series? Compact, high-density, heavy-duty, thermoplastic connectors
📝 Inelco Hunter is pleased to confirm the availability of Amphenol Sine Systems’ ATD Series connectors, engineered for demanding, high‑reliability applications across multiple industries. The ATD Series
📰 Source: Instrumentation - New digital Structural Health Monitoring system from Kistler goes live in Winterthur
📝 The new digital Structural Health Monitoring system (SHM) from Kistler is now in live operation on a prestressed reinforced concrete rigid-frame bridge in Winterthur, Switzerland. First presented at I
📰 Source: Instrumentation - Less than a hair’s breadth: Why does low-force sensing matter in ultra-thin metal foil production?
📝 From EV batteries to solar cells, medical devices and aerospace components, everyday life is increasingly dependent on ultra-thin metal foils that feature in thousands of electrical and electronic dev
📰 Source: Instrumentation - TE Connectivity’s RayFlite RFHVE cables now at Mouser
📝 Mouser Electronics is now stocking the RayFlite RFHVE high-voltage power cables from TE Connectivity. The RayFlite RFHVE cables are flexible, highly conductive, and insulated to meet the demands of hi
📰 Source: Instrumentation - Chip Industry Week In Review
📝 2D Tunnel FET; in-memory photonic computing; India’s $13.4B Semicon 2.0; SEMICON Taiwan; PCIe 6/7 test; MediaTek deal; 300mm Si photonics; InP expansion; $75M to recycle rare earths; GF PDKs; Gain-Cel
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - FARO CREAFORM to Showcase Portable Metrology Solutions at IMTS
📝 FARO CREAFORM will showcase its latest portable metrology technologies at IMTS 2026 (Booth 134730), from September 14 to 19 in Chicago. Visitors can explore solutions designed to enhance inspection ef
📰 Source: Metrology News - Dragonfly 3D World 2027 Adds AI Segmentation and Advanced CT Measurement Tools
📝 Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used to inspect complex automotive components, including lightweight structures, castings and battery systems. As component geometries become more compli
📰 Source: Metrology News
📅 September 3, 2026
- Pre-aligned beam collimator kits for FSO communication systems
📝 Optical Surfaces has developed a novel approach for delivering modular large beam collimators – a key component for assembly and testing of Free Space Optical (FSO) communication systems. FSO communic
📰 Source: Instrumentation - Chell Instruments support Purdue Formula SAE team with pressure scanner technology
📝 World-leaders in gas measurement and control instrumentation, Chell Instruments, have donated their nanoDAQ-LTS-16 miniature pressure scanner and quick start cable to Purdue Formula SAE racing team. T
📰 Source: Instrumentation - ‘Joker Junior’ wins Pickering’s PickBot student challenge at Czech innovation fair
📝 Pickering Group has announced that Daniel Hubáček, a recent graduate of the local Třinec high school, has won the competition to build a PickBot robot, aimed at students and held as part of the Invent
📰 Source: Instrumentation - What are the hybrid connectors behind modern automation?
📝 Adopting automation in a warehouse or manufacturing plant relies on uninterrupted communication and power delivery. Without these assurances, operators can’t expect their systems to work productively
📰 Source: Instrumentation - Intelligent Engineering: From Optimization To AI
📝 A methodology for transforming engineering decisions from educated guesses into data-driven choices.
The post Intelligent Engineering: From Optimization To AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineeri
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - Protecting Mission-Critical Data Beyond The SoC: Why Inline Memory Encryption Needs Integrity
📝 Aerospace and government systems need confidentiality, authentication, and implementation resilience for off-chip memory.
The post Protecting Mission-Critical Data Beyond The SoC: Why Inline Memory En
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - Building Trust Into Physical AI Systems
📝 Security and safety are inseparable in the physical world.
The post Building Trust Into Physical AI Systems appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - Humanoid Compute, Security More Complex Than AVs
📝 Robots and autonomous vehicles are both edge devices, but a humanoid has wheels as well as fingers. Close interaction with humans raises the stakes.
The post Humanoid Compute, Security More Complex T
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - AI Is Forcing Data Centers To Rethink Trust
📝 Exploding compute demand is exposing new gaps across the hardware supply chain, from chip identity and firmware integrity to post-quantum readiness.
The post AI Is Forcing Data Centers To Rethink Trus
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - How Many Design Experiments Does A Machine Learning Predictor Actually Need?
📝 Required dataset size and achievable accuracy track how smooth the response is, not model size or number of design variables.
The post How Many Design Experiments Does A Machine Learning Predictor Ac
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - What Can Go Wrong In 800VDC AI Data Centers
📝 Sparks and fires caused by higher electrical currents can cause costly outages and put people in danger. Hot chips also cause problems.
The post What Can Go Wrong In 800VDC AI Data Centers appeared f
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - Continuing A Legacy Of Space Exploration: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
📝 Rad hard components help investigate dark energy, dark matter, and planets beyond our solar system.
The post Continuing A Legacy Of Space Exploration: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope appeared
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - AI, Vision and Robotics Converge at Advanced Vision & AI Conference
📝 The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has announced the speaker lineup and agenda for its Advanced Vision & AI Conference, September 23–24, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. Featuring experts
📰 Source: Metrology News - QuantumDiamonds Brings Contactless Current Imaging Closer to Inline Inspection
📝 QuantumDiamonds GmbH (QD) has demonstrated a novel method for imaging electrical current inside a semiconductor structure without making physical contact with it. The technique removes the constraint
📰 Source: Metrology News - Relativistic position verification with coherent states
📰 Source: Nature
📅 September 2, 2026
- How to achieve seamless digital retrofit for pneumatic control valves?
📝 Bürkert’s SideCONTROL series of electropneumatic positioners and controllers integrate with virtually any pneumatic control valve actuator to provide the advantages of digital communications. SideCONT
📰 Source: Instrumentation - Teledyne FLIR OEM selected for US Army DUTCH Award
📝 Teledyne FLIR OEM has been selected to support the U.S. Army’s Delivering Unmatched Thermal Capability Hastened (DUTCH) initiative, led by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Tec
📰 Source: Instrumentation - EBook – Accelerate Silicon Design for Physical AI (Part 1)
📝 A complete path from AI model, to trusted silicon, to deployable system.
The post EBook – Accelerate Silicon Design for Physical AI (Part 1) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
📰 Source: SemiEngineering - Why Surface Roughness Specifications Are Shifting from Ra to Sa
📝 Surface roughness directly impacts sealing performance, friction, wear, coating adhesion, fatigue life, and overall product quality. Yet many manufacturing specifications still rely on Ra, a parameter
📰 Source: Metrology News - SHINING 3D Introduces Wireless 3D Scanning and Tracking System
📝 SHINING 3D has introduced EinScan Trak, a 3D scanning and optical tracking system that combines large-area scanning with a detachable handheld laser scanner. The system is designed to allow users to c
📰 Source: Metrology News - Optical CMM Targets Toughest Precision Measurement Challenges
📝 Designed for manufacturers who can no longer afford uncertainty in measurement, the µCMM NEO combines non-contact coordinate metrology, automated measurement planning and sub-micron accuracy in a sing
📰 Source: Metrology News - Angstrom-Level Resolution Piezo Stage for AFM, Metrology, and Advanced Imaging
📝 PI (Physik Instrumente), a leader in piezo nanopositioning and air bearing technology, offers the P-733 XYZ piezo nanopositioning stage, delivering 0.1 nm (1 Å) positioning resolution for demanding ap
📰 Source: Metrology News - Altermagnetism in twisted van der Waals homostructures
📰 Source: Nature
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