Contents NEWS   5 Avnet and Molex celebrate 40 years in business    FEATURES Flow, level & control 


16 The criticality of selecting the right temperature device for your application


  20 How to maintain and troubleshoot valves  


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Test & measurement 24 Taking advantage of a compact PXI platform for mobile test and measurement applications 28 The hunt for dark matter


34 Accelerate your test capability and system productivity with new MEMS switches


40 EV safety: Simulating EVs attached to electric vehicle charging stations


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44 How can service companies keep ahead of the competition?


Pharmaceutical & medical


50 Making sense of medical GMP machine qualifications and validations


52 Differential compact drives: High gear reduction in a compact footprint


56 Enabling smaller and safer medical devices


Gas detection 60 Gas analysers: Extractive or in-situ? 62 Detecting harmful carbon monoxide gas


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Signal conditioning 70 Wireless technology: A winning formula


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