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The article focuses on the measures set by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to protect employees working in extreme noise environments. It mentions that one of the available methods to achieve maximum protection from hazardous noise is dual protection using earplugs and earmuffs simultaneously but is only limited to mining operations and not for general industry purposes. It also notes on the significant use of fit-test systems suited for workers in extreme noise.

The article discusses emerging synthetic instruments (SI) and IVI driver solutions. The U.S. Department of Defense's Synthetic Instrument Working Group (SIWG) offered an original definition of SI in 2004 as elemental hardware and software components with standardized interfaces and measurements software which yield a smaller footprint and greater flexibility. The manner in which how an entire test system works is described. The article also explores several emerging standard software input/output (I/O) interfaces for SI.

The article offers four diverse data acquisition (DAQ) projects as examples of optimum solutions to complex test and measurement applications. Each system employs a wide range of measurements and satisfies several constraints. The U.S. Department of Energy has established a number of high-technology projects as part of an initiative to improve the capacity and reliability of the country's electricity grid including the development of a 138-kV Saturable Reactor type of fault current limiter (FCL) by SC Power Systems. C&H Technologies has developed an Aperture ADC on an M Module for use on a VXI carrier in the VXI test system of the customer experiencing long analysis time on multiple channels of digitized analog data.

Presents various products for water quality management in the U.S. as of July 2004. Features of the brass relief valve designed by Norman Noe Co. Inc.; Advantages of the FilmTec SW30XLE-400i element, manufactured by Dow Chemical Co., Liquid separations; Product offers of the DPD-1 ReagentStrip for Free Chlorine from Industrial Test Systems, Inc.

The article reports on the claim of designers of avionics test systems that the demand for these systems is steady despite the financial crisis in 2009 in the U.S. Bill Schuh of developer of software and hardware, Ballard Technology Inc., claims that commercial aviation customers still place orders. Ben Daniel, business director Avionics Group at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, says that the challenging economy increases the opportunity with technological innovations.

The author discusses the advantages of the advanced automated test systems implemented in the computer industry in the U.S. He examines how the industry focused on boosting automated test systems in parallel processing, high-speed data transfer as well as in the software-defined services which prompted the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to follow the trend. The author emphasizes that the rise of automated test systems will maximize the cost effectiveness of COTS-based hardware device.

The article offers news briefs related to company updates in the U.S. AWR Corp.'s Simulation Technology and Applied Research (STAAR) division has been given three grants for US government-sponsored research projects. Merrimac Industries Inc. has been awarded a patent for its Multi- Mix Microtechnology. TRaC's Bluetooth test system is now available.