FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PicoWeb™ Puts Panametrics Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge on WWW
September 22, 1999 -- Lightner Engineering is pleased to
announce that it has Web-enabled another instrument using it's PicoWeb™
server. Automated Inspection Systems (AIS)
needed a remote measuring capability for taking periodic material thickness readings using
a Panametrics Inc. hand-held, ultrasonic
non-destructive test (NDT) instrument, the Panametrics
26DL Plus Thickness Gauge. The 26DL Plus has an RS-232 serial port which allows
limited remote control and data logging from the instrument. Lightner Engineering as
able to quickly provide a basic Web page which could be
used to take thickness readings from the instrument using about 50 lines of
application-specific PicoWeb p-code and about 20 lines of HTML code. Another 20
lines of p-code, and a CGI-BIN Perl script running on a "Internet gateway" PC,
gave Automated Inspection System's customer full remote control and monitoring of the
Panametrics NDT instrument, including remote display of ultrasonic transducer waveform
data for quality control purposes, from any computer in the world with a Web browser and
Internet access.
This rapid-prototyping PicoWeb engineering effort has proved once again
the utility and power of the PicoWeb development system when it comes time to
Web-enable an existing test instrument. The PicoWeb server's low-cost and
small-size may make it the ideal engineering solution to quickly connect your
product to the 'Net.
For More Information Contact:
Lightner Engineering
8551 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, California 92037-3044
Tel: +1-858-551-4011
FAX: +1-858-551-0777
Internet: lightner@lightner.net
