Fraunhofer Center presents at NATO workshop

The workshop was part of an ongoing effort to help the military make sense of the massive amounts of data it collects from a variety of sources, including radar, acoustic, and other imaging sensors on satellites, aircraft and naval.

Fraunhofer CRCG has developed a number of interactive visualization technologies to help military personnel understand data. Attendees at the NATO workshop included both technologists and military personnel.

With funding from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, for example, engineers and scientists at Fraunhofer CRCG developed the Large Scale Visualization Environment (LSVE) to help sonar operators get a rapid understanding of submarine sonar data. It provides sonar operators a three-dimensional view of the data that they can literally hold in their hands, view from any angle, zoom in and out, and animate over time.

Astro-Med division allies
with Prisym Inc.

WEST WARWICK – QuickLabel Systems, a division of Astro-Med, Inc. that manufactures digital label-printing systems, recently announced that it has formed a strategic marketing alliance with Prisym Inc, part of the Prisym Group, a software company.

The deal will jointly promote Prisymedica software, used to design U.S. Food and Drug Administration-compliant labels for medical device and pharmaceutical products, with QuickLabel’s narrow web color printers, which is designed to allow in-house, on-demand label and package printing.

The use of QuickLabel printers and Prisymedica software in tandem will be highly attractive to medical device and pharmaceutical companies and to clinical trials programs, Astro-Med said.

These industries require on-demand packaging for rapid product turnaround and guaranteed package accuracy, secure against label error.

Medical device and pharmaceutical companies using QuickLabel color printers and Prisymedica software will be able to produce accurate, attractive packaging on demand with an in-house system, said Albert Ondis, chief executive officer of Astro-Med Inc. Such a system will be critical to companies seeking FDA validation for their labeling process, he said.