The future of work is in doubt. All you have to do is check the unemployment figures. Well, you need to really check the unemployment figures because the…
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Dr. Razvan Panaitescu, AMD PM MS, Siemens Industry, Inc. Converting print unit systems to gearless systems may be a new concept in the printing industry, but better accuracy…
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There has been some press recently around the announced 4th Industrial Revolution currently under way. From what I have read so far, this has been general marketing hype…
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The energy infrastructure of the United States is aging. Since the beginning of the 1900′s and Edison’s light bulb delivering reliable power has been a major industry. One…
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A lot of commentary about jobless recovery recently. It brings to mind many comments from politicians campaging for election. They are going to bring jobs back to America….
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It seems trite to say that Newton’s basic laws of motion still haven’t changed. A body in motion tends to stay in motion, except when it hits something…
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Cars guys will sometimes say that the worst thing you can do is start your car. This is because after sitting still for any length of time, at…
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The origination of the term “mechatronics” is credited to Tetsuro Mori, an engineer at the Japanese company Yaskawa, in 1969, who was working to develop an industrial robot….
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There is no doubt that additive processing will dramatically change the future of manufacturing. If you consider the original stereo lithography polymer proces, 3D printing, one example of…
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The future of work is in doubt. All you have to do is check the unemployment figures. Well, you need to really check the unemployment figures because the…
There has been some press recently around the announced 4th Industrial Revolution currently under way. From what I have read so far, this has been general marketing hype…
A lot of commentary about jobless recovery recently. It brings to mind many comments from politicians campaging for election. They are going to bring jobs back to America….
There is no doubt that additive processing will dramatically change the future of manufacturing. If you consider the original stereo lithography polymer proces, 3D printing, one example of…
One aspect of reliability is simplicity. Simple mathematics. If there are fewer parts, there are fewer things to go wrong. Yet the internal combustion engine, not to mention…
In the world of Industrial Controls, the traditional platform has been the PLC. This control was initially the by-product of decades of hard wired automation based on relay…
Maybe the real answer is volume. Comparing the size of the consumer electronics market to the industrial controls market including motion control there is still a huge disparity….
The KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid. Hopefully they still teach this in engineering school. It is the essence of good design. Reducing the complex to the most…
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