Keyword: Machinery

White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Document cover
Modern Edge Computing Accelerates Smart Manufacturing Initiatives for Discrete Manufacturers

Want to enhance productivity and drive reliable, efficient operations with less cost and less risk? Learn how to overcome the challenges of...

Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The innovation can provide a wide range of damping forces, a linear damping function and/or an extended dynamic range of attenuation, providing broad flexibility in configuration size and functional applicability.
Feature Image
White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Document cover
Unlocking the Secrets of Right Angle Servo Worm Gearheads

Right angle servo worm gearheads are mechanical devices used in various applications to transmit power and motion at a right angle. They consist of a worm gear and a mating worm...

White Papers: Test & Measurement
Document cover
Tuned Mass Dampers Help FORTiS™ Encoders Achieve Class-Leading Vibration Resistance

Despite the advances made over more than a century and development of the modern high-quality, high-speed CNC machine tools available today, vibration can...

White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
Document cover
Smarter Machines Require Smarter Engineering and Strategy. Start Here.

Uncover the 5 smart machine innovations that create a foundation for improving machine intelligence, while offering the added benefit of reshaping your business models...

Special Reports: Motion Control
Document cover
Smart Factory/IIoT - September 2023

Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, robotics, connectivity and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Sensor...

Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A company from Denmark found a problem with its oil rig, where wind caused service loops to swing, become entangled and snag, resulting in downtime. The company solved the problem with a 33.5-meter e-loop from igus, the Germany-based manufacturer of high-performance plastics.
Feature Image
White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Document cover
Engineer’s Guide to Replacing Problematic Hydraulic Cylinders With High-force Electric Actuators

This eBook from Tolomatic examines how new, high-force electric linear actuators are capable of delivering the power of hydraulics in many...

INSIDER: Materials

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving...

Feature Image
Briefs: Motion Control
A catalytic reaction causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously morph into a three-dimensional gear.
Feature Image
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team of researchers has designed a new system of fluid-driven actuators that enable soft robots to achieve more complex motions. The researchers accomplished this by taking advantage of the very thing — viscosity — that had previously stymied the movement of such robots.
Feature Image
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Data Acquisition

A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer.

Feature Image
Quiz: Motion Control
Labor shortages have caused farmers and food manufacturers to increasingly utilize agricultural robots for farming. Take this quiz to learn more.
Feature Image
Blog: Propulsion
The all-terrain walking mech’s aim is to give humans the size and strength of giants. It does just that — times 50.
Feature Image
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Document cover
Unmanned Systems - February 2023

Unmanned helicopters take off...AI-powered machines tackle dangerous missions...autonomous robots become curious...rogue drones meet their match. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...

Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See what's new on the market, including a pressure transmitter, a new pressure instrument, new confocal controller, and more.
Feature Image
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
Feature Image
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A prototype version could be demonstrated on a large cargo lunar lander.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Motion Control

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Elisa Riedo and her team have discovered a fundamental friction law that is leading to a deeper understanding of energy...

Feature Image
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This below-the-hook device enables gentle crane placement to decrease the risk of property damage.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Energy

Electrical machines consume nearly half of all the electrical power generated worldwide, making them one of the top contributors to...

Feature Image
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The most common use of HDD systems is for industrial applications moving heavy masses on a continuous basis with low speed and high torque, and especially high starting torque for operations with frequent stops and starts.
Feature Image
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Read about the new products for October 2022, including rotary encoders, precision gearboxes, a brushless servo motor, and more.
Feature Image
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have taken inspiration from origami to create inflatable structures that can bend, twist, and move in complex, distinct ways from a single source of pressure.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Test & Measurement

Gears are sophisticated parts that play a vital role in cars, airplanes, construction and mining equipment, food processing, clock making, and more. And, companies are still trying to make them better...

Feature Image
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Roose’s Chocolate World, based in Belgium, is using an automated solution, “ChocoMatic,” that doesn’t break the bank.
Feature Image
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A novel turbine blade design and manufacturing approach developed by NASA provides a significant reduction in turbine blade resonant vibration.
Feature Image