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White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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Ditch Those Spreadsheets: Here's 4 Ways You Can Create Better Design Worksheets
Most engineers begin their careers using Excel to perform quick calculations and document their design thinking. But as projects grow in complexity, Excel's...

White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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How New Angular Positioning Sensor Technology Opens A Broad Range of New Applications
The EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 represents a new set of rules and standards for batteries and waste battery management within the European Union. It is...

Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
Industrial robots are playing a continually increasing role in manufacturing worldwide. It’s therefore important that we in the tech industries have a good understanding of what they are, what they do, and what they can do. How much do you know about industrial robotics? Test your knowledge with this quiz.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Test & Measurement - December 2024
From space satellites to the factory floor to medical labs, innovative test technologies are enabling major performance, quality, and cost improvements. Read about these and other applications in a new report...

Articles: AR/AI
As technology advances, so do we as skilled professionals in the automation industry. Much like artificial intelligence, we continuously learn and adapt to enhance our overall performance. AI advancement and straightforward learning algorithms have transformed how we implement servo systems. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Over the past year, the DoD has awarded funding to hypersonics research led by University of Central Florida Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Kareem Ahmed to support the advancements he’s making in the technology. The support is a testament to the progress UCF has made in the field. Read on to learn more about these advances.
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White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Mitigating Risks in Medical Device Manufacturing
Discover the essential strategies to navigate the complexities of medical device development. This insightful paper explores the technical, regulatory, and financial risks that can derail...

White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Discover the High-Precision Tire Inspection with AI-Powered Anomaly Detection from SICK
The SICK Inspector83x is a game-changer in tire inspection, offering high-precision anomaly detection through advanced AI algorithms. This powerful 2D...

Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Air-bearings and air bearing motion stages utilize a cushion of air to eliminate mechanical contact, thereby effectively mitigating common problems associated with traditional bearings such as friction, wear, vibration, hysteresis effects, and particle generation. Read on to learn more about their powers.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Aerospace Manufacturing - September 2024
In‐space manufacturing of self‐replicating machines…how freeform injection molding lowers weight and cost…overcoming challenges in composite manufacturing. Read about these and other advances in...

INSIDER: Design
Inventors and researchers have been developing robots for almost 70 years. To date, all the machines they have built have had one thing in common: they are powered by motors. Even...
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA engineers partnered with digital manufacturer Protolabs for a generative design experiment at the recent PowerSource Global Summit, a technology conference held in Orlando. Read on to learn more about the space-ready parts that came out of it.
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White Papers: Motion Control
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Explore the Advantages of Integrated Electric Linear Actuator Designs
Both traditional and integrated electric actuator technologies offer their own performance, reliability and efficiency advantages. Machine designers building systems in...

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from...
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Articles: Physical Sciences
Have you ever gazed at the vastness of the stars and wondered what else your CNC machine can create? Greg Green had the opportunity to find out when he joined the staff at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Waimea, Hawaii. Read on to find out what happened.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Learn about the Force Control Model LC, a form of closed loop positioning control. It reads the machine position on each stop and adjusts, in real time, where to signal the stop for the next part/cycle. Read on.
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White Papers: Test & Measurement
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Your Partner in Top-Quality EV Battery and System Solutions
At TÜV SÜD, we are dedicated to delivering the highest quality and performance in electric vehicle (EV) batteries and systems. We understand the importance of safety and reliability,...

INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In January, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Program Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to...
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
See the new products, including ABB Robotics' expanded SCARA robot portfolio, Bodine's gearmotors, the C6675 control cabinet Industrial PC from Beckhoff, and KEB America's DL4 series of brushless servo motors.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A technique enables manufacturing of minuscule robots by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way.
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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.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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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: Motion Control
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.
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INSIDER: Design
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...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A catalytic reaction causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously morph into a three-dimensional gear.
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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.
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Articles: Motion Control
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer.
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