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Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT     In this webinar, Lisa Eitel and Miles Budimir of Design World explain trends that are slowly (and in some cases, quickly) changing the designs of motion systems. These include a growing tide of networked (IoT) systems; controls, drives, and other components employing more advanced…

Prophesee SA (formerly Chronocam) now sells its first commercial implementation of its event-based vision technology for machines. The Onboard reference system could help developers of vision-enabled industrial automation systems such as robots, inspection equipment, and monitoring and surveillance devices. It features a Prophesee-enabled VGA-resolution camera combined with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and can be quickly…

The HCSK Series from Stackpole is a surface mount metal element high current shunt with four terminals. Four terminal Kelvin sense resistors provide the most accurate sensing as it removes the effect of lead resistance in the sensing function. The HCSK2725 rated at 5W at an ambient temperature of 100C utilizes unique materials and a…

Brakes, clutches and torque limiters are now available from Mach III for shaft sizes of half-inch and smaller. The ten new products include: • A spring-engaged brake for power off applications • An air-engaged brake for stopping and holding applications • Five air-engaged clutch configurations for connect and disconnect applications • Three mechanical torque limiters […]

Download the Protolabs Ebook Call it large meets small. Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently turned to Protolabs’ digital manufacturing services to rapidly produce highly precise parts and components for the lab’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), which houses the largest laser facility in the world. The NIF is the “large” in this…

Our society needs new ideas and technologies to solve the various problems we face in everyday life. Here small startups play an important role – four enterprises point like it goes. Clean energy from an altitude of 500 m Johannes loves kites. The passionate kitesurfer also sails the skies in his work, and has big…

In a recent video I did with my esteemed colleague Paul Heney of Design World, I got the chance try out a BenQ PD2710QC computer monitor designed specifically for designers working in CAD, illustration, and animation. Most useful to design engineers is a CAD/CAM mode that renders better contrast on lines and shapes on technical…

Halt and catch fire: The perils of cheap PoE Dave Jeskey tells an interesting story about what happened when an LED lighting company operated a few of its products in a test chamber. The RJ45 plugs, used for making a connection to a Power over Ethernet cable, melted. The RJ45 plugs came from Sentinel Connector…

Mating screw applications that require secure attachments can rely on self-clinching locknuts, which self-lock threads to reduce loosening and can be removed repeatedly without affecting performance. By Michael J. Rossi, Marketing Services Supervisor, PennEngineering By all measures, the hardware specified to attach components is expected to perform reliably in service. But sometimes application-related factors —…

The connectivity brought by the industrial internet of things can lead to bad outcomes if security measures aren’t up to snuff. Here are a few key considerations for keeping machines safe from those with evil intentions. Joseph Zulick, MRO Electric and Supply Programmable logic controllers, also known as PLCs, initially were conceived in the late…