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Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT     Successful implementation of additive manufacturing into any business requires clear business objectives. This webinar will discuss key aspects of additive cost modeling and performance benefits when considering metal additive manufacturing. Join Gregg Wilson, Principal Engineer from GE Additive’s engineering consulting group called AddWorks as…

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) last night at Automatica 2018 honored the two winners of the 2018 Engelberger Robotics Awards. Known as the “Nobel Prize” of robotics, this year’s awards went to Gudrun Litzenberger, General Secretary of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), and Esben Østergaard, CTO and co-founder of Universal Robots. We’ll soon be…

A spirometer is used to make the most common of pulmonary function tests (PFTs). It is a respiratory flowmeter that determines how well the lungs are working by measuring the amount of inhaled air, amount of exhaled air and how quickly it is exhaled. Used to diagnose asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other […]

GAM, a leading manufacturer of precision gear reducers, servo couplings, and linear mounting kits, announces the release of its new EPR and PER Series Right Angle Bevel Planetary Gearboxes. These new gearboxes provide all the advantages of GAM’s popular EPL and PE inline planetary gearboxes in a right-angle configuration. “The EPL inline is considered the […]

Everyone wants to save money on manufactured parts. It sounds simple, but one of the easiest ways to reduce price-per-piece cost in injection molding is by increasing part quantity. That is because the initial upfront cost to design and machine the mold amortizes over more parts. At Protolabs, for example, up to 25,000 parts or…

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…

Will high test instrument costs keep the next Steve Wozniak out of the tech business? Back in the heyday of personal computing, it was possible to do state-of-the-art work without making a big investment in test equipment. To see what I mean, consider the development of the first 5.25-in. floppy disk drive for the Apple…

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 —…

Advantech’s IIoT iAutomation Group announces the launch of WebAccess/SCADA 8.3 with improved performance and user satisfaction with the introduction of the new WebAccess Dashboard 2.0, a new mobile app, and other added features including improved MQTT protocol and driver support. The new WebAccess/Dashboard 2.0 allows users to access external data via a third-party database or…