This webinar will provide guidance to attendees on how to drive more engineering decisions using simulation tools. Today, there are lots of different options. You can provide automation tools to simulation analysts to improve their productivity or you could provide CAD-embedded simulation tools to engineers for early simulation feedback on a daily basis. What is…
How to use color vision sensors to prevent manufacturing mistakes
Mis-aligned parts, missing components or mislabeled items are costly mistakes in today’s manufacturing climate. Color vision sensors provide 100% inspection for applications which are difficult to solve using monochrome inspection methods. Learn how the VeriSens Color vision sensor has brought ease of use with powerful inspection tools to identify defective goods, misaligned and out-of-order products.…
Beyond Basics: Designing aluminum extrusion to meet product challenges
Extruded aluminum components and assemblies find ready application in a host of applications, from building products to automotive components, alternative energy, machinery, electronics and medical products. This webinar will review the attributes of extruded aluminum that make it extrusions so promising for product designers and engineers, and the “practicalities” of extrusion design. A number of mini case studies will…
What do you know about the eight additive manufacturing processes?
When it’s time to print your part, which additive manufacturing/3D printing (AM / 3DP) process will work the best for you? In this webinar, you will learn: How each AM/3DP process works The pros and cons of each of the present additive manufacturing/3D printing processes. Surface finish expectations and other dimensional information Who offers which…
Key considerations when switching to miniature connectors
Join us for this panel webinar, in which industry experts will provide insight on selecting, specifying and using miniature connectors safely and reliably in your system designs. Our panelists include David Ptacek, national sales manager and US product manager for Fischer Connectors’ MiniMax series; Steven Lassen, Products and Applications Manager, LEMO USA; Mike Higashikawa, Regional…
How to regain design freedom and source the perfect linear guide with Extruded Profile Guides
Linear guides are one of the most important components required for the development of automated or computer controlled equipment. 3D printers, CNC routers, and tabletop factories. Machines wouldn’t function without them. During the development phase, most design engineers will survey existing manufacturers for standard linear guide products to incorporate into their projects. Invariably, the designer…
Analog Mixed-Signal Design in FinFET Processes
While industry pundits have forecasted the end of analog design in the next leading edge process, the reality is that the practice is still going strong, and there’s no end in sight. Not only are teams still designing data converters, PLLs, filters, and other analog goodies in the latest processes (including FinFET), but design teams…
On Demand Webinar: 3D Printing: Multi-Materials and Vibrant Color
This on-demand webinar will be available from Feb. 24-27. Connex 3D Printing was the first technology to offer multi-material 3D printing. With the Objet500 Connex3, Stratasys launched another first: a color, multi-material 3D printer. Combining three base materials dramatically extends the possibilities — rich, vibrant colors and unprecedented material versatility. In this webinar, Jon Cobb,…
How to ensure your design is 3D printable
Programs like Magics, Rhinoceros 3D, and Spark can help you check out your CAD design for any issues that might not 3D print well. In this webinar, an engineer from each of these companies will go over a feature of their program that resolves a potential 3D printing problem. Watch this webinar to learn: The basics…
Outside-of-the-box solutions for coupling applications
Couplings are used in countless different applications, but sometimes an application requires a little outside-of-the-box thinking to get things working properly. This webinar will present three unique coupling applications with unusual problems and how they were resolved. This webinar will look at: How a coupling can handle an overload problem in a pumping application How…
Tips on designing for the Internet of Things
Bimba, TI, and Opto22 are heavily involved in developing products with and for the Internet of Things. In this webinar you will hear stories from the trenches on how they have approached the IoT and what they have learned in the process. You will learn: What value the IoT may or may not bring to…
7 basic valve questions to specify the correct valve
There are many factors to consider when specifying the correct valve for your application and every application is different. These conditions could be the media, temperature, compatibility, coil voltage, wattage, or explosion proof, even pressure ratings. All these considerations have an impact on specifying the correct valve to ensure millions of maintenance free cycles. This…
Why compressed air is so expensive and what to do about it
Compressed air is one of the least efficient ways to transmit energy to manufacturing machines. This webinar will discuss the high cost of compressed air, why it is typically inefficient, and what to do about it. The webinar will be discussing the complete system from the air compressors all the way to the end use.…
Solving the System-Level Design Riddle
In the last half of the 1990s EDA industry analysts began talking about the growing market for tools above the RTL handoff level. This new electronic systems level (ESL) tools market was supposedly going to explode and dramatically change the design landscape. Many companies were funded, but the market never really took off as forecasted.…
Robotic design: Frontiers in visual and tactile sensing
Speakers Goksel Dedeoglu of PercepTonic and Gerald Loeb of SynTouch LLC will share their insights on the engineering challenges of designing robots that process visual and tactile data. Join them for a discussion of the latest advances and what the future holds for robotic sensing. This webinar is sponsored by:
On Demand Webinar: How to easily improve quality using automated visual inspection
Mis-registered parts, out of tolerance parts or defective assemblies are costly mistakes in today’s manufacturing environments. Reducing scrap by catching deviations in the manufacturing process early are key to keeping profit margins high. Automated inspection using Vision Sensors provide 100% inspection. Learn how the VeriSens Vision sensors ease of use combined with powerful inspection tools catches detects…
Loctite® 4090™ Structural Instant Adhesive Hybrid — Combines Speed and Strength
Loctite® 4090™ is a new patented hybrid adhesive from Henkel Corporation. Loctite® 4090™ combines the bond strength of a structural epoxy with the speed of an instant adhesive. Join this webinar to learn more about the many unique benefits of Loctite® 4090™ and how this innovative hybrid adhesive can solve your design and assembly challenges. Attend this webinar…
3D Printing for Machine Design
Metals and plastics have long been used for machine parts. Their durability, strength, and reliability in machines that operate continuously for millions of cycles makes them the standard in automated machinery. However, for these same reasons, the use of 3D printed parts has been questioned and not widely adopted by manufacturers. This view should be…
Unlocking the Secrets to Designing Faster, Smarter, and Lighter
Lightweight Design can lead to reductions in cost, development time, material consumption, and more. With today’s advanced tools, lightweight concept generation is easier than ever. These tools allow design engineers and architects to generate and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily by creating a new geometry within your package space using the loads as…
Using Metrology Software to Capture Data for Reverse Engineering
Many companies who already use CAD to meet their Design needs and have a Portable CMM to meet their Inspection requirements often don’t get full value from their Reverse Engineering requirements as they often feel that a specialist acquisition or intermediary software will be required to complete the task. See how, with a little extra…
How to Solve Your Motion System Design in Less Time With Actuator Assemblies
The design and development of automated processing equipment can be a daunting and time consuming task. At the outset of every automation project there is an understanding of the work to be performed. The designer will identify the items which can be purchased, and the items which must be designed and fabricated. Even a simple guided motion…
When Failure Is Not An Option; How Rotary Encoders Solve Your Oil and Gas Positioning Problems
For your customers, life is simple: The rig has to work. In an industry where an hour of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, failure is not an option⎯or at least not an option that will keep your customers coming back. You need to build equipment they can depend on, and that means…
Friction Stir Welding: Consistently Enabling Stronger, More Efficient Structures
This webinar will demonstrate Friction Stir Welding (FSW) as an alternative to other welding and mechanical joining methods of extruded aluminum profiles. Until recently, FSW has been mostly used in aerospace structures. However, as the FSW technology became more widely known end use applications have grown. Today, one can fine FSW welded structures in many…
Inductive Non-Contact Position/Displacement Sensing: Technology-Application-Options
Inductive sensor technology is widely known for proximity sensing of conductive ‘targets’ in automated material handling applications. This webinar is a technical presentation of inductive ‘eddy current’ technology used for high precision, high resolution, position/displacement sensing where micron and submicron resolution is required. How ‘eddy current’ sensors work, the various circuits used, application concerns, and customizable…
A New Approach to Difficult Object Detection
Watch the webinar below. Detection of shiny, dark, curved, or irregular objects can be difficult for photoelectric sensors. Often designers and engineers face a compromise between the convenience of diffused sensors and the reliability of light barriers such as through beams and retro reflective sensors. This webinar will focus on how to make those choices…