This webcast was originally broadcast on Thursday November, 3 2016 This one-hour webinar will review the attributes of aluminum and the extrusion process, and illustrate how they can be leveraged for effective design solutions. It will focus on the three design variables – alloys, part geometry, and fabrication – that make aluminum extrusions a problem solver for…
POSITAL precision magnetic encoders now available with CANopen communications interface
POSITAL’s IXARC high-precision magnetic absolute rotary encoders are now available with CANopen interfaces. These new interface option is in addition to the previously announced SSI, EtherNet/IP, EtherCat, Powerlink, Profbus DP and Profinet interfaces. Together, this range of interface choices makes the rugged and compact IXARC encoders one of the most versatile devices of its type […]
Caterpillar’s Erick Scarpone named SAE/AEM outstanding young engineer
Erick Scarpone, Manufacturing Engineer 3 with Caterpillar Inc. has received the SAE/AEM Outstanding Young Engineer award in 2016 for the off-highway and powerplant industry. The award recognizes industry…
JARP Industries completes acquisition of Ordered Motion Systems
JARP Industries, a manufacturer of custom hydraulic cylinders, has completed an asset purchase agreement of Ordered Motion Systems, Inc. (OMS), the Wausau, Wis.-based producer of large bore, telescopic cylinders….
Intel’s New Chips Focus on Automotive IoT
Intel has announced two new processor lines, the Atom E3900 series and Atom E3900 series, specifically to target the IoT as the PC market struggles. Engadget reported the announcement this morning. The Internet of Things is just expected to grow, and with it comes a shift in the industry expected to support an estimated 50…
6 reasons to use plastic spherical bearings
When starting work on a new project that requires motion control, one of the most important considerations is what bearings to use. It’s easy to fall back on what you’ve been using for years instead of rocking the boat with new ideas or concepts. You might be more inclined to stick with bulky, robust steel […]
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Low-cost ID vision sensors enable more accurate inspection
Teledyne DALSA has announced its new BOA Spot ID vision sensors; the latest in its series of low-cost and easy-to-integrate vision solutions for the factory floor. BOA Spot ID…
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Sprint Turns to Microwave, Satellite Backhaul for Densification, Savings
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint is increasingly combining traditional fiber backhaul with microwave and satellite solutions as it works to both densify its network and lower costs. The company on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Gilat Satellite Networks’ satellite-based cellular backhaul solution to extend LTE services to metro edge and rural areas in the United…
Loser! Should engineers learn to be more civil?
Leland Teschler Executive Editor [email protected] On Twitter @DW_LeeTeschler Recent events have gotten a lot of people concerned about personal attacks, name calling, and reputational smears. No, we’re not talking about the presidential election. Sadly, it is becoming almost as easy to find examples of bullying and defamation in scientific and engineering research as in politics.…
Injection molding grade filament for desktop 3D printers
Avante Technology, LLC, a developer of 3D printing materials, announced the release of FilaOne GRAY Advanced Composite Injection Molding Grade filament. It is a carbon nanotube reinforced composite for printing injection molding tools for short run production of parts using a range of common thermoplastics. “Toolmakers can print simple soft tooling in a day and […]
Smashing Metallic Cubes Toughens Them Up
Scientists at Rice University are smashing metallic micro-cubes to make them ultrastrong and tough by rearranging their nanostructures upon impact. The Rice team reported in Science this week that firing a tiny, nearly perfect cube of silver onto a hard target turns its single-crystal microstructure into a gradient-nano-grained (GNG) structure. The purpose of the experiment was to…
NASA’s Tool For Calculating Orbital Trajectories Now Aids In Spacecraft Design
A NASA-developed tool that private industry and other agency centers now use to plot a mission’s path to far-flung interplanetary destinations has gotten significantly more proficient and can now even reveal — sometimes in just a matter of minutes — the specifics of the spacecraft’s mission and elements of the system design. Jacob Englander and…
Plunging Solar Equipment Prices Fuel Trade Complaints
Use of solar power is soaring, but Europe’s biggest solar panel manufacturer, SolarWorld, took the surprise step last month of cutting 500 jobs from its workforce of 3,000. The reason? Global sales are on track for a record year but prices are plunging due to a glut of supply. That is encouraging the spread of…
Guide systems that turn corners
The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but some applications dictate moving in curved sections and around corners. When two or more axes are combined, as in a Cartesian or gantry system, a method of control called contouring can be used to create radii and round the corners of traditional rectilinear coordinates. […]
RIT purchasing first liquid metal 3D printing system from Vader Systems
Buffalo-based start-up’s pioneering metal manufacturing system will be installed in new AmPrint Center Rochester Institute of Technology will acquire the first liquid metal 3D-printing system from Vader Systems, a Buffalo-based company. It will be part of an array of high-tech equipment being used for research and product development through the New York state’s Additive Manufacturing […]
State opens AM center at RIT
Center for Advanced Technology will develop next-generation 3D-printing materials, equipment and devices that are key to regional and national manufacturing resurgence Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul joined state representatives, corporate partners and Rochester Institute of Technology leaders today in launching the Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing (AMPrint) Center, one of New York state’s newest Centers for […]
London Calling! UK Kiosks Will Replace Public Payphones, Offer Free Gigabit Internet.
Soon, Londoners will be able to access free WiFi, making The Old Smoke the second city (following New York earlier this year) to transform its old, abandoned payphones into high-speed Internet hotspots. The service, dubbed LinkUK, is the result of a partnership between communications services company, BT, municipal media company, Intersection (also the force behind…
Testbed for Sensor-to-the-Cloud Connectivity
With its “Smart Manufacturing Connectivity for Brownfield Sensors Testbed,” the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) improves the availability of data from sensor-to-the-cloud connectivity. For operators of existing manufacturing facilities,…
SAIC to Supply U.S. Military with Petroleum Products
SAIC is to supply chemicals, packaged petroleum and other products to the U.S. military under a contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The single award, indefinite-quantity contract for chemicals, packaged petroleum, oils, and lubricants has a five-year base period with one three-year option and one two-year option. The base contract value is $700 million, Science…
Scientists Produce First 3D-Printed Magnets
From a technological perspective, making a powerful magnet is no problem. Precisely controlling the shape of magnet’s magnetic field, however, has proven difficult — until now. Engineers at TU Wien have for the first time designed and produced magnets using a 3D printer. The method offers scientists newfound control over the size and shape of…
Man Accused In Hospital Computer Hack Wages Hunger Strike
The man who acknowledges he attacked the computer network at world-renowned Boston children’s hospital two years ago, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars, is unapologetic and now waging a hunger strike in prison as he awaits trial. Martin Gottesfeld claims the hospital hacking was to protest the treatment of a teenage patient caught up…
At Molecular Level, Picatinny Arsenal Seeks To Develop Versatile, Transparent Explosives
A research team at Picatinny Arsenal is working to produce “amorphous explosives” with nanotechnology to alter current military explosives as a way to create new, transparent explosives. This amorphous technology could lead to new types of fuzing and explosive applications. Moreover, the team’s approach could potentially apply to other types of weapons and create new…
NI Partners With IBM and SparkCognition to Advance the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
NI, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced today that SparkCognition is partnering with NI and IBM to collaborate on the Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Testbed. The goal of the collaboration is to deliver an unprecedented level of interoperability among operational technology and…
NASA’s Juno Mission Exits Safe Mode, Performs Trim Maneuver
Juno Mission Status Report NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter. Mission controllers commanded Juno to exit safe mode Monday, Oct. 24, with confirmation of safe mode exit received on the ground at…
Opto 22 announces Node-RED on groov IIoT application development appliance at IoT Solutions World Congress @IOTSWC
Industrial automation manufacturer and Internet of Things application toolset provider Opto 22 announces immediate availability of the Node-RED development environment running on the groov Box industrial appliance, significantly decreasing IIoT application development time and complexity. Node-RED makes it easier to prototype, develop, and deploy applications for connecting physical assets to cloud applications and IT systems. […]