Guest Blogs Time for Obama to End Timidity on US Tech Manufacturing Jobs George Leopold, Editor in Chief, EE Times Confidential1/27/2012 10 President Obama highlighted the connections among manufacturing, job creation, and innovation in his State of the Union address. Blogger George Leopold notes that the president ...
Engineering Materials Ford Recycles CES Plastic for Car Seats Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly1/27/2012 4 I thought it was pretty cool to find out that Ford Motor Company is converting recycled plastic water bottles and other plastic waste into car seats for the 2012 Ford Focus ...
News MCUs Cut Mechatronics Design Costs Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test1/27/2012 3 By using microcontrollers (MCUs) wisely, design engineers can cut costs and reduce complexity of mechatronic systems. Unfortunately, they often overlook the onboard capabilities of ...
Sherlock Ohms Shortcut Saves Time at Plant Steve Lindberg1/27/2012 3 I once worked at Eyedentify, a company that made retina scanners for biometric security. Manufacturing was starting to ramp up production, so a burning room was built to cook the ...
News CAE Drives Dutch High-Performance Auto Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software1/26/2012 16 What do you do when you need to make a more muscular, higher performing version of your top-of-the-line sports car without adding weight and drag to the equation?
Engineering Materials Composite Plane Repair Aided by Coating Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly1/26/2012 14 In addition to repairing composites in aircraft structures, figuring out whether they have been damaged in the first place was a top priority in a GAO report that critiqued the ...
Sherlock Ohms Battery Sparks Red-Hot Mystery Rob Spiegel, Senior Editor, Automation & Control1/26/2012 15 I was evaluating a new device in an industrial environment. To test it, I had a shop-made electronic test device which used a simple little alkaline 9V battery (size 522) for power. ...
Guest Blogs What Is Pulse Width Modulation? Kevin Craig, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Marquette University1/26/2012 9 As engineers, there are many components and devices we use every day that we treat as black boxes. We only are concerned about the inputs and outputs of the black box, and this is ...
News Surgical Robots Could Fix NASA Satellite Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly1/25/2012 24 A modified Da Vinci surgical robot is helping NASA study how robots can refuel and service space satellites, remotely controlled from Earth. The agency's Notional Robotic Servicing ...
Top 5 Roadblocks to Digital Factory of the Future 10/24/2011 18 The digital factory of the future faces challenges of cost, compatibility and programmability as PLCs and PACs lurch towards a fulling integrated production cycle.
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Product Lifecycle Management tools are taking product design to the next level. In this edition of Design News Radio, Dr. Michael Grieves, noted PLM author and professor at the Consortium of Universities for International Studies, joins Design News CAD editor Beth Stackpole to discuss how PLM is driving innovation and to offer insight from his books, Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking and Virtually Perfect: Driving Innovation and Lean Products through Product Lifecycle Management. Sponsored by Siemens PLM Software
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