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The Materials & Hardware Making 3DP Mass Customization Possible
Live Date: June 15, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
The promise of mass customization goes back three or four decades. The essential goal is to use mass-production methods to make individual, customized products. This Holy Grail goal has become a reality with 3D printing production methods. The tools that unlock these possibilities come from newly developed materials and advances in 3D printing hardware.
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Reducing Noise and Vibrations in Vehicles
Live Date: June 6, 2022
Duration: 30 minutes
In this webinar, you’ll learn how bearings made of engineered composite plastic materials can help reduce noise inside vehicles – and why that’s important. You will hear from the North American product manager and the automotive industry specialist from Igus GmbH.
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How to Coordinate Cobots for Efficient Automation
Live Date: May 19, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Manufacturers are utilizing an increasing number of robots on the manufacturing line, advancing automation and increasing production. But tracking the movements and conditions of multiple machines can be tricky. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use advanced robotics platforms designed to coordinate machines into an effective team and ensure your robot army operates efficiently and in good condition.
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Motion Insights: Understanding Motor Constant (Km), the Key to High Torque & Low Temperature Rise
Live Date: May 12, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Motion systems are often tasked with the impossible: Delivering high power without any temperature rise. The solution is always a compromise, typically using more power-efficient components while allowing some temperature rise — but not enough to cause thermal expansion, which can degrade pointing/positioning accuracy. Rising temperatures create additional design, performance and even safety issues (e.g., in surgical robots). So…what’s the best way to limit temperature rise? All questions will be answered in this webinar and Q&A session covering the single most important specification for motor selection: Motor Constant (Km).
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Misperception Addressed: How to Achieve Class-A Surface Quality with Plastic Powder Bed Fusion
Live Date: May 5, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Join us as we discuss how digitally applied textures and post-processing can elevate plastic powder bed fusion parts to Class-A surface quality – and rival or beat the finish of injection molding.
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Cobots: Easing Connectivity to Equipment and Controls
Live Date: April 14, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Join Michael Phillips of Universal Robots as he explores how collaborative robots make connecting to existing systems easy. This presentation will cover TCP/IP Ethernet features such as FTP server, Dashboard Server, and Socket Communications. See for yourself how companies are increasing productivity by deploying cobots to work with existing connected equipment in their facility.
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How to 3D Print Your Way Out of the Supply Chain Crisis
Live Date: March 30, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Pandemic- and war-related logistics problems have snarled supply chains worldwide, leaving manufacturers desperate to get the parts they need to keep production lines running in the face of soaring demand. Luckily, there is a solution that can provide just-in-time inventory close at hand: 3D printing. In this webinar, you'll learn why this might just be additive manufacturing's watershed moment and how you can harness 3D printing to solve your supply chain problems today.
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Tiny & Mighty Motors
Live Date: February 24, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Small motors and motion control devices are in demand in several industries, from medical to aerospace where size and weight are critical. The size of these components is getting pushed to the edge of what’s physically possible. This webinar will explore how the limits of size and weight are getting pushed. We’ll look at what that means to those who seek smaller, lighter devices. The webinar will also look at the future of miniaturization and how emerging technology is affecting individual industries.
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Machine Tending with Collaborative Robots: From Simple to Sophisticated
Live Date: February 17, 2022
Duration: 60 minutes
Machine tending – loading and unloading machines – used to be a manual chore but is now the single largest area for robotics applications. Join UR’s Joe Campbell, a 40-year veteran of the robotics industry, to see how compact, collaborative robots (cobots) improve machine tending speed and accuracy while reducing costs and risk of injury. Applications include CNC mills, lathes, drills, press brakes, laser & plasma cutters, 3D printers, assembly machines, dial tables, and more.
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How to Get Your Digital Transformation Right
Live Date: December 9, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
This webinar is designed to get manufacturers on the right track. We’ll walk you through the planning for digital transformation. Show how you can organize implementation so the first phase pays for the next? Our presenter will explain how to get the right balance between cloud tools and edge computing. We’ll look at how to combine digital tools so the manufacturing system has the flexibility to move on a dime? And we’ll keep the overall goal in mind: using digital tools to speed time-to-market and better serve customers.
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Exploring the Inner Worlds of Linear Bearings
Live Date: November 16, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
This webinar will explore how linear and telescoping bearings are used and what to consider when optimizing your motion system for design, function and durability. You will learn the characteristics of different types of linear bearings and slides, trade-offs involved in the different types in terms of performance, load, cost, durability, and how to choose the optimal bearing or slide for a given application.
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Motors and Motion for Medical Devices
Live Date: November 11, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
In this webinar, we will discuss the role of precision motion in medical and life science devices. We will focus on quote engineering teams need to know about technology in order to best leverage their specialties. Learn how to effectively specify key components – motors, drives, controllers, gearboxes, feedback – to optimize performance, key manufacturing and testing techniques for medical devices, ISO-1345 and why it matters.
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How to Tackle your First Automation Project
Live Date: November 2, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
There are many reasons to automate: labor savings, product quality and improved efficiency to name a few. So if you know why to automate, but not how, then this webinar is for you. It will guide you on what steps to take to tackle your first automation project with a collaborative robot. (Spoiler alert: it’s easier than you think!)
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The Role of Miniaturization in Space and Defense Applications
Live Date: October 21, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Space development has shifted to miniaturized electronics, sensors, even electromechanical motion hardware. The benefits of miniaturization are not limited to space. Unmanned aerial vehicles and even ground-based vehicles are benefiting from tiny technologies. Discover the latest techniques for miniaturization, key use cases, and how to apply them to your own designs.
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All In With Additive Manufacturing: Consumer Goods Design & Production
Live Date: October 19, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
When you hear about businesses using 3D printing — additive manufacturing — as a production technology, it’s typically a story about how they transformed their traditional manufacturing methods. But what if you started out building your business around this technology? That’s what long-time product development and integrator Eric Folsom has done at footwear brand HILOS. In this webinar, he and HP’s Liz Stortstrom discuss what they see as extraordinary benefits of this and other projects.
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How to Ease T&M integration with the Popular Python Open-Source Scripting Language
Live Date: September 30, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Test & Measurement (T&M) engineers should have the flexibility to integrate their test & measurement hardware and software using the programming/scripting language you prefer. Now, they do. This webinar will show you how Python, the dominant open-source language, can ease hardware and software integration with native Python drivers and products from leading solution provider NI.
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Discover What’s New in Packaging 4.0
Live Date: September 23, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Discover what Smart Packaging is and how it will improve your products and production. Learn how Smart Packaging adds value to consumer-packaged goods. We’ll cover trending applications that cut food waste and improve product security along the supply chain. We’ll look at track & trace advances that deliver product authentication. We’ll see how packaging helps with patient compliance for pharmaceutical products and show the changing role of packaging in marketing and product safety. You’ll get to see these smart packing technologies in action.
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3D Printing Advances Medical: Devices, Materials, and Emerging Applications
Live Date: September 2, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
3D printing is now essential in healthcare. From hearing aids and customized prosthetics to face shields and devices, 3D printing has advanced countless medical applications. The pandemic proved that 3D printing is critical in medical treatment. The technology has accelerated the development of medical devices while enabling the customization of products for patients. This webinar will dig into the 3D printing technologies and materials that have taken hold in medicine. We’ll look at the range of current and emerging medical applications that are possible only through 3D printing.
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Designing Autonomous Vehicles? Success Depends on Sensors, Components, and More
Live Date: August 31, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Sensors and software are vital components for enabling autonomous passenger and commercial vehicles. Successful systems must be well suited for automation tasks that require high precision movements and feedback to controllers that utilize encoders, drive motor feedback, and location positioning. Further, sensor components continue to play an expanding role in autonomous vehicles, including current sensors, switches, magnetic positioning devices, interface ICs, regulators, stepper motors, and even photonics. This webinar will examine essential enabling technologies, including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), sensing and mapping hardware and software, embedded controls hardware and software, and other electronics and architecture.
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Discover New Tech for Lightweighting Parts with 3D Printing and Generative Design
Live Date: August 26, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Generative Design is an exciting advancement in CAD and simulation technology allowing designers to rapidly generate multiple solutions to well defined problems. Many are aware of its promise, but few know how to apply it to improve the everyday parts they design. This webinar, led by Formlabs Product Marketing Lead Jennifer Milne, will give you the confidence to apply it. She’ll present a step-by-step tutorial of the company’s solution, Fusion 360; a case study of a successful wheelchair bracket application; and reasons you might find additional, significant weight and performance improvements by adding 3D printing to the mix.
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How To Incorporate Conformal Coating Into Your Manufacturing Process
Live Date: August 19, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
How do you implement conformal coatings into the manufacturing process effectively and reliably? How does your NPD/NPI team turn something that experts consider “as much art as science” into a process your DFM and Ops team consider repeatable and production ready? Join us as we walk you through the process flow for conformal coating, so that you can walk away with critical knowledge about pertinent manufacturing issues, curing and polymerization processes, cleaning and surface preparation, post coating processes, and more.
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Focus on Fundamentals: Collaborative Robots - Technology, Building a Robot Cell, and Advanced Programming
Live Date: August 3, 4, 5, 2021
Duration: 3 Day Webinar Series - 60 min each
Known for their low cost and easy installation, collaborative robots have seen explosive growth in the last 10 years, and are projected to continue the same trajectory across every manufacturing industry. On Day 1 of this three-day Focus on Fundamentals series, you will learn about the technology behind collaborative robots, what makes them safe and easy to operate, and how to execute a simple pick-and-place operation. On Day 2, you’ll learn how to design a collaborative robot cell for deployment, including which cobot end-of-arm tools are right for the application, and the importance of understanding reach and payload. Day 3 of the series puts it all together to show fully deployed, real-world cobot cells in action.
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How Collaborative Robots and Humans Working Together is the Future
Live Date: July 22, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Manufacturing is suffering from a nationwide skilled labour shortage. Every industry and every company is facing the challenge of attracting and retaining people who want to work in manufacturing. Join us to understand how collaborative robots can help your company attract and retain your next generation of workers.
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Prototyping Update: How, When and Where to Use 3D Printing Together with Injection Molding
Live Date: July 21, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Product development professionals who work with prototyping and readying those prototypes for production suffer from the misconception that additive manufacturing (3D printing) and injection molding are competing technologies. In fact, the two technologies, can be used in tandem. The benefits of using both – instead of choosing one – can help your team attain unmatched benefits in several areas: material usage, rapid prototyping, faster production, cost-effectiveness, and the manufacture of challenging part geometries. This webinar will help you understand how to use each method to its greatest advantage; register now!
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3 Simple Steps to Ensure Your Design Uses the Right Connectors and Cables
Live Date: July 15, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
In today’s world of complex and high-speed data devices in communications, automotive harnesses, and industrial equipment networking design, the connectors and cables often determine the overall system performance. But how does an engineer or technician select the correct terminal and connecting hardware for specific environments?
This webinar will address what factors you need to consider when selecting connectors and cables to optimize system design in high-speed communication, autonomous automotive, and modern industrial applications.
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How to Kickstart Linear Motion Innovation and Benefits in Five Critical Areas
Live Date: June 16, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Calling all mechanical engineers, design engineers, mechanical engineering directors, VP’s and Managers: If you're struggling to reinvigorate your inspiration for building better machines, machine tools, medical equipment, 3D printing applications, and whatever your next linear motion automation project involves…this new webinar is for you.
When you join us, you'll get new hands-on tips for working with the latest linear guidance and measurement technology. You'll learn how to streamline your next machine design and reduce complexity with the single-rail Advanced Measuring System (AMS).
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Exploring Sensors in HVACR Systems
Live Date: June 10, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Sensors are an integral part of most heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) systems — helping to not only maintain a comfortable indoor climate but also to enable the HVACR system to perform properly. From the ventilation system to the cooling, heating and refrigeration equipment within a facility, the sensor technologies help reduce downtime, improve productivity, and lower maintenance costs while also improving efficiencies and reducing operating costs. In this webinar, you will learn how sensors and HVACR systems are evolving to meet the industry needs for much finer control and improved performance and efficiency. You will also discover the sensor devices that are designed for these rugged HVACR environments and include wider operating ranges, better accuracies and enhanced performance that are transforming the HVACR industry.
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Busting the Myths of Micro Molding: Grabbing Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges
Live Date: May 20, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Tune in on May 20 as plastics engineering expert Davide Masato, PhD, sets the record straight on myths and misconceptions about the miniaturization of plastic parts. Masato will shine a light on the differences between micro molding and conventional injection molding, tooling, rapid prototyping capabilities, and more — all from a product and process design perspective to help you turn engineering issues into winning applications. You'll also get the latest on technology trends and applications, including the increasingly significant role 3D printing technology plays in micro molding.
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Motion Control Solutions to Solve Your Engineering Demands and Challenges
Live Date: April 22, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
As motion control use cases evolve, engineers face more demands and expectations, from ensuring safety to increasing performance and reducing costs. Join us to discover the motion systems that provide the tools to meet those challenges head-on.
Functional safety cuts workplace hazards, boosts productivity, and encourages the use of technologies like collaborative robotics. Smart components harvest data to be used for predictive maintenance and analytics. All this combined with the latest generation of industrial Ethernet and wireless connectivity, modern motion systems deliver enhanced performance, increased productivity, reduced downtime, and lower cost of ownership.
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Automation Equipment Is Getting Smarter and Easier to Use
Live Date: April 8, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Manufacturing and process control operations are turning to automation. Industry 4.0 technology demand and implementation has increased, sparked by the need for nimble processing equipment efficiencies in response to a global pandemic. The quality of the automation equipment itself has greatly improved with this demand, from motors and servo drives to sensors and vision systems.
Join us as we explore the key advancements in automation equipment technologies that will pave way for efficient end-to-end autonomy.
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Time to Rethink Enclosures | How Thin-Films are Transforming Product Design
Live Date: April 7, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
While off-the-shelf enclosures have historically been used to provide basic product protection, trends including ruggedization, miniaturization, and cost-cutting measures are prompting engineers to explore new options. Enclosures add bulk, weight, and expenses that can introduce considerable design constraints. Additionally, most enclosures are built to prevent the ingress of water, solvents, and dust, presenting reliability threats when the case itself is compromised.
Thin-film coatings and nanocoatings protect at a sub-assembly and PCB level with beneficial features such as dielectric properties and thermal management at minimal thinness. Using thin-film coatings, designers can eliminate sub-enclosures, cut excess costs, weight and bulk, or augment enclosures for failsafe reliability. Is it time to rethink your electronic component protection strategy?
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