Apple Steals Competitors' Engineers
New product development for Apple means a high-demand for engineers and managers at the plant level to continuously monitor these developments from its suppliers and manufacturers.
View ArticleWireless Sensors: Is Energy-Harvesting Possible?
A reader sent us the following "Real Answers" question, can you help us answer it?
View ArticlePower: Out When You Most Need It
Eaton’s recently released its 2013 Annual Blackout Tracker Report, which shows that power outages are still a major problem for facility managers across the U.S. As it shows, some of causes can be...
View ArticleHow to Design Better-Performing and More Reliable Machines?
Are data acquisition capabilities of PACs and newer PLCs a better path to use when designing better machines than standalone DAQ systems?
View ArticleEngineering Back-to-Basics Help
This article was published in our February 2008 issue of Control Design along with "The Not-So-Odd Couple."How helpful do you find refreshers and primers on engineering topics? Do back-to-basics...
View ArticleAerotech: 99 Problems But Vibration Ain't One
The fellas at Aerotech put together a rap about common motion control issues. So? Who said motion control professionals weren't exciting?
View ArticleMulti-Axis Controller Powers Huge Multimedia Clock
A multi-axis motion controller is helping bring a large mechanical piece of art to life.
View ArticlePhoenix Contact Went Off the Grid on Earth Day. What?
How did you spend Earth Day? I hope you did something "earthy," or at least earth-friendly. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Phoenix Contact's president, Jack Nehlig, ceremonially disconnected...
View ArticleThe Way We Were: Top 100 Innovative Companies in the World
An infographic from 2011 gives a snapshot of the top 100 innovative companies in the world at that time, and what countries they hail from. Stay tuned for more to come.
View ArticleComputer Passes Turing Test — Fools Examiner into Thinking It's Human
Recently, and for the first time, a computer "passed" the 65-year old Turing Test.
View ArticleEven Female Engineers Would Wear Hard Hats
Should industry create a different or more modern representation of the profession than that of the "hard-hat engineer"?
View ArticlePurchasing an Encoder? Check out Amazon.com
Previously focused on consumer products, the online shopping site Amazon.com also provides fairly highly engineered devices.
View Article3D Printing — Helping Shape the Future of Innovation
MakerBot and Florida Polytechnic team to bring 3D printing technology to STEM students and faculty.
View ArticleBritain's Newest Aircaft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Takes Her First Dip
HMS Queen Elizabeth's 65,000 ton aircraft carrier takes her first dip at the dock she was assembled at in Rosyth, Britain.
View ArticleSupplier Meets Customer
Potential Customer Meets Potential Supplier...what could possibly go wrong?
View ArticleHow Dr. Seuss Would Automate Quality Management
How would Dr. Seuss have approached quality management? Certainly not conventionally. Here’s Brenda Percy's tribute to the prose of Dr. Seuss…with a quality management twist.
View ArticleEngineers at Stanford Develop Ant-Size Radio to Realize the 'Internet of Things'
The 'Internet of Things' could soon be contained in a radio the size of an ant.
View ArticleRobotic Arms Make Adaptive Manufacturing That Much Easier
Thanks to high functioning robotic arms, weaving composite parts from long strands of light and strong carbon fibers could make life in the manufacturing industry that much easier.
View ArticleResults Are in: 43% Still Don' t Get IoT
Approximately 43% of 175 industrial respondents still do not have a full understanding of IoT capabilities or applications, whereas over 20% had made some form of investment in IoT to date.
View ArticleControlDesign.com Gets New Website Look
We've gone under the knife, the cyber knife that is. Our design team, programmers and editorial staff have been hard at work getting our site and all of our content ready for the major transformation.
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