Festo launches the System Configurator, free online software that combines motion, pneumatics, and I/O design in one workflow ...

MagneMotion, Inc. has worked with Tek-Matic and Accelerated Machine Design and Engineering (AMD&E) to provide an easily customizable precision assembly automation system that improves productivity and ...

Van Horn, whose resume includes engineering efforts on the Madison Square Garden Sphere in Las Vegas, discusses how combining MBSE with laser metrology improves accuracy from design to installation.

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

On display at the Design Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions Expo in Tokyo, this pen assembly machine from Keyence is an impressive example of robotic multi-tasking and dexterity – albeit perhaps ...

Purdue's Automated Assembly Team. Front: David Burroughs, Jason Wintz, Aaron Burns. Second row: Mike Harrington, Ryan Streu, Brad Harriger (team advisor) and Kelley VanBuskirk (Phoenix Contact mentor) ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

In 1995 I was driving around Ann Arbor, Mich., one rainy day when I became fixated on my wind-shield wipers. I was then an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.