I've interviewed a lot of engineers at trade shows. Most are good. A few are great. Every so often, someone stops you cold. That happened at a booth at ...

As engineering continues to evolve, so do the roles of the people shaping it. Kimberly Upton and Amanda Lucas share how ...

By Alexsander Tamari, Technical Marketing Engineer, Altium People often assume that the hardest part of an engineer’s job is sourcing the right component ...

Consider a dominant form of machine control today — multicore industrial PCs or IPCs built around x86 and ARM system-on-chip processors. For discrete automation, these run deterministic control and a ...

Remember what Beaulieu said about tariffs. In late January of this year, I was fortunate enough to see our industry’s beloved economist Alan Beaulieu present at the A3 Business Forum in Orlando. As he ...

Elevators are often viewed as mere functional utilities, but Episode 7 of “Travel for Engineers” reveals the intricate engineering marathons occurring behind those sliding doors. We explore how “cool” ...

PAL Robotics demonstrates complex motion and control next to human workers. This episode is brought to you by Mouser ...

In 1984, Lockheed ceased production of the L1011 TriStar airplane and exited the world of commercial aircraft for good. For Lockheed, its latest passenger jet had been heralded as a technological ...

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The August 2026 issue of Design World examines Ford’s decision to bring back 350 veteran “gray beard” engineers to fix quality problems its automated systems couldn’t catch on their own — and what ...

The environment in downhole drilling rigs is harsh. It begins with extremely high pressures and temperatures (HPHT). The connectors in these applications must survive HPHT and corrosive environments ...

Managing the six-axis platform in robotics requires special consideration when designing cabling systems. In the field of multi-axis robots, industrial integrators are faced with the unique challenge ...