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

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 ...

In this full-length interview, Design World Managing Editor Mike Santora sits down with Felix Brockmeyer, CEO of Igus, for a wide-ranging conversation recorded at IMTS 2026 about the forces reshaping ...

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 ...

AutomationDirect now offers Murrplastik MP35 and MP45 series drag chains for managing and protecting cables and hoses in robotic, packaging and other dynamic motion applications. Both series use ...

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

Ruland has supplied a modified oldham coupling for a dialysis equipment manufacturer’s pump-and-valve assembly, reducing the coupling cost by approximately $300 per unit while maintaining the ...

ABB Robotics has launched E-Device, a compact safety interface that allows users to operate, program and monitor OmniCore-powered robots and cobots with their own tablet or PC. Based on the OmniCore ...

Soon, a new “motion insights and diagnostics” service from Swiss precision-drive specialist maxon called maxon MIND will help machine builders and plant engineers add condition monitoring and ...

Last week, I ordered a new pair of heavily padded shoes, an upgraded mic pack, and I set off to Chicago to tackle the labyrinthine manufacturing extravaganza known as IMTS. This year, the takeaway I ...