James Anderton: “The industrial internet of things.” “Industry 4.0.” These are buzzwords they're throwing around the industry everywhere in these days. But what do they really mean? If you're involved…
This eBook confronts the trend toward engineering designs comprising a high percentage of procured-in content, and the organizational issues of cross-functional coordination especially between engineering and procurement. Source URL: CIMdata…
The first OmniCore variants are designed to help integrate robots into the digital factory ecosystem, whether manufacturers need standardized motion control or more tailored solutions. Source URL: ABB announces OmniCore…
At the core of v16 is the PCM5 controller. It has a touchscreen interface for troubleshooting, fanless cooling, and embedded cyber security that is auto-configured and enabled by default. Source…
The SSW Detect Switch has many attributes, such as Electric Parking Brakes (EPB) and x-by-wire, which each require functional safety in accordance with the ISO 26262 automotive standard, as well…
Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach by Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust CPEng, leverages the performance and documentation requirements defined in the ISA/IEC 61511 functional process…
KBR, Inc. announced recently that its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a $133 million task order by the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Project Office to provide technical and engineering…
(Image courtesy of GF Machining Solutions.) The information and communications technology (ICT) and automotive sectors both make extensive use of graphite molds for glass end products and graphite electrodes. Graphite…
The F-35 Lightning II. (Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin.) Northrop Grumman is accelerating the production of the center fuselage of the F-35 Lightning II to a maximum rate of one…
James Anderton: Directed-energy deposition is a great way to build very complex, sophisticated parts with complex internal geometries out of metal. I'm with Melanie Lang, she's co-founder of Formalloy. Melanie,…