From automotive production lines to shipbuilding, robotic arms, and the software that runs them, welding automation has played an important role in producing increasingly complex parts in shorter periods of time.
Collaboration, outreach, industry experts, and a multitude of cutting-edge technologies took center stage at the recent Smart Manufacturing Experience.
The first rule of efficiency is to accurately measure equipment utilization and quality rates.
CMMs and other multifunctional metrology devices are becoming faster and more sophisticated, but top-quality gages and measuring tools still have an important place.
Shop floor metrology equipment is getting faster, smarter, and more automated.
Is it time for an upgrade?
Purdue University’s College of Engineering is partnering with MediaTek Inc., a leading global fabless chipmaker, to open the Midwest’s first semiconductor chip design center, to be housed on Purdue’s campus.
Automation with high data density is a key to smart manufacturing.
The basic principles behind the universal joint are centuries old, but the methods to make them are changing.
Measurements have been used to define and attempt to control the stuff we make throughout recorded history. Here's the latest.
Press technology — whether mechanical, hydraulic, or servo — plays many roles.
