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A grouping of Mitsubishi Electric’s AC drives or variable frequency drives (VFDs). In the competitive landscape of machine design, engineers in food, pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors face the ...

Surely, if you’re reading this website you’ve teased the thought of building your own 3D printer. I certainly did. But from my years of repeated rebuilds of my homebrew laser cutter, I learned one ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

Machine Design is the comprehensive technical resource for mechanical engineers providing the technical essentials of advanced design and manufacturing. Our content team, engineers who have worked in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Machines, an innovator in intelligent, software-defined manufacturing, today announced an early preview of Bright Designer, a new web-based ...

Breaking down a machine into systems based on both functionality and resources can simplify design and maintenance, a concept explored in a recent column from Control Design. For controls engineers, ...

Now anyone can be a model designer with assistive tooling and a new automated ML development service. All you need is data. Machine learning is an important part of modern application development, ...

At Automation Fair 2021, Sarah Larson of Rockwell Automation explained how the use of simulation and emulation software from Emulate3D, a Rockwell Automation company, is used to develop, test, and ...