When people think of the way new technologies are developed, they often think of the end product that people see on the shelf or showroom. This is true of any product, but it is most prominent in the ...

The tools a medical device company uses for designing automation equipment can make or break the transition to automation. The key is knowing what's out there. Kenneth Lindner, Eric P. Kilburg, Roger ...

Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys dominate the semiconductor electronic design automation software market. CDNS's growth is closely tied to overall chip design activities, which are expected to ...

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How to reduce errors and unify MCAD and ECAD teams working together on the same design. How to design with high precision and enable MCAD and ECAD teams to work in their respective design environments ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...

In the last 20 years, CPUs and networks improved by a factor of 10,000X. According to Moore’s Law, in the next 20 years, they will improve by another factor of 10,000X. During the 40-year design ...

If you are responsible for finding the right cables, as well as planning, designing and plotting their routing in machine building assembly, you know how laborious this process can be. To help ease ...