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 ...

These days, almost every component and system in a piece of heavy equipment is becoming more intelligent through the incorporation of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT). “The core vision of IoT ...

In a previous column, we introduced the total cost diagram as a simple, easy-to-use graphic to define age zones based on the time in the life of a machine when the average cost per hour, life to date, ...

Bearings define speed, load-carrying capacity, precision, and stiffness, and they contribute to the spindle operating temperature, vibration, and noise during operation. It wasn’t so long ago that a ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE Shops can gather all the machine data they ...

Autonomous construction equipment is not merely the fanciful stuff of far-flung iron ore mines in Australia—these robotic machines are slowly gaining advocates here in North America—where we will see ...

Large industries rely entirely on the capabilities of their machines to improve productivity. Therefore, the first step in implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is to deploy a ...

• Valve terminals have evolved into integrated automation platforms. • Capabilities include control of pneumatic and electric drives, sensing, and motion control. Today, OEMs of all stripes strive to ...

When you want to see whether one CPU is faster than another, you have PassMark. For GPUs, there’s Unigine’s Superposition. But what do you do when you need to figure out how fast your machine-learning ...