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iBase-t Achieves Record Revenue in Fiscal 2023

iBASEt

Concurrently, iBase-t also unveiled a companywide rebrand delivering a new look and feel designed to better represent the company’s modern solutions for discrete manufacturing. ” Product Innovation iBase-t’s Solumina iSeries underwent several key updates culminating with its most recent version, i090.

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Method developed to make semiconductors smart, compact

Control Engineering

“It’s not practical yet, but we want to take the underlying mechanism and make it scalable and something attractive to the semiconductor industry,” said Maschmann, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Aligning patterns between processing steps makes the manufacturing process especially complex.

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Stretchable soft robotics use strain sensors

Control Engineering

That’s why Hangbo Zhao , who holds dual appointments as assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Alfred E. There’s also high demand for developing implantable sensors that can continuously monitor the functional status of internal organs that undergo cyclic expansion and contraction.

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Improving usability is growing trend in industrial robotics

Control Engineering

Enabling industrial robots to function autonomously is the next step in usability,” Ravensbergen said. The biggest benefit of autonomous functionality is not just the savings in programming and deployment times, but that robots can respond effectively to high mix production.

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Robots deployed to improve on-the-job safety for retail workers

Control Engineering

Yu Gu and Jason Gross, associate professors in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , have received $367,000 from the National Science Foundation to study ways of reducing falling risk in retail environments. Data will generate real-time indoor space walkability maps informing pedestrians of potential risks.

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Robotic grippers developed to pick up delicate, heavy objects

Control Engineering

“It is difficult to develop a single, soft gripper that is capable of handling ultrasoft, ultrathin, and heavy objects, due to tradeoffs between strength, precision and gentleness,” said Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.

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FABTECH 2023 – 3D/Additive Manufacturing, Forming & Fabricating

Fabricating & Metal Work

Additionally, the robot’s NC Cooperation guidance function features a mobile display, voice operation, and provides notifications to enable efficient operation. ECI’s JobBOSS² is an award-winning, cloud-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the job shop and make-to-order segment of the manufacturing market.