Control Engineering

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Jin-Hoon Kim, an MIT postdoc, is the lead author of the paper, which appears in Nature Electronics. Dagdeviren’s lab, the Conformable Decoders group, specializes in developing flexible, stretchable electronics that can be worn on the skin or incorporated into textiles to detect signals from the body. “In Mask fit quality.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Using an electron beam, they are able to create a desired pattern on semiconductors — a technique not often used in the industry. They’re using an electron beam as a “pencil” to write the patterns exactly where they want them. It’s not a common environment to have — water vapor and focused electron beams,” Maschmann said.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 27, 2022

Flexible electronics have enabled the design of sensors, actuators, microfluidics and electronics on flexible, conformal and/or stretchable sublayers for wearable, implantable or ingestible applications. In utilizing these 3D printers, Deo was able to print electrically active and stretchable electronic devices.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 11, 2022

A false-color image from a scanning electron microscope shows hundreds of gold tetrahedrons — nanoparticles shaped like pyramids — that randomly form “chiral” structures as they self-assemble in a flat two-dimensional sheet. I just wanted to see that the particles were pure and uniform in size.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

Fibre is impervious to electronic noise, so the SFP slots may be useful in running long-distance communications between the robot and a remote higher-level controller. Power over Ethernet (PoE, PoE+, PoE++) is available on most of industrial switches to uncomplicate the connection of cameras and other components.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 30, 2023

manufacturing. For a generation that is sometimes said to ‘live’ on their electronic devices, the opportunity to program a cobot from a smartphone or tablet can be very appealing and an extension of what they are already familiar with,” Campbell said. “We

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here, processes may use power supplies with output voltages in the tens of kV for precision electron and ion beam acceleration, scanning and control as well as high-voltage pulsed DC power supplies that minimize arcing, enhance deposition rate, improve film flatness and packing density.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 21, 2023

Robotics insights Industrial robot market growth is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% from 2019 to 2029 thanks to robotics being increasingly used in the automotive and electronics industry according to a report by Future Market Insights. This is driven by the digitalization of manufacturing processes.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2023

And there’s no clear end in sight for shortages of key electric/electronic components, especially semiconductors, which could remain elusive into 2025. In response, motion control suppliers are pulling out all the stops to serve customers and maintain growth plans.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2022

The red areas are electro-deficient, the green is electron rich. An image from a Kelvin probe force microscope shows the electronic potential distribution across the metallic and semiconductor phases of MoTe2. This allows one to engineer materials in 2D to create device architectures that could be unique in electronic applications.”.

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Control Engineering

MAY 30, 2023

Robotics insights Total robotics installations in manufacturing rose more than 10% in 2022 with the automotive industry being the main driver. Non-automotive industries were led by electrical/electronics, which posted almost 30% growth. They each represent a 9% market share of industrial robot installations in 2022.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The details were published in Nature Electronics. By designing the synaptic transistor to operate with both synaptic behaviors simultaneously, fewer transistors are needed compared to conventional integrated electronics technology, which simplifies the system architecture and allows the device to conserve energy.”.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As Sage relates, typical challenges in machine design include compatibility and integration issues associated with electronic controls, drives and software sourced from a variety of vendors. Using a single source for machine automation design can solve many design, startup, and commissioning problems.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 12, 2023

The company also is working with medical devices and agricultural equipment, had outreach from electronics manufacturing, and expects to be working soon with the aerospace industry. The automaker said they are constantly finding new use cases for the technology such as ergonomics analysis to prevent injuries.

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

During Q1, non-automotive orders in consumer goods, semiconductor & electronics, plastics & rubber, life sciences/pharmaceutical/ biomedical, metals, and others purchased 3,519 robots, down 42% over Q1 2022. Automotive customers accounted for 68% of all robot orders in Q1, with 5,659 robots purchased.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Wittman has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gavin Davidson: With more than 10 years at NetSuite, Gavin Davidson is industry product manager for manufacturing and distribution.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The sensors can measure a strain range up to three times higher than typical sensors, making them valuable for applications in soft robotics, wearable electronics, prosthetics, and biomedicine. Hollywood is a go-to source of inspiration for roboticists.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Assured that Tour’s process worked as well on asphaltene as it did on various other feedstocks, including plastic , electronic waste , tires , coal fly ash and even car parts , the researchers set about making things with their graphene. That led us to think maybe we should try making graphene with flash Joule heating.”.

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Control Engineering

JULY 26, 2023

Globally, the Americas is expected to suffer last from the impending market slowdown, with some of the largest industries for motion controls, such as semiconductors and electronics machinery, performing well due to the uplift from the CHIPS and Science Act.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Globally, the benefits that this joined up approach to production can bring is seeing a steady growth across a variety of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, electronics, logistics and construction as companies look for ways to integrate robots into their operations.

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Control Engineering

JULY 11, 2023

An MEMS for automobile sensors are computer systems that govern and control the car’s complete mechanical, electronic, and electrical systems. South Korea: South Korea’s well-known electronics and automobile sectors make major contributions to the market. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.7% during this period.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 31, 2023

The strongest demand in Q2 came from the semiconductor & electronics industries, followed by life sciences/pharma and biomedical, plastics & rubber and metals, with automotive components, food & consumer goods and automotive OEMs showing the biggest drops.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With its globally recognized electronics industry and a distinct automotive sector, the Korean economy profits from two large customer industries for industrial robots. The Republic of Korea hit an all-time high of 1,000 industrial robots per 10,000 employees in 2021.

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Control Engineering

JULY 30, 2022

These thin films could play an important role in flexible or wearable electronics and in the development of unique multilayer devices for next-generation computing.

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Control Engineering

JULY 22, 2022

In science, disorder refers to imperfections or nearby charges that might scatter the otherwise straight path of an electron. 2D materials like graphene are particularly susceptible to nearby disorder because they are literally several atoms thick, at most.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2023

Among show-related efforts beyond explaining their sustainability offerings, exhibitors can participate in a post-show donation program, benefiting local organizations in the Las Vegas area, by donating any unwanted food, electronics or booth materials. PMMI will donate or recycle any remaining carpet after the show.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2023

We think the gripper design has potential applications in fields ranging from robotic prosthetics and food processing to pharmaceutical and electronics manufacturing,” Yin said. “We

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Application industries include e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and electronics among others. Richard (Rick) Ankney, global account manager, robots and discrete automation, Robotics Business Unit, ABB, explains advantages of ABB AI-enabled Robotic Item Picker.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Electronic motion control for motors is widely used with industrial machinery to perform rapid, accurate, and energy-efficient movements of parts and mechanisms. Later, more integrated versions of electronic motion control for motors, compatible with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), were introduced.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 9, 2023

To maintain the necessary skills to assist customers in with a variety of tasks in industries such as including automotive, electronics, energy, food and beverage, health and medical , and consumer products, Calvary engineers earn credentials from a third-party certified integrator program.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2023

And with support from the Office of Naval Research, we are already using RoboMapper to advance our understanding of materials for both organic solar cells and printed electronics. “We’re open to working with industry partners to identify new materials for photovoltaics or other applications.

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Control Engineering

MAY 24, 2023

Apparel manufacturing. Automation has transformed many industries including automotive and electronics, but apparel manufacturing has been mostly manual. AI-enabled robotics can help change that. See video example.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Hoske, Control Engineering Machine redesign add flexibility, precision, reliability Codi Manufacturing , a machine builder for cans and bottling packaging for distribution, demonstrated efficiencies created when redesigning a machine that had used pneumatics with electronic motion controls, a programmable logic controller, drives, distributed input/output (..)

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While earlier versions of assembler bots were connected by bundles of wires to their power source and control systems, “what emerged was the idea of structural electronics — of making voxels that transmit power and data as well as force.” “When we’re building these structures, you have to build in intelligence,” Gershenfeld said.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Demand for SCARA robots has been affected by the weak semiconductor and consumer electronics sectors since 2021, but this negative impact has been offset by demand from the surging new energy industry, such as lithium-ion battery manufacturing and photovoltaics.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 23, 2023

Ajey Jacob , Director of Advanced Electronics at ISI described the effect. “In Two jobs spread over two separate platforms In the rabbit-in-the-road scenario above, on the “frontend” is the vision sensing (where the car’s sensors capture the rabbit’s image) and on the “backend” is the vision processing (where the data is analyzed).

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

An ac drive operates by first converting the applied ac voltage into dc, then using solid state electronic circuits to rebuild a sinusoidal waveform at the desired frequency to apply to the motor. VFDs are used for ac and dc motors and ac drives can be used with single or three phase induction motors.

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