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Top 5 Control Engineering content: August 8-14, 2022

Control Engineering

Pharmaceutical control system integration: Fixing a blind spot in the process design helped user requirements for a heat exchanger control system. Integrated stepper motors trim accurate metal forming costs. Cloud architecture, when examined in its entirety, can be very complex. Three examples are highlighted.

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Global manufacturing industry growth reached 3.8% in 2022

Control Engineering

Despite this, some sectors are still performing well in Germany, including forming machinery, where order intake grew by 7% in 2022 due to strong export demand. In China, the highest growth rates in 2022 were seen in the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry, which grew by 4.9%. Overall, German growth was slow, sitting at around 0.2%

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Robotic grippers developed to pick up delicate, heavy objects

Control Engineering

The design for the new grippers builds on an earlier generation of flexible, robotic grippers that drew on the art of kirigami, which involves both cutting and folding two-dimensional sheets of material to form three-dimensional shapes. graduate from NC State.