What is 3D printing? This article goes over the basics of 3D printing, otherwise known as additive manufacturing, covering its engineering principles and applications.
What is 3D printer filament made of? This guide examines polymers, additives, and composites, offering practical tips for digital design and hardware engineers.
With SCANOLOGY's KSCAN-X 3D scanner, wind turbine manufacturers can redesign blade core materials faster and more accurately than ever—cutting revision time from days to just 30 minutes.
Smarter technology, stronger performance.
Learn everything you need about the full adder circuit. From binary addition theory to low-power hardware implementations and modern ASIC/FPGA design flows, this technical article equips digital design engineers, hardware engineers with practical insights and current research trends.
Explore how a transistor works from first principles through practical circuit design. This in depth guide explains BJT and FET operation, switching and amplification modes, design calculations, modern market trends, and FAQs, ideal for digital design engineers, hardware engineers, and students.
In this article, we explore how soft tooling 3D printing works and how it can enhance end-of-arm tooling as well as other applications. We use examples and case studies from BASF Forward AM.
The world of polymer 3D printing is rich in technology. In this comparison, you will learn about the two most productive methods in detail: HSS and MJF
You have been tasked with buying a 3D scanner. The only problem is figuring out where to start your search. You know what 3D scanning is but don’t know enough about it to make an informed choice.
Wafer dicing separates individual integrated circuits or chips from a semiconductor wafer without damaging their delicate structures and circuits. This process is crucial for the production of electronic devices and components used in various industries, and the demand for it has increased with the development of high-performance and smaller electronic devices. Different dicing techniques, such as blade dicing, laser dicing, and plasma dicing, have been developed, and new innovations continue to emerge to address the challenges of complex semiconductor devices.
An automated packing system leveraging modular components and intuitive software to address labor-intensive challenges, optimize operational efficiency, and streamline product handling processes.
Article #7 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: Customer needs are driving innovation in industrial automation, with manufacturing environments trending towards new characteristics such as being agile, accessible, data-driven, collaborative, and resilient.
Article #6 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: Digital twins can bridge the gap between product design and manufacturing, enabling companies to simulate and optimize production processes.
Article #5 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: The next evolution of AR in manufacturing comes by pairing it with AI, allowing for seamless information access and tracking of specific surfaces/points of interest in real-time.
Article #4 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: Industrial robots combined with advanced analytics and interactions play a key role in building a complete Industry 4.0 ecosystem that achieves great results.
Article #3 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: Manufacturing has an adoption rate of 85% for IoT, the highest among businesses. Driving the move toward smart factories, some challenges must be overcome to reap the benefits of this disruptive shift.
Article #2 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: The rapid evolution of the manufacturing industry through Industry 4.0 has expanded and evolved the roles of systems, processes, and design engineers in bringing new industrial engineering to life.
Article #1 of Transforming Industrial Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Series: Advancements in less-glamorized technologies like sensing, Programmable Logic Controllers, low-power components, and vision systems have played important roles in the rapid progression of Manufacturing 4.0.
3D printing post-processing techniques turn rough and incomplete models into functional, aesthetic parts that are ready for their end-use. This article looks at the main techniques available for both polymer and metal AM.