Physical prototypes remain essential, but they no longer need to be the first moment when teams experience a design in ...

Volvo CE designs smarter with model-based systems engineering (MBSE). By connecting requirements, models and field data into a single digital thread, they were able to reduce errors, accelerate ...

Automation equipment and system integrators provide equipment and solutions for automating manufacturing processes. They design, modify, or supply part fabrication and assembly equipment, automated ...

Machine Design is the comprehensive technical resource for mechanical engineers providing the technical essentials of advanced design and manufacturing. Our content team, engineers who have worked in ...

When properly applied, double-redundant and fail-safe design methods focus validation practices on machine enhancement and reliability, reducing dependence on operator vigilance and intervention. Ray ...

The standards used for decades were those published by the Joint Industry Council. NFPA 79 is often cited as the replacement to JIC, but is it up to the task? The JIC standards have not been supported ...

Imagine a robot with an all-around bump sensor. The response to the bump sensor activating depends on the previous state of the robot. If it had been going forward, a bump will send it backwards and ...

Machine repair is fixing any sort of mechanical or electrical device that is out of order or broken as well as performing routine actions that keep the device in working order, or to prevent trouble ...