With fully interactive products now the norm, mechanical-control circuitry has emerged as an integral part of embedded-system design. Although designers have since the early days of electronics used ...

Mechatronics is a design philosophy that emphasizesmultidisciplinary, model-based communication, collaboration,and integration from the start. Sustainabilityhas further challenged mechatronics to ...

Two things are always in short supply during machine development: time and money. Traditionally, design of motion-based machines has been a serial process. The mechanical engineers would design the ...

Mechatronics hardware design and architecture represents a confluence of mechanical, electronic, and computational disciplines aimed at creating integrated, reliable and intelligent systems.

Too often, machine design is based simply on cost, because money is easier to understand than the stated performances. Mechatronics provides the engineer with the ability to choose products from a ...

When Tetsura Mori, a senior engineer for Yaskawa Electric Corp., coined the term “mechatronics” in 1969, most people had no idea what it was. Today, it’s hard not to come across mechatronics in some ...

An electronics' manufacturer needs to develop a laptop drive in less than a year. Student engineers want to build an autonomous convoy. A system integrator must design a servo system to machine ...

Manufacturers competing in the global reset economy are struggling with multiple challenges, including this triple-whammy: strategically differentiated products are more complex. At the same time, ...

Experienced packaging professionals know that buzzwords, like rock bands, can dramatically and rapidly rise and fall in popularity. Still, the noise of publicity can sometimes obscure a strong, ...