Motion System Design News
Vibrating motors in suit train Olympiads
MotivePro — the Vibrating Suit — is designed to give wearers feedback about where their body is in space. It does this by focussing on key points in the body, taking relative measurements between them to check the user's position. This data, much more simple to acquire and treat in real time than more complex motion capture systems, is then used to give the wearer feedback in real time about their movement....
Siemens power supply eliminates need for rail mounting
Internet Resources
Free and public eLearning on automation Omron Industrial Automation is expanding its eLearning education portal at omron247.com/elearning to include 10...
Automation streamlines catheter production
The process of assembling intravenous catheters is a tricky and sometimes prickly - business. Catheters consist of several parts, including a protective...
Medical conference meets in City of Brotherly Love
MD&M East, a medical device conference and exposition, will be held May 21 to 24 in Philadelphia. The meeting is for those involved in research and development,...
Alan Beaulieu to keynote CSIA conference
Good news is in the forecast. Economist Alan Beaulieu predicts that the U.S. economy will recover, despite economic turbulence in the European Union,...
Innovation contest: Win an iPad2 or 3D printer
The Boca Bearing Company, Boynton Beach, Fla., is celebrating its 25th year in business by doling out more than $20,000 in cash and prizes as part of...
IPCs face competition from ARM-based products
Recently published statistics from IMS Research, Austin, show that the world market for industrial PCs (IPCs) was estimated to be worth $2.07 billion...
A toast to reverse engineering
When Thomas Thwaites was a second-year postgraduate design student at the Royal College of Art in London, he decided to build a toaster for his master's...
Hannover Fair highlights sustainability and efficiency
Hannover Fair 2012 will take place from April 23 to 27 in Hannover, Germany, and will focus on resource-saving industrial technologies. Thousands of innovations...
Save the Date: PTDA meetings
All PTDA members are invited to attend the General Educational Session of the 2012 Spring Leaders Conference. The conference provides members of the power...
MMA offers free upgraded membership
The Mechatrolink Members Association (MMA) announces a membership drive with significant benefits for prospective members. Any end user, machine builder,...
Oil and gas: Ramping up for reliability
The oil and gas drilling industry has typically placed less emphasis on machine reliability than other industries such as power generation, refining,...
Medium-voltage motor control center market in midst of recovery
According to the 2011 Medium Voltage MCCs and Soft Starters study published by IMS Research, Austin, the market for motor control centers (MCCs) is slowly...
Best by Design 2011 Contest Winners
Best by Design Gold Mechanical The TPM+ actuator family offers maximum power density in a compact footprint, with servomotors and gearheads merged seamlessly...
Worldwide machinery production sees record year in 2011
2011 goes in the books as a record-breaking year for worldwide machinery production with overall growth at 10.2%, according to market analysis firm IMS...
New eBook series available for free download
Hello, dear reader! Did you know that there are now seven eBooks available for free from the homepage of motionsystemdesign.com and that more of these...
Meet Robert Lindeman, 2012 ISA President
Tell us about your educational background. I grew up in Orange, California, and attended public elementary through high school there. I graduated from...
Internet Resources
ONLINE MOTOR MATCH Just a mouseclick away is a full-service engineering department and tools to create fractional horsepower electric motors, custom gearmotors,...
Prototyping holds promise at Pacific Design
When it comes to advanced design software, CAD programs such as ProEngineer, Inventor, SolidWorks, CATIA, Solid Edge, and others are the gold standard....
New alloy suits MEMS devices
A multi-institution team of researchers, spearheaded by a group at the University of Maryland, is combining new materials research with an old metallurgy...
element14 Innovation Series
An element14 Innovation Series virtual event will take place Jan. 16 and 17....
AutomationDirect named great place to work
AutomationDirect, Cumming, Ga., was recently ranked Number Four on The Great Place to Work Rankings: 2011 Best Small & Medium Workplaces presented by...
Custom parts suit space-age applications
NASA's next Mars rover Curiosity took off for the red planet on November 25, 2011, and plans to safely land in the Gale crater area by August 2012. The...
Lockheed Martin hosts science festival
A report delivered to Congress last fall finds that the U.S. now ranks 48th in terms of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The...
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