Electronic system design (ESD) industry revenue increased 17.1% year-over-year from $2,953.9 million to $3,458.1 million in Q3 2021, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announced today in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four, rose 16.1%. The companies tracked in […]
The top 5 most read articles online, from January 10-16, 2022, for Control Engineering covered most-viewed articles of 2021, machine learning, motor nameplates, the IT/OT relationship and LV drive trends. Links to each article below. 1. Hot topics in Control Engineering for 2021 Think Again: PLC programming, AI and control system evolution, the Career and […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency expects nuclear power to grow significantly in the coming decades, by up to 82 percent by the year 2050. That would create an increase in demand for uranium that reserves on land may not be able to meet. But the world’s oceans, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, contain […]
The advance of 5G wireless technology could provide the transport industry’s assortment of end users many benefits, but what can it do for manufacturing? Juliet Elliot investigates Streamlining the manufacturing process is something all factory managers are focused on. Volkswagen is pushing ahead with the use of 5G at its Dresden and Wolfsburg plants to […]
Synthetic resins are increasingly gaining a foothold in safety-critical applications such as electric vehicle protection. Matthias Steiner and Christian Stöveken take up the story EV fires are, thankfully, rare but should an accident occur and a cell short circuit, the possibility is there. The flammable nature of the lithium electrolyte means that EV makers routinely […]
The JALCOM editors are grateful for all the support of our many reviewers, and especially those who go above and beyond by providing multiple, thorough, and timely reviews in a single year. Herein we are happy to announce that the following five reviewers that have been selected from the pool of nominees to receive the […]
Could self-powered ‘smart clothing’ be a step closer? From denim jackets that connect with your smartphone, to yoga pants that help you optimise your form, smart clothing is becoming big business. While smaller, more specialist companies initially led the way in incorporating electronic devices into wearable items, the past few years has seen major clothing […]
When layers of 'magic-angle' graphene (bottom) come into contact with layers of certain transition metals, it induces a phenomenon called spin-orbit coupling in the graphene layers. That phenomenon gives rise to surprising physics, including ferromagnetism. Image: Li Lab/Brown University. When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are stacked together at a particular angle with […]
VBG Group has acquired all shares in the U.S. company The Carlyle Johnson Machine Co. LLC for $16.5 million through its subsidiary Ringfeder Power Transmission US. Carlyle Johnson, which employs 50 people, was founded in 1903 in Hartford, Connecticut and designs and manufactures components for motion control that are used in industrial applications. Carlyle Johnson’s […]
Learning Objectives The key components of sizing a rotary knife include finding a cam relationship for the worst-case product to cut, knowing inertia of the cylinder to rotate and using software. Modifications can be added after confirming these critical items. A flywheel disk to mimic a rotary knife application case study is used. Calculations […]