If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

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During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

The role of EDA tools to automate manipulating, storing and exchanging data for functional safety systems was in the spotlight at DAC, as engineers wrestle with ways to improve interoperability, ...

Utility models are used extensively in China to protect the shape, structure or the combination of shape and structure of a product which is fit for practical use. Chinese inventors often look towards ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Intelligent robotic systems are bringing great gains in productivity to the factory floor. However, they also present collision hazards that could ...

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