Electronics design engineers spend substantial effort on schematics, simulation, and layout. Yet, a component’s long-term success also depends on how well its physical form aligns with downstream ...

In the competitive world of electronics manufacturing, a profound truth often goes unrecognized until expensive lessons force ...

The world of the product designer is all about designing and developing goods or products. Meanwhile, the machinist’s world is all about converting designs into real parts, based on the available ...

CAD for CAM, or computer-aided design for computer-aided manufacturing, is all about bridging the gap between the designer’s vision and the manufacturer’s process. But from working with diverse CAD ...

Companies of all types are embracing AI in distinct ways. Perhaps no other industry is moving as fast as manufacturing. Coming from the experiences of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma process changes, ...

At each transition to more advanced design and manufacturing technologies, the physical design process has undergone a transformation in breadth of requirements and depth of capability... At each ...

Sometimes referred to as lights-sparse or lights-out factories, the concept of a dark factory revolves around the development of fully automated production facilities that run 24/7 without human ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a research concept — it is the economic engine driving infrastructure investment worldwide. The growth of AI data centers, powered by high-performance CPUs, ...

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