Injection molding has long been the workhorse for producing plastics parts. It’s economical for high volumes and offers reliable and repeatable methods for most designs. Additive manufacturing, also ...

Daphne Allen is editor-in-chief of Design News.She previously served as editor-in-chief of MD+DI and of Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News and also served as an editor for Packaging Digest.

This case study explores how SICK sensors were implemented to ensure safety in human-material differentiation for car bodies at Audi's Ingolstadt plant. By integrating the Safe Portal system with ...

Smalley’s Wave Spring guide offers a concise overview of Wave Springs, a compact replacement for traditional coil springs. It explores various types, including Crest-to-Crest®, Single-Turn, and Linear ...

Design News is highlighting 10 black female engineers who have, and are still making, significant contributions to engineering. The women featured here cover a variety of fields from aerospace and ...

10 of the Greatest Black Inventors 10 of the Greatest Black Inventors. If you've turned on your lights, navigated traffic, played video games, or had a great water gun fight in your lifetime, you have ...

Dan, testing the 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish. ANDY MORGAN/ASTON MARTIN. He has held a Sports Car Club of America racing license since 1991, is an SCCA National race winner, two-time SCCA Runoffs ...

The exponential growth of global internet traffic, driven by cloud services, IoT, and generative AI, relies on over 400 submarine cables spanning 1.2 million kilometers. Hyperscalers like GAFAM are ...

With increasing network traffic driven by IoT and connected devices, optical transceiver modules are essential for managing data flow in data centers. This content highlights how form factors like SFP ...

I fear I’ve opened a can of wriggly worms with my recent " The Beginner’s Guide to Electronics: Tools—What to Buy First" columns (see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3).The reason I say this is that I’ve ...

The Tire Lector Array (TLA) from SICK is a sophisticated tire code-reading system designed to identify green and finished tires reliably, regardless of size, position, and alignment of barcodes. This ...

There are many steps involved in designing an effective robot application in a production environment. Beginning with the essential concept—whether it’s a pick-and-place application or a depalletizing ...