Most engineers are surprised to learn that the term mechatronics isnearly 40 years old. It was first used in1969 by Tetsuro Mori, anengineer at the Yaskawa Company, to describe a system composed ...

When The MathWorks introduced Matlab technical-computing software more than 20 years ago, many of the first users were control-system designers. Anyone who had laboriously inverted matrices by hand to ...

The very simulation technology that Dr. Steve Levine dedicated his career to developing became a literal lifesaver for him, with the help of his daughter—who also happened to be the inspiration for ...

Automation aims to standardize industrial operations and bring overall efficiency to today’s production lines. Such gains, however, may come with considerable effort, as engineering teams must ...

The increasing complexity of these products requires a design flow which permits the engineer to simulate the entire multi-die system over the full manufacturing ...

What is IBIS? How to create IBIS models. Looking at the switching behavior of I/O buffers. Formatting the IBIS model. The two parts to the IBIS model validation process. IBIS stands for input/output ...

This old adage is one that craftsmen understand well and never question. Careful measurement and planning is essential in producing any quality product, and when it comes to the building industry, a ...