With fully interactive products now the norm, mechanical-control circuitry has emerged as an integral part of embedded-system design. Although designers have since the early days of electronics used ...

If you design mechatronic systems and want to learn more about using microcontrollers (MCUs) in your applications, then listen to our Design News radio program Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

To improve the design of consumer goods and industrial motion setups, engineers have embraced mechatronics — but have had to develop techniques to deliver on its promises of flexibility and ...

Though mechatronics promises more efficient machines at alower cost, following the mechatronics' approach of integrated designhas been challenging for most machine builders. The premise ofmechatronics ...

Two things are always in short supply during machine development: time and money. Traditionally, design of motion-based machines has been a serial process. The mechanical engineers would design the ...

The top drivers in industry today forimproving development processesare shorter product-developmentschedules and increased customerdemand for better-performing products.As engineering systems become ...

Mechatronics hardware design and architecture represents a confluence of mechanical, electronic, and computational disciplines aimed at creating integrated, reliable and intelligent systems.

With the annual RoboBusiness conference coming up fast (Sept. 23-24 in San Jose), I had a chance to talk beforehand with some of the participants. One was Matt Ondler, president of Houston ...

Mechanical + electronics = mechatronics. Simple. Yes? Actually, mechatronics covers a lot of ground and means different things to different designers, ranging from basic motor control of a single ...

Alvier Mechatronics backed by industry leader parent company Höganäs AB Collaboration decreases time-to-market, increases sustainability and leverages the industry's most advanced technology for ...