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The annual Power & Motion Salary & Career Survey has a younger perspective in 2022 as a new generation of engineers in fluid power and electric motion control design and [...]

As part of the Power & Motion Insights video series (powermotiontech.com/21243022), senior content director Bob Vavra discussed the present and the future of condition monitoring in the age of Industry [...]

In the well-lit offices and dark warehouse aisles, there is a treasure hunt under way. Despite a still-expanding manufacturing landscape, machine designers and OEMs face parts shortages and a fractured [...]

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT has seen transformative advancements driven by the convergence of technology, automation and human talent. For example, the integration of 3D printing technology has transformed traditional supply chain [...]

As Siemens rolls out its ambitious plans for Siemensstadt Square, a 180-acre mixed use development in Berlin, the company also is using the manufacturing, retail, residential and commercial site as [...]

Despite a global pandemic, a broken supply chain and a Icontinuing difficulty hiring the next generation of workers, the business of fluid power remained remarkably fluid in 2021. That's the [...]

The future of engineering in particular and manufacturing in general has reached a crossroads. Impacted by global economic challenges, supply chain disruptions and worker shortages, manufacturing also has faced an [...]

AT A TIME when manufacturers are looking for innovative ways to improve productivity and better manage costs, the 2021 IDEA! Awards provided a variety of great new solutions to review. [...]

Doosan Bobcat won two awards at the 2022 CES Show in Las Vegas for its Bobcat T7X, billed as 'the world's first all-electric compact track loader.' Helping to power the [...]

The evolution of how power is generated and controlled has opened new vistas of innovation and new possibilities for the effective and efficient use of energy. Business leaders are planning [...]

Engineers are the creative force behind change. It shouldn't be surprising that in an extraordinary year of change, disruption and uncertainty, engineers remain upbeat about their vocation and about their [...]

Sagar Patel sees the future is taking off, and he sees taking off as the future. As president of the aircraft turbine division of Woodward, a Rockford, Ill.-based manufacturer of [...]

It ends at the point of a needle, but the COVID-19 vaccine's long journey from manufacturing plants to a world of patients waiting for its tection is anything but that [...]

The nominees are in for the 2023 IDEA Awards, presented by Power & Motion in conjunction with its Endeavor Business Media affiliate brands Machine Design, Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF [...]

Even in a year of upheaval and uncertainty, engineers who participated in the 2020 Hydraulic & Pneumatics annual Salary & Career Survey offered enthusiasm for both their profession and for [...]

Industrial automation manufacturer PHD, Inc. named Aurelio Banda as president and CEO on April 1. The timing of his appointment meant he jumped into the business just as the COVID-19 [...]

AFTER THREE YEARS OF WAITING, IT'S SHOW TIME! The 2020 International Fluid Power Exposition is co-located with the CONEXPO-CON/AGG construction equipment show at the Las Vegas Convention Center on March [...]

Q: What's the one technology update that every design engineer should be incorporating into their systems today? What's the one technology upgrade that every end-user should be demanding? Volker Desch, [...]

The only thing you can't manu fac ture is the one thing everyone in manufacturing wants in abundance. Time. Keeping current in an age of acceleration and change is a [...]

The Internet of Things is evolving from concept to reality, and from technology to the way technology is used to solve real operational problems. The fifth IoT Solutions World Congress [...]

Emerson announced on April 12 its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire NI (formerly known as National Instruments). It currently owns about 2.3 million shares of NI. The acquisition [...]

The fevered excitement following Intel's January announcement that it would start construction on a $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing campus near Columbus, Ohio generated sound bites and adjectives reminiscent of 1960s [...]

Formula 1 racing cars can reach speeds of more than 220 mph, so parts reliability is a critical consideration. The weight of the car also is important, which leads car [...]

IT WAS HARD TO WALK more than a few feet at September's IMTS Show in Chicago without experiencing the impact of digital transformation. From new product offerings to connected systems [...]

The National Fluid Power Association will convene its virtual Industry & Economic Outlook Conference on August 11-13. In three half-day sessions, the event offers the fluid power industry a one-stop [...]

You're going to be hearing the phrase '20-20 vision' a lot in the coming weeks. Editors and pundits love a good tagline to hang their stories on, and with this [...]

WE ALL HAVE OUR FAVORITES. I have cultivated a series of lists over the years to include favorite song ('Deacon Blues' by Steely Dan), favorite movie ('Network,' from 1975, which [...]

ONE OF THE AREAS Machine Design's content team has explored in 2022 is the relationship between design and operations in a modern manufacturing plant. And as fundamental as that sounds, [...]

TOM PETERS IS my favorite business author. His combination of practical case studies, in-depth research, deep thinking and snappy prose makes it a pleasure to dig through such weighty topics [...]

IT'S PROBABLY TOO CLICHE to suggest additive manufacturing is entering a new dimension. The promise of 3D printing as a prototyping tool was quickly realized by manufacturing managers. The evolution [...]

THE SEMICONDUCTOR WAS once a mostly overlooked commodity--cheap and plentiful for manufacturers and little understood by the consumer. No longer. That little chip that makes the Digital Age possible now [...]

IN THIS WONDERFUL and interconnected age of information, perhaps the best thing to come from all of it is the ability to deliver information to the right person at the [...]

Motion has completed its acquisition of Kaman Distribution Group (KDG) in a $1.3 billion deal that will merge two of the country's largest industrial distributors under the Motion brand and [...]

One of the best parts of this job is getting to share great stories about how technology is applied. There's a lot of focus on what product innovations will do [...]

Power & Motion has named six industry leaders to its first Editorial Advisory Board. The board's role will be to help guide the present and future content direction of Power [...]

When you've been in your basement after a thunderstorm, up to your ankles in water because your sump pump failed, it's too late to think about being able to predict [...]

It's traditional to get both sentimental and optimistic as a new year arrives. Both are valuable emotions, particularly in these days, but neither have much to do with the changing [...]

THEY'RE BUILDING A NEW BRIDGE across the interstate near the community where my mother lives. When she and my father moved there 25 years ago, the traditional four lanes of [...]

AS A LIFELONG CHICAGOAN, I'm often pleased that so many people comment on how much they like my hometown. In those conversations, however, one thing keeps coming up--winter. Each year, [...]

As part of Machine Design's 90th anniversary issue in January, we asked industry experts to take a look at the present and future of technology and how it will impact [...]

As part of Machine Design's 90th anniversary issue in January, we've asked industry experts to take a look at the present and future of technology and how it will impact [...]

As part of Machine Design's 90th anniversary issue in January, we've asked industry experts to take a look at the present and future of technology and how it will impact [...]

It was a typical third day at Pack Expo as the annual packaging and material handling event ended its run in Las Vegas on Sept. 29. Being able to use [...]

THE ROAD TO CHANGE can be crowded, messy and occasionally clogged by collisions. That's also almost unavoidable. Sometimes the road is paved with good intentions, but there are those willing [...]

In a transformational time for the global manufacturing sector, the post-COVID recovery has been no less disruptive. While job openings are seemingly every-where and supply chains are impacted as a [...]

More than 25 years ago, I was invited to view the videotape of a robotic gallbladder a fascinating process that demonstrated how with surgeon-controlled probes, a less invasive form of [...]

In an effort to help member companies connect with future workers interested in the fluid power industry, the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) has created a program to support internship [...]

ADDING NEW, advanced manufacturing solutions to existing systems can seem to some like the old canard, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' The ability to easily add, monitor and [...]

AT THE START of another football season, it's appropriate to begin with a quote from one of the game's greatest coaches, Vince Lombard! More than 50 years after his death, [...]

AT THE START of another football season, it's appropriate to begin with a quote from one of the game's greatest coaches, Vince Lombardi. He was known as a tough taskmaster, [...]