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The design stage of a product’s life cycle is arguably one of the most crucial decision making periods, as 70 to 80 percent of the overall manufacturing cost can be projected at this stage. Engineers ...

Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

A software-powered simulation for assembly behavior can compensate for the gap in automation by building intuition in the safety of a high-fidelity digital twin. The best way to align a screw is a ...

The integration level of a system-on-chip (SoC) is defined in RTL, just like the rest of the design. Historically, RTL has been built through text editors. However, a decade or more ago, the sheer ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

Rittal LLC and Eplan LLC will jointly debut three new manufacturing automation products and a partnership with Microsoft and ...

While many factory processes are not yet automated, new products in the era of Industry 4.0 must—at the very least—be prepared for automation. Automation technologies require new and complex design ...

VLC Photonics, a renowned photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design and test house (part of the Hitachi High-Tech Group), and ficonTEC, a leading provider of automated assembly and test production ...