Engineering Industry Insights & Trends
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S1E22 US Workers Ponder the Threat of Robotics
The march of automation and manufacturing has always been associated with the fear of job loss. The rapid advancement of industrial robotics in the last 20 years has created a cottage industry of…
S1E21 Italian machine tech and why it endures in uncertain times
The Trump Administration’s tariff regime has sent shockwaves around the manufacturing world, and has made ”re-shoring" the new word in American manufacturing. Machinery, however, is a global…
S1E20 Robots, drones, AGVs: it’s all about navigation
Self-driving cars, drones, humanoid robots. They are all over the news and popular culture today and are technologies that need a critical capability: navigation. It’s been true for thousands of…
S1E19 Drone helicopters with multiple applications
Drones are everywhere today, from suburban backyards to battlefields. In between these extremes is a huge market for useful pilotless aircraft for remote inspection, payload delivery and remote…
S1E18 One tool, to make everything?
Manufacturing engineers call it the “death zone”. Some call it the “scaling conundrum”. Once a design is finalized, and a prototype made, it’s frequently expensive and difficult to create the pilot…
S1E17 AI powered mass collaboration for engineering
COVID 19 generated an unprecedented demand for remote work and created a demand for mass collaboration tools that let designers work as unified teams, without a physical presence. For many tasks,…
S1E16 An AI first: building electrical layout
Building engineering is a unique form of craft and science, blending multiple materials, processes and design methodologies. Cabling a modern structure means coping with power and signal conductors…
S1E15 The future of artificial intelligence isn’t what you think
Few emerging technologies have generated as much interest, research and concern as AI, and in the engineering space, it’s no different. It is now clear that AI represents a tool of unprecedented…
S1E14 Why the future is mechatronic
Mechatronics blends mechanical engineering, electronics, control systems, and computing into one intelligent system. Without it, self-parking cars, smart thermostats, and precision robotics simply…
S1E13 What happens when edge computing with AI comes to the shop floor?
Edge computing is the logical extension of the smart sensor technology which drastically improved control of manufacturing processes in the 1980s and ‘90s. Moving the computational burden down to the…
S1E12 Why gallium nitride is the next big thing in semiconductors
Wide band gap semiconductors like gallium nitride appear to be a case where you can have your cake and eat it too. With a high breakdown voltage, and a higher switching frequency compared to silicon,…
S1E11 New materials for safer, better surgical procedures
Minimally invasive, catheter-based surgical procedures have drastically improved outcomes and recovery times in critical procedures such as heart valve replacement, and as the technology advances,…
S1E10 Still waiting for that personal humanoid robot? It’s coming.
In 1962, an animated sitcom debuted on television called the Jetsons. It predicted a future with extensive automation of every aspect of life, from cleaning the floors to operating factories. Much of…
S1E9 Electric actuators were predicted to replace fluid power. What happened?
20 years ago, many mechanical engineering experts predicted that hydraulics were dead. Rapid advancements in electric linear and rotary actuators promised an oil-less future, with cleaner, quieter…
S1E6 Electrification delivers sustainability to off-highway applications
This episode is brought to you by Parker.Sustainability is no longer marketing hype, it’s a fundamental part of the way machines are engineered in the 21st century. The electric vehicle revolution…
S1E5 How digital is digital manufacturing in 2025?
Computer-aided manufacturing has been around in one form or another since the 1960s, but the ability to program CNC equipment was only the beginning. Today, manufacturers are expected to aggregate,…
S1E3 The truth about AI in manufacturing
Engineering.com senior editor Michael Ouellette covers global manufacturing, including the hottest topic today, artificial intelligence. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Ouellete is skeptical,…
S1E2 Will simulation replace engineers?
Today’s advanced design software often includes the capability to do advanced computational tasks that ere traditionally done by physical testing. The original engineering methodology was always…
S1E1 What’s the state-of-the-art in additive manufacturing?
It’s been said that additive manufacturing is the newest 25-year-old technology in industry. The science-fiction quality of complex part making from powder or liquid precursors does seem like magic,…
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