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Comau Enters the Small-Robot Segment with Racer3
Small robots are beginning to handle tasks inside automotive production facilities that require human-like dexterity.
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Hyundai Enhances NVH with 2016 Tucson’s Re-Engineered Suspension—including ‘World First’ Dual-Member Damper Housing
No area of the third-generation Tucson crossover utility vehicle was left untouched by Hyundai engineers, but...
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Ford Researches 'Intelligent' Lighting Systems
Ford is developing a camera-based advanced technology lighting system that can automatically widen dipped beams at road junctions and roundabouts. The company is also researching infrared...
Product Briefs Propulsion
DEF Filters
Clean Solutions, a division of Donaldson Co., has introduced a convenient, effective solution to deliver clean diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) to protect selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems on vehicles and equipment. The...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Conveyor Coating System
mycon GmbH recently implemented and commissioned the first coating device that it fully developed during the past several years, for a large industrial company in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The customer’s inquiry led to the...
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Ford Tests Cylinder Deactivation on Its 1.0-L EcoBoost Triple
If the words “Ford Mondeo powered by 1.0-L 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine” sound a bit incongruent, now consider that the company is researching cylinder deactivation for its...
Global Vehicles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Lighter Volvo XC90 Is Engineered for "Premium Cool"
Håkan Ivarsson, Volvo Car Corp.’s Technical Programs’ Director, stood next to the all-new XC90 during the car's global introduction and said: “This car represents the future of...
News Energy
Battling the High Cost of EV Batteries
Today’s electrochemical battery is like a latter-day philosopher’s stone—just insert and inanimate objects spring to life. Nothing else in our technological arsenal can compare.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Low-Thermal-Expansion Epoxy
EpoxySet Inc. has released the EB-315 low-thermal-expansion epoxy as part of its line of low-expansion/thermally conductive products. The versatile material can be used as an adhesive or encapsulant for...
News Electronics & Computers
Lightweighting Focus for TE's Connectivity Solutions
TE Connectivity recently announced two new aerospace connectivity solutions that offer substantial weight savings: its COPALUM Lite sealed terminals and splices, and its Raychem INSTALITE...
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Army Develops Technology to Intercept Drones
As drone technology gains greater public attention, along with its potential for hostile action against American targets, Army engineers are adapting ongoing research to counter aerial systems that...
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Researchers Embed Sensors Inside 3-D Printed Parts
In an effort to better monitor the structural health of military equipment, Picatinny Arsenal and engineers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst have recently...
INSIDER Defense
World’s First Full-Color, Flexible, Skin-like Display Developed
Imagine a soldier who can change the color and pattern of his camouflage uniform from woodland green to desert tan at will. Or an office worker who could do the same with his...
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Jaguar Design Director on the Shape of Things to Come
Ian Callum admits that he was petrified when he joined Jaguar. He knew it was no longer the company he had admired since he was a kid—no longer dynamic, modern, youthful: “I thought,...
News Manned Systems
Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
Q&A Transportation
Mitsubishi's U.S. Teams More Involved with Vehicle Development
At the beginning of 2015, Nathan Berg assumed the title of Senior Manager for Long-Range Product Planning at Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA). In this newly created...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Mitsubishi Electric Shows New FLEXConnect Technologies
Hand gesture transfer of information from the center console screen to the head-up display or instrument cluster display is a featured capability in a Mitsubishi Electric demonstration...
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Accelerated Testing of Embedded Software Code Leverages AUTOSAR and Virtual Validation
The use of the AUTOSAR standard is well known for its business benefits, but it also presents many improvements for the software engineering side of the...
Technology Report Software
Road-Surface Modeling Aims to Support Autonomous Driving
Some chief executives are enthusiastically fond of stating that their companies already possess much of the technology that would, in theory, allow them to introduce autonomous...
News Transportation
Cat Pipelayers Offer Power and Comfort to Operators
Independent, variable-speed winches for the boom and hook provide precise control, and an enhanced counterweight system ensures a low center of gravity in Caterpillar's new PL72, PL83, and...
News Electronics & Computers
John Deere Electronic Solutions' Modular Inverter for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
John Deere Electronic Solutions developed its PD400 modular inverter for high voltage/high power hybrid electric off-highway and heav-duty vehicles. The...
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Komatsu America Adds to Intelligent Machine Lineup
The long track, low ground pressure D65PXi-18 introduced recently by Komatsu America Corp. was designed specifically for functionality in soft or wet conditions, offering improved stability...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Two-Stroke Engines
Ewatt AeroSpace Company (Wuhan, China) has developed a new series of lightweight, powerful and reliable two-stroke engines for both UAV and light-manned aircraft. The engines are being designed and developed by aircraft...
Articles Transportation
Making Sense of Autonomy
Fully autonomous vehicles are just a sliver of the industry, but semi-autonomous technologies are paving the way for mainstream adoption. Strategies for sensing the vehicle’s surroundings will play an important...
Articles Power
The Complicated Future of Off-Highway Engines
The latest twist for providers of engines for off-highway use is the recently proposed Stage V emissions regulations covering European Union countries. EU regulators will limit the allowable...
Articles Transportation
Life-cycle Planning — Design and Calibration for Ultimate Efficiency
Extending the life cycle of products in the off-highway industry provides benefits to OEMs, purchasers, end users, and general society. Before Big Data technologies...
Articles Power
Combustion Modeling in Heavy-duty Diesels
Diesel engines have found their way into most heavy-duty applications in the stationary, construction, industrial, and agriculture industries. They have a high power density and can easily operate on a...
News Energy
Alternative Starter
Mitsubishi Electric has launched its new, "full-featured" Diamond Power S60 (DPS60) starter as an upgrade for Freightliner and Western Star trucks using the Detroit DD15 and DD16 engines. Available through all North...
Articles Test & Measurement
Synthetic Vision Guidance Systems Giving 2D data a 3D perspective
Synthetic Vision (SV) displays replace the pilot’s traditional 2D primary flight display (PFD) with a 3D perspective view display. The 3D SV perspective display is rendered...
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