What are the 3 types of non-contact presence sensing?

Control Design: My first exposure to proximity switches was after college as a design-and-build engineer at a fiber optics plant. The switches were end-of-travel and home switches on linear slides of a production machine. I then noticed that they were being used for door-lock indication, speed detection of flywheels and gears and many other use cases throughout the different manufacturing lines.

What is a stepper motor, and how is it used in industrial applications?

Control Design: Control systems use stepper motors in various applications, and controls engineers might have to replace a stepper motor in the field. Understanding how a stepper motor works and how it causes motion can be advantageous if the controls engineer needs to specify a motor for replacement or specify one for an application.

Axial Flux Motors: Understanding Their Advantages and Application Uses

Power & Motion Tech: Electrification of various vehicle and mobile machinery applications has introduced a range of technologies to the market, including different types of electric motors which play an important role in powering many of the systems in an electric vehicle. Axial flux motors are one such electric motor technology increasingly being utilized in hybrid- and full-electric systems.

The circus, elevated

Performance | santafenewmexican.com: The centerpiece of Cirque Mechanics’ new touring production, Zephyr: A Whirlwind of Circus, is a 20-foot windmill. Chris Lashua, creative director and co-founder of the circus, likes to build such things. This windmill is also a portable crane on a pillar, designed as a base for various feats of daring by the acrobats in the show.

5 Modern Rube Goldberg Machines That Are Brilliantly Nonsensical

mymodernmet.com: Remember the breakfast machine in Peewee's Big Adventure? Or perhaps “The Snoozatron” device in Wallace and Gromit? These wacky inventions—haphazardly built to perform simple tasks—aren’t just designed for movie sets. They’re real, and they're known as Rube Goldberg machines.

Modern hoists give lift to prehistoric plants

Crane and Hoist Canada: The team at Chicago Flyhouse is accustomed to handling unusual and difficult projects. The 2019 NCAA Final Four basketball tournament in Minnesota required the fabrication of a flame-retardant synthetic velour to stretch across the perimeter of the 1.75 million square foot venue at U.S. Bank Stadium.

How Precise is That Part? Know Your GD&T

Hackaday: How does a design go from the computer screen to something you hold in your hand? Not being able to fully answer this question is a huge risk in manufacturing because . One of the important tools engineers use to ensure success is Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).

CADshare uses Autodesk Forge to develop a better way to sell, find, and buy Spare Parts for Mission-critical Machines

It is Alive in the Lab: Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to use our web services, we use Forge for our development of the cloud-based services that we offer. You can leverage Forge in the same ways that we do.

Constructing A Building-Sized Draw Bot

makezine.com: If you are looking for a quick way to paint your house or a make a retina-resolution-reprint of your favourite artwork, you probably have to skip this post. The machine we built is large, low-res and veeerrrrryyyy slow. It is also big, bad-ass, cheap and out of control, something that can be built in a couple of afternoons, has an almost mesmerising and meditative tranquility while seen in action – and (re)produces great (ok, read: “makes unique”) works of art.