Using ball splines as a lens, this collection examines how component choices connect to the broader engineering decisions that shape complete linear motion systems.

The Cyber Resilience Act is driving a major shift in machine design, requiring manufacturers to think beyond hardware and ...

Embedded computing and optimized machine learning models make PdM viable in small, distributed and cost-sensitive systems.

Discover how Haworth, an office furniture manufacturer, implemented a contactless energy transfer solution that supported its ...

Realization of autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with machine learning (ML). The decisions an AI system makes from instant to instant will depend on its perception ...

Tight engineering tolerances and zero margins for failure make bearings the essential component that underpins the reliability and operational integrity of advanced technological systems. Any failure ...

Machine Design distills the cutting-edge landscape of advanced manufacturing through the eyes of multidisciplinary engineers, covering technical insights on the foundational and emerging principles of ...

In medicine and biomechanics, movements of limbs and other body parts toward or away from the center line of the body (a line that runs up and down the center of the human body) are termed adduction ...

Flexible shafts are mechanical power-transmission devices used to transmit rotary motion through bends and curves. They can be routed over, under, and around obstacles which would be otherwise ...

Improved turbine blades have been critical for many of the advances in jet engines over the last 50 years and will hopefully continue to push the envelope in aerospace industry, as well as in turbines ...

Engineers at NASA first developed the rolamite bearing as a way to get motion with less friction than possible with roller bearings and to eliminate cogging. It was to replace leadscrews and linear ...

A soft starter has thyristors in its main circuit by which it adjusts motor voltage. Motors that run typical industrial applications employing conveyors, pumps, blowers, and compressors all have one ...