A digital thread approach to engineering encourages collaboration among engineering disciplines and leads to a simulation-driven digital twin. By adopting a digital thread approach to engineering, ...

The job of an engineer hasn’t changed in the 90 years since Machine Design first published. The role is still to improve the performance and lower the cost of problem-solving devices, as well as the ...

This article appeared in Machine Design and has been published here with permission. An important step in an engineer’s career is obtaining a professional engineering license. The license, and the PE ...

This series appeared in Machine Design and has been published here with permission. In this four-part series, Tricia Hatley, immediate past president of NSPE and a life-long engineer, outlines a ...

Can you design a mechanism that will trace out the shape of a heart? How about the shape of a moon, or a star? Mechanism ...

Factors influencing the proportioning of machine elements: stresses, deformations, and failure criteria as applied to shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears. Design of Elements is a required course ...

MagneMotion, Inc. has worked with Tek-Matic and Accelerated Machine Design and Engineering (AMD&E) to provide an easily customizable precision assembly automation system that improves productivity and ...

A little about my career path: I worked as a facilities engineer in the oil and gas industry for the first few years out of college. About a year and a half ago, I switched industries and began ...

Design engineers have long struggled with manual calculations and spreadsheets to properly size servo motors and drives for new machines. A recently launched update of Mitsubishi Electric’s Motorizer ...