Some of the biggest challenges facing consumer packaged goods manufacturers include product proliferation, the need to provide more product options and variants to the market, life cycle reductions, ...

Over the past decades, technological advances have fueled great innovation in a wide range of fields. Emerging and rapidly ...

The integration of adaptive machining and reverse engineering has emerged as a pivotal approach in the maintenance and regeneration of aero‐engine blades, components that are critical to both ...

Process control is moving forward as quickly as data collection and processing can carry it, and a recent research effort demonstrated how fast and flexible, and adaptive, machining operations can be.

SixDigma is a custom-manufacturing business in Mason, Ohio, that specializes in “advanced integration of CAD, CAM, and CNC systems to solve complex machining problems in aerospace applications.” The ...

The most recent class of control techniques to be used are collectively referred to as adaptive control. Although the basic algorithms have been known for decades, they have not been applied in many ...

Researchers at Germany’s FAU have created shape-shifting materials by linking molecular machines into three-dimensional structures that respond to light. The technology could lead to intelligent ...