Festo’s Dr. Ansgar Kriwet talks about why automation is complicated, and how design teams can improve the experience. At the celebration marking Festo’s 50 th anniversary in the United States, Festo ...

Smart manufacturing is evolving beyond traditional automation toward autonomous "lights-out" factories where digital twins ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in ...

The pace of product design, development, and manufacturing is accelerating like never before, and consumers are demanding more from their products. Many products, like coffee makers and even doorbells ...

The integration of generative AI (GenAI) into tools such as cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) products are driving dynamic transformation in the industrial automation space. The emergence of ...

Since the 1970s, safety has been a part of automation and motion control. The problem has always been that many safety regulations are out of date and safety methods resulted in basic “stop” or ...

In using AI tools to design chips, Samsung is the latest company tossing its hat into the growing arena. The company has apparently harnessed new AI processing tools from the Electronic Design ...

To start, I am not a career analog design engineer. I have worked for years as an analog/RF design engineer, including a stint in analog/mixed-signal IC design and layout. I also studied control ...

Silicon photonics is a transformative technology that will have a major impact on system architectures in future IC design applications. Already a major solution for Datacom applications and emerging ...