Adapta Robotics grew out of a university competition team, and the Romanian startup identified electronics and retail as markets.

The recent trend from control systems vendors is the use of the term “architecture”.  This trend has become so pervasive that one major vendor changed the titles of it’s sales reps to “System Architects”.  That shift says a lot about the importance of control system architecture. Architecture is used when talking about the the design […]

(regarding the title, just think Bob Dylan’s “The Times They are a Changin”) Just as Computer Aided Design, CAD, has revolutionized the design process, it is growing in capability and impacting many other arenas of engineering. The first major extensions to CAD were integration of Finite Element Analysis, the ability to analyze loads on the […]

I think mechatronics generally begins with mechanical design.  That’s just my perspective, it may differ in your experience.   If its a power window in a car, a hard disk drive platter machine, a blender, an amusement park ride or display, a surgical robot, whatever.  They all start with mechanical design, performance goals and boundary […]

Machine builders can virtually prototype their machine control systems with LabVIEW and the NI SoftMotion Development Module for motion profile generation as well as mechanically simulate and detect collisions with SolidWorks and COSMOSMotion. Intense competition is putting pressure on machine builders to deliver machines with higher throughput, reduced operating cost, and increased safety. By Nipun […]

Why should you care? Because whatever the term “mechatronics” might mean to you, it affects so many aspects of our daily life. We’ve all seen commercials with a production floor full of welding robots making automobiles. Certainly automotive manufacturing would not be possible without numerically controlled machine tools, robots and much more. And the automotive […]