Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

To get its engineers thinking about design for assembly back in the 1980s, Westinghouse made a video about a product optimized for assembly: the IBM Proprinter. The technology may be dated, but the ...

Peptides that self-assemble into nanostructures are of tremendous interest for biological, medical, photonic and nanotechnological applications. The enormous sequence space that is available from 20 ...

In this video, learn how to build an easy shop table ideal for use with an x-carve CNC, as an outfeed table for a table saw, or as an assembly table. The design is easily adjustable to fit specific ...

Advanced packaging continues to promise improved form factor, cost, performance, and functionality compared to the traditional transistor scaling on SoCs. This is done by integrating multiple dies on ...

[Will Cogley] makes eyeballs; hey, everyone needs a hobby, and we don’t judge. Like all his animatronics, his eyeballs are wondrous mechanisms, but they do tend toward being a bit complex, especially ...