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Category: Design & Planning


Design & Planning, Process

US puts $3bn into packaging development and manufacturing

November 22, 2023

Via: Electronics Weekly

“Within a decade, we envision that America will both manufacture and package the world’s most sophisticated chips,” says Laurie Locascio director of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “this means both onshoring a high-volume advanced packaging industry […]


Design & Planning, Energy, Industry Focus Areas, Process

Scientists design cobalt-free battery for cleaner, greener power

October 19, 2023

Via: Phys.org

High-capacity and reliable rechargeable batteries are a critical component of many devices and even modes of transport. They play a key role in the shift to a greener world. A wide variety of elements are used in their production, including […]


Design & Planning, Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Process

Alfa Chemistry: Custom Design and Manufacturing Takes Organs-On-Chips to the Next Level

July 17, 2023

Via: Manufacturing Tomorrow

In a groundbreaking move to revolutionize the field of biomedical research, Alfa Chemistry recently announced the launch of its highly anticipated custom design and manufacturing services for organs-on-chips. This cutting-edge technology provides scientists and researchers with an innovative platform to […]


Design & Planning, Process

Pulsiv launches reference designs

March 2, 2023

Via: Electronics Weekly

Pulsiv’s OSMIUM MCUs and AC-DC front-end circuit configurations are already available and the reference designs aim to accelerate R&D. The reference designs offer 75W (85W peak) & 100W (150W peak) output power with universal mains input and 48V output. The […]


Design & Planning, Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Process

Why medical device designers need to become more agile — and how they can do it

January 26, 2023

Via: MedTech Dive

As medical device companies strive to remain competitive and agile in today’s fast-paced world, they must center manufacturing in business optimization plans while embracing a design-to-value approach from the start. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the healthcare industry’s transformation, driving faster […]


Design & Planning, Process

Sakuu Selects Porsche Consulting for Design of Commercial-Scale Battery Manufacturing Plants

January 23, 2023

Via: Manufacturing Tomorrow

Sakuu, pioneer of 3D printed Swift Print™ solid-state battery technology, today announces that it has selected Porsche Consulting (“Porsche Consulting, Inc.”), a subsidiary of the automotive manufacturer Porsche, to lead all aspects of design for its planned global gigafactories. The […]


Design & Planning, Process, R & D

Digital Solutions and Sustainability Prompt the Global Building Management Systems Market Growth

December 28, 2022

Via: PR Newswire

Increasing industry convergence and the emergence of innovative technologies revolutionize the global building management system (BMS) industry. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the global building management systems market finds that the need to ensure occupants’ safety and comfort encourages […]


Design & Planning, Process

Sustainability and Plastic Injection Molding in the Automotive Industry

December 21, 2022

Via: Manufacturing Tomorrow

Consumer demands are shifting the attention of the automotive industry—an impact the world will soon notice in 2023. According to the recent Automotive Ecosystem Vision Study by Zebra Technologies, car buyers now primarily seek sustainability and eco-friendliness, leading to an […]


Design & Planning, Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Process

Product innovation in medtech

December 17, 2022

Via: Today's Medical Developments

In the era of value-based care, providers across the care spectrum are being measured (and compensated) on patient health outcomes. While nobody is arguing with the premise of that focus, many providers are struggling to adapt to the new measurement […]


Design & Planning, Process

Ford, China’s CATL Mull Workaround for New US Battery Plant

December 15, 2022

Via: Transport Topics

Ford Motor Co. and China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. are considering building a battery manufacturing plant in Michigan in a complex arrangement designed to reap new tax benefits without running afoul of U.S.-China political sensitivities. The state has emerged […]


Design & Planning, Process

Agile Analog adds six blocks for IoT design

October 21, 2022

Via: Electronics Weekly

Arranged in six blocks, they wrap round the customer’s choice of processor core and memory to provide all the vital analog functions required to interface between the digital world of the processor and the analog real world. Barry Paterson, Agile […]


Design & Planning, Process

Avoid “Over-Engineering” In Machining Parts Design

September 19, 2022

Via: Manufacturing Tomorrow

Over engineering actually refers to and is associated with inefficient products, services, infrastructure, buildings, facilities and machines, whose development, maintenance and operation costs are too high. We can name the above items as over writing, over drawing, or over engineering, […]


Design & Planning, Process, R & D

Smart Manufacturing: How Audi Is Designing Production of the Future

August 4, 2022

Via: Metrology and Quality News

Audi is setting up fully networked, highly efficient, and sustainable production. The goal is to design a resilient, agile, and flexible value chain to meet future challenges successfully. These include a growing diversity of variants, the transition to electromobility, the […]


Design & Planning, Process, Regulations

US Design Companies Drop Objections To Chips Act

July 19, 2022

Via: Electronics Weekly

Which is why the US Chips Act may get passed this week. Maybe even today. Up to now, non-manufacturing chip design companies have been playing silly buggers with the Chips Act asking for hand-outs when the whole purpose of the […]


Design & Planning, Process

Samsung sampling 16Gb GDDR6 DRAM

July 14, 2022

Via: Electronics Weekly

Samsung has begun sampling the industry’s first 16Gb Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) DRAM featuring 24Gbps processing speeds. Built on Samsung’s third-generation 10-nanometer-class (1z) process using EUV technology, the new memory is designed to significantly advance the graphics performance […]


Design & Planning, Process

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers to Invest $5 Billion in New Texas Plant

June 27, 2022

Via: The Wall Street Journal

GlobalWafers Co., 6488 5.49%▲ a Taiwan-based technology company, unveiled a plan on Monday to build a $5 billion factory in Sherman, Texas, to manufacture silicon wafers, a key material used in the production of semiconductors. The investment, which would receive […]


Design & Planning, Process

Foxconn Starts Building a Plant for Electric-Vehicle Batteries in Taiwan

June 15, 2022

Via: The Wall Street Journal

Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group started building its first plant to produce electric-car batteries Wednesday, the contract electronics manufacturer’s latest step into the booming electric-vehicle industry. Foxconn said it plans to invest about 6 billion New Taiwan dollars, equivalent to about […]


Design & Planning, Process

Mitsubishi Electric to Establish New Factory in India for Factory Automation Control System Products

June 7, 2022

Via: Manufacturing Tomorrow

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will invest approximately 2.2 billion Indian rupees, or 3.1 billion yen, in its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. to establish a new factory in India. Expected to start operations in December 2023, […]


Design & Planning, Process

Building Bikes from Recycled Plastic

June 6, 2022

Via: Design News

Igus has created a bicycle made entirely of recycled plastic. The company is taking the bundle of engineering concepts and components for building plastic bicycles and making it available to all bicycle manufacturers via the igus bike platform. The first […]


Design & Planning, Logistics, Process

Survey Says Supply-Chain Issues Remain Key Hurdle For Design Engineers

April 27, 2022

Via: Design News

As product design gets more complicated, design engineering has become a more complicated, multi-faceted task. But there’s also good news for engineers, as design tools are improving and engineers have been able to keep pace with faster time-to-market cycles. Those […]