The PTE September coverage in print and online examines condition monitoring advancements for bearings. We recently discussed some of these innovat...

Bosch Rexroth's Factory of the Future Aims to Improve Production Processes One Application at a Time.

Digitalization is increasingly transforming mechanical engineering and manufacturing technologies, bringing with it not only unparalleled control and flexibility over production systems but so much more.

Data is fast becoming one of the most important assets for companies throughout industry. In particular, it holds the key for developing a new gene...

Shaping the Future of Manufacturing

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At the recently concluded Automate 2019 and Promat trade shows (held in Chicago in April), we saw a lot of new technology aimed at making factories more efficient and productive.

(Main image courtesy of Deutsche Messe, 2018) Hannover Messe 2019 will focus on the integration, digitization and interconnection of industrial ...

The complete Industry News section from the February 2019 issue of Power Transmission Engineering.

Heavy industry. The phrase conjures images of mines and steel mills, of huge caverns underground, of cavern-like factories, of oldline companies operating heavy-duty machines for hightorque work. That's the image of heavy industry. Today, though, there's also another image. It's of an operator walking a steel mill's floor, looking at his smartphone or his tablet.

The theme of this issue is integration. Mechanical components are being developed with embedded sensors. The components are talking to each other, sending information to the cloud and producing terabytes of big data to help manufacturers better understand their processes, predict problems and control costs.