This one-day, FREE machine design forum provides an overview of mechatronics embedded system design technologies for increasing innovation and lowering development cost and risk. Explore techniques for mechatronics-oriented design with SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion, National Instruments LabVIEW, and Wind River VxWorks; virtual machine prototyping and electromechanical simulation; sensing and actuation; graphical programming for processors, FPGAs, and digital signal processing; and reference architectures for combining control, monitoring, and data logging in a single embedded design.

Registration includes lunch and refreshments.

Who Should Attend?

Designers of industrial machinery, equipment, vehicles, or other electromechanical devices with moving parts and electronically controlled actuators can benefit from this forum. Engineers using programmable logic controllers or single board computers, or those designing custom embedded systems, also may be interested the forum.

Topic Overview

Join machine design engineers and industry experts to explore cutting-edge design technologies and discuss the business challenges, opportunities, and technology factors impacting modern machine builders. Learn about the latest mechatronics design automation techniques that can give your company a competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging global marketplace.

Attend the Embedded Technology Forum for Machine Designers to see how SolidWorks, National Instruments, and Wind River are collaborating to help machine builders develop more innovative and higher-quality machines and tackle increasing design complexity and competitive pressures. At this session, examine:

• Mechatronics development techniques for shorter, lower-risk development cycles
• Virtual machine prototyping technologies for improving quality, reliability, and performance
• Graphical system design tools to lower the cost of embedded design

Key Focus Areas

• Techniques for adding monitoring and data-logging capabilities to your machine
• High-level graphical programming for machine control
• Hands-on embedded system design workshop (no prior programming experience required)

Agenda

• Morning Keynote - Mechatronics Technologies Converge to Lower the Cost of Embedded Design
• Essential Technologies for Electromechanical Design and Prototyping
• Essential Technologies for Mechatronics System Deployment
• Lunch - Machine Design Industry Experts Panel Discussion

Afternoon Hands-On Workshop Track

• Part 1: Graphical Embedded System Design Fundamentals
• Part 2: Machine Control and Industrial Networking
• Part 3: Monitoring and Data Logging

Afternoon System Design Track

• Reference Architecture Designs for Highly Innovative Machines
• Software Development for Combined Control, Monitoring, and Logging
• Algorithm Engineering for Machine Condition Monitoring and Advanced Control

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May 10, 2007 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

June 5, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois

June 14, 2007 - Santa Clara, California

Future events planned in Boston, Munich, Milan, and more.

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