1.1 What is friction? Take this everyday example: when a coffee mug rests on a flat table, the kinetic frictional force is zero. There is no force trying to move the mug across the table, so there is ...

Retailers are striving to make 2024 the year for frictionless shopping. To do that, they must incorporate the latest technologies that people need to do their jobs without interrupting any lines of ...

A research team led by Prof. Tian-Bao Ma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University has proposed a novel strategy to reduce friction and wear by inducing dynamic electronic ...

One of the key priorities in health IT today should be to make sure technology strengthens – not distracts from – the human connection in care delivery, says Duncan Grodack, CIO at Altamonte Springs, ...

When I began my career in the pro-audiovisual industry two and a half decades ago, innovation was steady but slow. New AV solutions were conceived, developed, launched and matured over several years.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving parts, from vehicle ...

Examples of the main engine components on which vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are working to reduce friction components include the following (Truett 2013): Smaller, low friction bearings: ...

Shawn is the VP of Marketing for PandaDoc overseeing all intertwined marketing efforts to scale the company to its next inflection point. The past two years have shown us a lot about who we are as ...

Recently I was invited to talk at the conference considered the “Davos of Procurement” about design choices and how to remove friction–one of the core ideas from my book The Human Element. The ...