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Leland Teschler's Editoral: We Don’t Know How to Recreate Silicon Valley
Preseason football is on TV, the kids are getting ready for the school year, and theme parks are anticipating their final Labor Day crowds.
Nailing Product Requirements
To thoroughly gather customer requirements and get it right the first time takes teamwork and patience.
Tiny Motors Make Big Move
With only one moving part, piezoelectric motors one-up conventional motors, gears, and drive screws in miniature applications.
Secrets of Accurate Machining
Linear encoders keep their accuracy when things start to heat up.
Bearings That Lube for Less
Could self-lubricating bearings with a wide temperature range actually save you money?
Selecting the Best Conveyor
What you should know before speccing your next conveyor.
Monitoring Pneumatics Makes All the Difference
A new conditionmonitoring system lets manufacturers watch the performance and energy consumption of air-powered equipment.
Invention Mythology 101
There is a lot of misinformation circulating about patents. Blind belief in IP fables can be expensive.
How to Make a Robot Path in 10 Seconds
Software that works inside CAD lets users design for manufacturing with robotics in mind.
Mass Production Out, Mass Customization In
New software and rapid manufacturing foster custom products on demand.
Safety in Automation
New technology and global standards help ensure a safe workplace, boost productivity, and reduce environmental impact.
Berke on Safety: Why a Window Screen is Not a Safety Device
Every year in the United States nearly 5,000 toddlers fall out of windows, resulting in casualties up to and including spinal injury, paralysis, and death. About 20 children die annually from this type of fall.
Publisher's Comment: Eighty-Years Old and Completely-up-to Date
Machine Design has been serving the needs of design engineers for almost 80 years.
Leland Tecshler's Editorial: What’s hot? Not ethanol
This special issue looks at some of the technologies and industrial themes that are eliciting a lot of interest in the technical community.
Industrial Design: Design the Dyson Way
An art student created a revolutionary vacuum cleaner without knowing a thing about CAD , CFD, or why his idea wouldn’t work. What’s the lesson for other inventors?
Heading Off a Kilowatt Crunch
With the stroke of a pen, legislators have forced electric motors to get more efficient.
Just what is Sustainability?
Is it just another buzzword in the environmental movement’s lexicon? Or is it a concept engineers and designers should know more about?
New From the Fab Labs: Lightweight but Superstrong Parts
A rapid-manufacturing technique fabricates 3D-lattice structures that can replace solid metals and even encourages bone ingrowth in medical implants.
Leland Teschler's Editoral What’s Tough About Training
This issue’s emphasis on motion control prompts some reflection on how people learn about motion technology.
Robosoldier
Body amplifiers are getting closer to reality.
Architectures for Economical Motion
Motion-control costs have more to do with what’s needed to hook up components than with the motor and controller.
Resolution Resolved
Surprise! There’s no guarantee a stage can make moves on the order of its resolution specs.
Torque Telemetry Goes Digital
Digital RF technology leads the way to more accurate noncontact measurement of torque.
Berke on Safety: It Happened. Now Investigate the Accident.
It’s 3:15 on a Thursday afternoon. You’re answering one last e-mail before heading out for your tee time.
Leland Teschler's Editorial: Mass-Transit Myths
Regular readers of our letters column may have noticed a discussion about people movers and mass transit.