Several industries commonly place cabinets full of control, communication, and monitoring electronics outdoors. Telecom companies, electric utilities, as well as municipalities that need to safely manage
Shoulder screws’ versatility comes from the range of components that can install on their unthreaded shoulders and from the variety of options designers have to customize dimensions, materials, and features
Injection molding small and microscopic parts can involve different requirements than those cited by manufacturers. Micromolder Accumold tested various resins in a standard mold to see how they performed.
Machine guards must not become their own hazards or exacerbate existing hazards. Analyze designs to eliminate guards that can be left off, those that fail easily and catastrophically, and those that fail to prevent hazards.
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles are taking over for glass in the single-serve wine and barbecue sauce markets. The lightweight bottles save shipping costs, don’t break, and are more easily recycled.
Pharmaceuticals packaged by blow molding, sterile filling, and hermetic sealing, which require minimal operator intervention, are less prone to contamination and can have ergonomic features like droppers and twist-off caps.
It’s surprising how little lubricant oil-film sleeve bearings really need. Millions of bearings in electric motors, machine tools, pumps, and industrial fans run without a hitch on lubricant feeds that can’t develop full hydrodynamic films of oil
