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Know your thrust bearings

Operating conditions and design constraints dictate which type makes sense.

DC Motors - Your Complete DC Motor Drive Systems

With the largest consolidated portfolio of miniature and micro motor drive system technologies, MicroMo specializes in the design...

Giant fans of wind energy

Windmills aren't what they used to be but then neither is the search for renewable energy sources.

The Basics of Electromagnetic Clutches and Brakes
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Electromagnetic clutches and brakes use electrical activation to transfer mechanical torque. Designers can customize the units with friction materials, air gaps, and overexcitation techniques.

Throw out the textbooks, diesel airplanes are here
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A diesel engine developed in Germany and installed in Austrian airframes could change all our notions about designing piston-powered aircraft.

Flexible gears bolster wind-turbine reliability
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Novel design increases torque capacity of planetary gears up to 50%.

SCHMIDT Technology

A wide variety of documents, drawings, software demonstrations and manuals are available on line.

Tension in timing-belt drives

A urethane timing belt moves samples
into position in this CAD simulation of an automated blood sampling machine.

Keeping Thrust Bearings Cool
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Engineers can keep thrust bearings cool by tweaking oil-groove count, taper geometry, and pivot location. Here’s how design changes affect temperature.

Webcast presenting the basics of the Direct Gear Design

In order to stay competitive, you must continue to create great products faster and cheaper.

Plain Bearings Outperform Rolling-Element Bearings

Plain bearings can outperform rolling-element bearings in strength, cost, and durability for many applications.

Avoiding Stick-Slip Chatter in Low-Speed Bearings

Flexible rotors and thin lubricant films lead to noise and vibration.

Flomerics
Speeding mechanical design with Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Until recently, high costs and difficult-to-use programs kept computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mostly in the hands of research, academia, and large OEMs

Getting up to speed with wrap-spring clutch/brakes

No-slip clutch/brakes keep loads and drives synced up.

Beating Plowshares Into Dragsters

How do you keep the boy on the farm after he's won the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) championship?

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