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Bellows Technology

Jim Barkand from Servometer demonstrates three different bellows construction techniques to Lee Teschler of MACHINE DESIGN. 8:23

New ASME Y14.5 - 2009 Standards for GD&T
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The new ASME Y14.5, 2009 standard on dimensioning and tolerancing reflects a culmination of effort extending over 15 years.

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Precision Plastic Components – Micromolding is More Than Small Parts

OEM design projects are increasingly requiring tighter tolerances, smaller or lighter components and high reliability/quality. These are challenges that must be addressed quickly by engineers in order to get the final products to market on time, even if the solution is custom in nature.

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...

Get Reliable Results From Rubber Test Data
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Rubbers’ large deformation, contact, and viscoelastic behaviors make getting test data to support a model even more important.

Shoulder-Fillet Stress Calculations Clarified

The authors of "Shoulder-fillet stresses finesse" clarify stress-calculation procedures.

Direct Digital Manufacturing: Impact and Opportunity

At the departmental level, justification for fixtures can be quite simple. Those that use direct digital manufacturing...

Orr on Engineering: Collective IQ: Digital technology Could Upgrade Our Smarts

Engelbart is known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but, as he says, that innovation was incidental to a much larger vision of collective intelligence

Webcast presenting the basics of the Direct Gear Design

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

Scanning for ideas: A space-age refrigerator

When NASA needed to cool a space-based spectrometer that will measure X-rays coming from distant astronomical objects to 0.065°K, it turned to adiabatic demagnetization.

Engineering Handbook In Excel
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The engineering handbook Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain has been computerized to run in Excel.

Better bonds

The secret to strong, reliable adhesive bonding is to start with good clean surfaces.

Study focuses on near-perfect lens

A study by Dr. Tom Mackay of the University of Edinburgh and Professor Akhlesh Lakhtakia of Penn State may solve one of the great challenges in optics and electromagnetics.

Looking back in time 50 Years Ago In MACHINE DESIGN, November 1955

Midget servomotor developed for aircraft: A two-phase servomotor developed by General Electric is believed to be the smallest currently used on aircraft.

The attraction of Ferrofluid Bearings

Magnetic-fluid technology brings compact, low-friction, self-contained bearings capable of speeds to 30,000 rpm.

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