February 7, 2008

Before it cuts any metal or stitches upholstery, medical- furniture manufacturer Famed Zywiec in Poland uses Inventor, a CAD software suite from Autodesk Inc. in San Rafael, Calif.

Companies that merge IT and controls-engineering groups are becoming more efficient and shortening their project timelines, according to a study by Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee.

Developers at drum maker Head Drums in Lakewood, Colo., devised a new attachment method after analyzing how drum heads are typically attached to shells.

Engineers at McKeon Products Inc., Warren Mich., came up with a new design and 16-cavity slide mold that would let them manufacture silicone earplugs for swimmers.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory have built a device, a counterrotating- ring receiver reactor recuperator, or CR5 for short, that uses sunlight to break a carbon-oxygen bond in CO2 to form CO and oxygen.

Misumi USA, Inc. will display its newest products for factory automation at the upcoming South Pack show in Charlotte, NC on March 19-20.

LMS International, an engineering innovation company is supporting the world premiere of American artist Jonathan Schipper's "The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle," a real-time, five-day car crash taking place during the Artefact Festival in Leuven, Belgium.

For prototyping plastic parts, fused-deposition modeling (FDM) builds stronger components than any other major additive technology.

I normally don’t comment on the editorials, but your Dec. 13 column (“Finally, the truth about engineering jobs) is 100% on target.

Radiological dirty bombs pose a considerable threat, especially in metropolitan areas with dense populations.

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