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Leland Teschler's Editorial: The Digital World Could Have Been a Different Place
A lot of headlines these days are devoted to the travails of U.S. companies that once dominated the markets they serve.
Manufacturing is a High Note for Aluminum Guitar Maker
Bass electric-guitar player Jim Normandy once shopped around for an archtop guitar — an acoustic guitar with a full body and distinctive arched top.
Machine Vision Industry Focus: New Way to Look at Machine Vision
Advances in neural methods now let vision systems recognize parts and handle situations that once befuddled ordinary techniques.
Machine Vision Industry Focus: Putting Light to Work
Special fiber optics now let spectroscopy migrate out of the laboratory and into inhospitable environments.
A Better Way to Damp Machine Vibrations
Constant-naturalfrequency isolators outperform conventional mounts and cost less than activedamping systems.
Pneumatics Reference Guide: Soft Actuators Tackle Hard Jobs
Air actuators shake off contamination that can destroy traditional cylinders.
Pneumatics Reference Guide: Making Air Systems Clean & Quiet
Coalescing mufflers help pneumatics meet government guidelines.
Leland Teschler's Editorial: Manufacturing Woes in the News
Unemployment is rising, the economy is slowing down, goods makers are hurting, a real-estate bubble is popping, and there’s a big loss of manufacturing jobs.
Engineering in Germany
Germany German engineers have a reputation for having more practical backgrounds than their American counterparts, but does that translate into more-fulfilling careers?
More Controllers, Fewer Cables
Miniature control modules mounted directly to each positioning axis makes for fewer and shorter cables.
Shaking up vibration models
Here’s a better way to look at vibration-isolation systems.
Body Armor for Hydraulic Hose
A leaky hose can shoot fluid at bulletlike velocities. Here’s how to better-protect workers.
CFD Reveals Less Work
Fluid-flow software is easier to learn and use than its outdated reputation would have you think.
Motion Reference Guide: Software Keeps Linear-Stage Integration Straight
Design software has progressed to the point where it can take over many aspects of linear-actuator selection and simulation.
Leland Teschler's Editorial: Mathematics of Financial Chaos
Computer graphic mavens are probably quite familiar with Benoit Mandelbrot.
The Candidates and Technology
Our presidential candidates’ views on technological issues of the day.
Bulletproof
Here’s how to keep hackers out of your industrial wireless networks.
Weibull Plots Predict System Reliability
Here’s a way to calculate the reliability for designs with several subsystems.
How to Take Vibration out of Stepmotors
The best way to handle resonance in stepmotors usually involves moving troublesome areas out of harm’s way.
Electrohydraulic Controls Boost Thermal Drilling
Melting holes is sometimes a better option than drilling them.
Don’t Come Unhinged Over Enclosure Design
Here are some key criteria for selecting the right enclosure hardware.
Packaging Goes Back to Nature
Consumer demand is driving development of recycled, recyclable, biodegradeable, and biocompostable packaging.
Configurable Components Streamline Packaging-Machine Design
Micron PharmaWorks Inc. of Odessa, Fla., builds
machines other firms use to package pharmaceuticals.
It also rebuilds existing equipment to extend
useful life.
Bearing Swap: If You Can’t Take the Chill, Get Out of the Cooler
Picture a 68-acre food-processing plant that makes over 250 products, more than 370 package types.
Leland Teschler's Editorial: Not that hard to learn
Here’s a frustration that’s particularly common among engineers and engineering students: It sometimes seems impossible to learn fast enough.