Design News - April 6, 1998

Mountain-bike enthusiasts will love it. Design engineers with no mountain-bike experience will appreciate it.

• Design Applications
• From The Regional Editors
• Turbine to double spindle speed
• Flowmeter combines flume and Venturi tubes

• Designer's Corner
• Useful Technology For Your Idea File
• Gut grabber
• High-resolution magnetic encoder
• Lost motion valve link
• useful technology for your idea file
• Digital precision-metering pump

• Editorial
• How to cut design time

• Enclosures
• Modular gets popular
• Harley designs its own box

• Fast Track: Motion Control
• Vintage idea modernizes emerging processes

• Featured Product
• Instrument panel profits from gas assist

• Guest Commentary
• Exclusive Interviews With Technology Leaders
• Servo technology moves to mass customization

• Hot Products
• Position system gets encoder-based motors
• Rotary stage handles 300-mm wafers
• Motion controller receives upgrade
• Moving-coil motor maximizes torque
• Stage positions 24 axes
• Custom positioners, standard delivery
• Linear actuator is light, quiet
• Linear bearing goes for the gold

• Legal Forum
• Latest Advice On Engineering And The Law
• An independent inventor

• Letters To The Editor
• No 'damping' this snowboarder's spirits
• One yea, one nay
• Readers State Their Views
• How Titanic got on an'even keel'

• Managing Design
• Tips On Guiding Product Development
• How to use teams more effectively

• New Literature
• Replacement optics and parts
• Drives
• Linear motor systems
• Modules
• Technical databases
• Hydraulic valve/control products
• Analog interface modules
• Alloys
• Speed reducers/gearmotors
• Injection molding machines
• Fixtures
• Test/measurement equipment
• Relays
• Rubber mixing
• Test equipment
• Dc/dc converters
• Workstation
• PDM system
• Photoelectric sensors
• Harness mount system
• Servoamplifiers
• Elastomer
• Vise/tables
• Way slide
• Adapters
• Audible signal devices
• Standoffs
• Enclosures
• Test equipment
• Hard die systems
• First aid/medical products
• Data acquisition products
• Airflow control system
• Insulating materials
• Spindle systems
• Ball bearings
• Measurement/control
• Couplings
• Camera
• Vision systems
• Emissions procedures
• Threaded inserts
• Spindle drives
• Pressure-measurement instruments
• Concentrates
• Test equipment
• Springs
• Lighting systems
• IC products
• Air filters
• Switches
• Air dryers
• Wind load provisions
• Fasteners
• Machine tools
• Manufacturing execution systems
• Air showers
• Probe assemblies
• Amplifier
• CD-ROM
• Linear motion systems
• Ductile Iron castings
• Scrubber
• Fiber optics
• Software
• Pc-board assemblies
• Computers
• Sensors/electronics
• Nickel platings
• MOSFETs
• Retaining rings
• Bellows
• Die castings
• Welding machine
• Power supplies
• Air cylinder
• Software
• Pumps
• Dc/dc converters
• Control valve
• Linear motion components
• Materials

• OEM Journal
• Emerging Trends In Manufacturing
• Reading the tea leaves

• Product News
• Tool systems
• Digital Vision System
• IN BRIEF: Fastening, joining, and assembly

• Software Lab
• Reviews On Tools Of The Trade
• Mechanical Desktop 2.0

• Technology Bulletin
• Fluid Power
• New F-15 and F-16 aircraft engine soars in altitude tests
• Late Developments That Shape Engineering
• 'Next-generation' rail system advances valve technology
• Antifouling paint protects ship Hulls from barnacles
• Partnership develops new polymer family from plants
• Quantam mechanical transistor no longer science fiction
• New institute to focus on infrastructure systems
• Advanced coating technology no 'diamond-in-the-rough'
• Magnetically-actuated microrelays ready for batch production
• Reflective material delivers 'fashion with a flare'

• Washington Beat
• Technical News From The Capital
• 'Supercar' funding to focus on four areas of research
• Cars heading for fall showrooms will be at least 70% cleaner
• National Academy of Engineering elects 84 new members
• Brushless dc motor fine tunes itself while running
• Clinton budget calls for hikes in science, technology, R&D