Design News - April 20, 1998

Table design is just one element to accurate positioning; software is the other. So says systems integrator Jim Saudargas.

• Designer's Corner
• Useful Technology For Your Idea File
• Universal linear luge
• Multi-axis force sensor
• useful technology for your idea file
• UV/filtration pitcher

• Editorial
• Two 'schools' for engineering thought

• Engineer's Profile
• Up Close And Personal
• Engineer continues quest for flapping wing

• Engineering Productivity Kit: Fluid Power
• Hydraulics manufacturers work to reduce noise

• Featured Product
• IntelliStation M Pro poised to take over the world

• Fluid Power
• Have it your way

• Guest Commentary
• Exclusive Interviews With Technology Leaders
• Outsourcing expands company's core competencies

• Hot Products
• New analysis capabilities
• Drop it 'on' the computer
• A better I-DEAS
• Update to a classic
• A CAD library goes on line
• Help for large-scale digital mock-up

• Letters To The Editor
• Readers State Their Views
• Just spell it out for me
• More on SUVs
• Personal effort
• A plug for diesels
• Losses and gains
• More metric musings
• Four wheels vs. all wheels
• Zero pollution! Yes
• An eager competitor
• 'No' to metric conversion
• No, they don't augment power
• Inventions wanted
• The environment is newsworthy
• More information

• Managing Design
• Tips On Guiding Product Development
• Performance evaluation: a new ball game

• Materials
• Coating system drives engine-block design

• Metals/Metalworking
• Get a handle on investment casting

• New Literature
• Ball-screw systems
• Universal testing machines
• Software
• Epoxy preforms
• Steam traps
• Software
• Motion controllers
• Data acquisition/control cards
• Ac/dc converters
• Plane bearings
• Silicone products
• Ball screws
• Conductive gels
• Printer
• Composite coating
• Adhesive
• Gauges
• Power supplies
• Pressure transducers
• Safety-testing products
• Retaining rings
• Industrial computers
• Heat exchangers
• Fume hoods
• Precision-expanded foil
• Adhesive
• Thermoplastic
• Heaters
• Fastener
• Plastic-part design
• Servoamplifiers
• Analysis software
• Cable assembly/wire harness solutions
• End mills
• Solderless jumper box
• Thermoplastic polyurethane
• Switches
• Potentiometers
• Materials
• Test equipment
• Voltage surge suppressors
• Electrical products
• Stress-relieving technology
• Compressors
• Sockets
• Air conditioners

• Product News
• Diaphragm
• Resistors
• IN BRIEF: Computer productivity tools
• Coating process
• Workstations
• IN BRIEF: Computer productivity tools
• IN BRIEF: Computer productivity tools
• Vinyl products
• Valves
• IN BRIEF: Computer productivity tools
• Computer Productivity Tools
• Software
• Software
• Software
• Analysis software
• Pc card receptacle
• Drive/adapter
• Keystroke tutorials
• Operator interface terminal
• Keyboards
• Microcontroller
• Analysis software
• PC-based product
• Software library
• Productivity tool
• Software
• Electrical/Electronics
• Surge protection devices
• Laser system
• Connector
• Metal substrate
• Relay
• Laser
• Converters
• Power modules
• Sensors
• Power supply
• Sensor
• Fastening, Joining And Assembly
• Wire processor
• Caps
• Epoxy
• Connectors
• Epoxy adhesive
• Fiber-placement system
• Enclosures
• Paste
• Termination kits
• Fluid Power
• Springs
• Steel cooler
• Cylinders
• Suction cups
• Pump
• Air cylinders
• Seals
• Air valves
• Solenoid
• Filters
• Valves
• Plastics, Metals And Other Materials
• Polyurethane
• Polyester
• Engine cleaner
• Furniture glides
• Bus controller
• Nylon resin
• Oil
• Foil laminates
• Alloy
• Compound
• Intermetallic powders
• Bars
• Composite
• Power Transmission And Motion Control
• Brushless actuators
• Motors
• Expansion card
• Gear products
• Linear actuator
• Bearing support blocks
• Drive
• Machine controllers
• Gearmotors
• Gearheads
• Test, Measurement And Control
• Calibrator/thermometer
• Tester
• Engine monitoring system
• Oscilloscope
• Transducers

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Sliced diced & wire bonded

• Software Lab
• Reviews On Tools Of The Trade
• Solid Edge 4.0

• Technology Bulletin
• Late Developments That Shape Engineering
• Spring sprouts software
• Customize your computer system
• Automating factory automation
• From A to Z in nuclear fusion

• Test Equipment
• Data acquisition rewrites engineering job description
• Test time for the Hummer

• Washington Beat
• Technical News From The Capital
• Report cites key technologies needed for space missions
• NASA web site helps students learn about airplane design
• House Science panel disputes Clinton's R&D budget
• Engineering Academy to present Charles Draper Prize annually
• Powerful microscopes emerge from missile research

• new literature
• Humidity-related equipment