Design News - August 3, 1998

Years ago, a family down the street set up an above-ground swimming pool, and it instantly became the top destination resort for neighborhood children.

• Designer's Corner
• Useful Technology For Your Idea File
• Precise preload
• Monorail meter
• Strain reliever
• Cool mover

• Editorial
• Communications skills critical

• Featured Product
• Thermal printers answer kiosks' call

• Guest Commentary
• Exclusive Interviews With Technology Leaders
• Embedded computers speed design cycle

• Hot Products
• Steel nurse linear actuator
• Ultra-small valve piston pumps are flexible
• Piston accumulators go metric!
• Stumpy block cylinders scrimp on space
• Modular hydraulic manifold systems
• Controllers for hydraulic proportional valves

• Legal Forum
• Latest Advice On Engineering And The Law
• Wrong patent mark, deep impact

• Letters To The Editor
• Readers State Their Views
• Suggestion for managers
• Spark plug 'sparks' debate
• A new industry?
• Help for a reader
• DN 100

• MOTION CONTROL
• Versatility fosters customer satisfaction

• Managing Design
• Tips On Guiding Product Development
• Project management learns new lessons

• Medical Electronics
• Piezos step up gait analysis

• New Literature
• Interconnection products
• Hot stamping program
• Software tool
• Encoder
• Decals and nameplates
• Control system
• Shoulder mills
• Spectrometer
• Circuits
• Vacuum pump/air compressor
• Photonics tools
• Servomotors
• Lubricants/sealants
• Industrial computers
• Needle/seat chokes
• Leak testing
• Lockers
• Instrument construction system
• Transformers
• Ac inverter
• Documentation system
• Spray nozzles/accessories
• Industrial evaporators
• Surge protection system
• Imaging products
• Casters/wheels/bumpers
• Bar systems
• Computers/computer displays
• Software
• Measurement software
• Horns and fixtures
• COTS VMEbus solutions
• Cases
• Converters
• Flow meters
• Power systems
• Bus
• Hazardous materials
• Industrial instruments
• Energy-monitoring equipment
• Switches
• Enclosures
• Converter
• Filter vessels
• Tools
• Aluminum alloy
• Data acquisition/control systems
• Hydraulic fluids
• Air-heating burner
• Spacing products
• Elastomers
• Pneumatics
• Welding products
• Adhesive
• Converters/power supplies
• Washers
• Screw machines
• Vapor deposition
• Flow meters
• Air conditioners
• Motion control system
• Measurements
• Transformers
• Lubricating products
• Software
• Linear guides
• Torque locknuts
• Baths/circulators
• LED assemblies
• Bus switch
• Digital power meter
• Switches/transmitters
• Motor operator
• Tear tape products
• Laser
• Valve actuators

• Oem Journal
• Emerging Trends In Manufacturing
• Driving the open bus

• Product News
• Belts
• Rod seal
• GUIDE
• IN BRIEF: Computer productivity tools
• Triple interface
• Servo controllers
• Digital position readout
• Computer Productivity Tools
• Microprocessor
• Touchscreen operator interface
• Software
• Cost-estimating software
• MCAD
• Mechanical simulation software
• Workstation
• CAD converter
• CAD software
• 3D digitizer
• Machine-vision software
• Autorouter
• Modeling program
• Estimating software
• Design simulation tool
• Drafting and modeling software
• Analysis software
• Autodialers
• Electrical/Electronics
• Battery system-compliant products
• Load cell
• Sensor
• Serial communication boards
• Switch
• Cordsets and power cords
• Relay
• Cables
• Transmission cable
• Junction boxes
• Fiber-optic assemblies
• Analog input board
• Fastening, Joining And Assembly
• Chassis
• Wire clips
• Adhesive
• Air hose
• Hose clamps
• Assembly system
• Case erector/packing station
• Couplings
• Cable reels
• Fluid Power
• Solenoid valve
• Pneumatic mufflers
• Air compressors
• Heat sinks
• Pneumatic regulator
• Pneumatic clampers
• Valves
• Recirculator
• Check valves
• Bellows
• Valves
• Diaphragm accumulators
• Ball-valve handles
• Gas bottles
• Split float
• U-cup
• Plastics, Metals And Other Materials
• Silicone device components
• Multifilament fabrics
• Ink
• Coating system
• Silicone products
• Gas program
• Rubber sponge components
• Polymer
• Resin
• Resin
• Ceramic
• Bonding process
• Polyurethane
• Powders
• Power Transmission And Motion Control
• Linear motor slide
• Motors
• Servo wheel
• Servo amplifiers
• Casters
• Digital controller
• Attachment chains
• Gearboxes
• Test, Measurement And Control
• Milling/drilling optimization device
• Protective spectacles
• Thermal imager
• Crossflow scrubbers
• Accelerometer
• Camera
• Arbitrary function generators
• Chip trays
• LCD design
• Slide rule
• Hand-held instrument

• Recreation
• Wood you buy these barrels?
• When to choose rotomolding
• Play Time

• Software Lab
• Reviews On Tools Of The Trade
• Solid Designer Version 6.0

• Technology Bulletin
• Late Developments That Shape Engineering
• Hydrofluoroether sampling program available for engineers
• Digital warriors test the Army's battlefield readiness
• System 'dices' up telephone access to e-mail and the Web
• Process delivers big increase in stainless-steel powder
• Tiny computers of carbon feasible that conduct without heating
• Colorectal cancer spread detected earlier with PET imaging
• Natural-gas-fueled locomotives reduce NO(sub x) emissions
• Bioweapon research system to track hepatitis C outbreaks

• Washington Beat
• Technical News From The Capital
• Government-college team creates world's smallest transistor
• Low-temperature chamber tests ultra-high altitude drone
• Bus-size, sensor-packed vehicle would fix potholes on the fly
• Fellowships promote research in integrated manufacturing
• Detective Colombo's raincoat never had pockets like this