Design News - December 3, 2001

Cover Story

Best Products of the Year 2001

What do you get when you take a bad economy, throw in a complex engineering application proposal, and slap a fast-approaching deadline on it?

Departments

Break Time
Paralysis by analysis
Designer's Corner
Optical data signals
Single-use safety stop
Pancake motor/gear train
Editorial
The price of patriotism
Embedded Systems And The Design Engineer
Ethernet comes to the factory
Guest Commmentary
More options for seal designers
Hot Products
Innovative Motion Control Products
OEM Journal
A gift for engineering
Product News
Electrical/Electronics
Fastening, Joining and Assembly
Test, Measurement and Control
Plastics, Metals and Other Materials
Fluid Power
Power Tranmission/Motion Control
Readers Write
Reader's Write

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