Design News - February 3, 2003

Cover Story

Linear motors will now be expected to go head-to-head with rotary motors and ball screws, pneumatic cylinders and belt drive in applications ranging from transfer lines to test instruments.

Departments

Ask The Engineer
Ask The Search Engineer
BMOC
Control Freak
Calamities
The Case of the Bungled Brakes
Designer's Corner
Connector survives high cycles
Expo
Fastening/Joining/Assembly
Electronics
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Software/Hardware
Steel Jacket Armors Plastic Fiber Optics
Fluid Power
Flash
Inter-Connect Products
Gadget Freak
Robert Suddenly Realized the Sand Beneath His Feet Was Kitty Litter
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Measurements In The Design Flow
First, You Simulate
My View
Pink Slips or Union Cards?
Rant
Don't Just Take It
Slant
Company Man
Weblog
The Scoop on Shovels

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