Design News - November 22, 2004

Cover Story

Stop Burning Money: Build Models You Can Reliably Reuse

Engineer Bill Davis was surprised recently to learn that one of his engineering firm's customers who used 2D CAD redrew every part in the machine shop before building it, adding time and cost to the product-development process.

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Ask the Engineer
BMOC
Blood Test
Calamities
The Case of the Errant End-Loader
Designer's Corner
Inverted Roller Screw Actuator Features IP65 Rating
Expo
Fluid Power
Software/Hardware
Motion Control/ Power Transmission
Electronics
Featured Product
CPLDs Move to Chip Scale Packaging
Gadget Freak
Jerry Had High Ambitions
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
The MVP of Engineering
Rant
Break Your Own Rules
Slant
Report Card on Electrical Stimulation
Weblog
Online Networking Grows

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