Design News - October 10, 2005

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While studying automotive door assemblies a few years ago, researcher Jay Baron made an amazing discovery: One automaker's door assemblies, made from near-perfect parts, were getting low marks from customers who complained that the doors were leaky. So Baron, who has spent half a lifetime studying such matters, marched down to the domestic automaker's engineering facility to deliver the bad n...

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The Case of the Rotting Roasts
Cool Software Tricks
Make Excel Display Engineering Data
Designer's Corner
Plastic Hubs Improve Coupling
Designing With Plastics
A Design Recipe For Ribs
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Motion Control/Power Transmission
Electronics
Fluid Power
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New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Kanceruk the Magnificent Strikes Again
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Oregon and Washington Join California in Auto Emissions Clampdown
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Hydraulic Fans Cool Diesels
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The Passion and Pain of Engineering Education

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