Design News - November 7, 2005

Cover Story

Officially, the 2005 Tour de France included three time trial races: Seven-time-winner Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team won the first team time trial early in the race. Armstrong placed second in the first-day individual competition against the clock. And he cruised over the finish line in the number one spot in the final, 55-km individual time trial in Stage 20 near the end of the tou...

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Ask The Search Engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Slippery Strapping
Designer's Corner
Pipe Connections Made Stronger
Designing With Plastics
Tool Tips: Materials, Manifolds & More
Expo
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Electronics
Fluid Power
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Jared's Ride Isn't Fly, but the Steering's Perfect
Green Scene
Environmental News Engineers Can Use
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
Car Talk
Reference This!
Wireless Audio Access
Slant
What Customers Want in Motion Control
Weblog
The Grand Challenge

Feature

Micro PLCs

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