Guide-Wheel System: Properties, Selection & Sizing Paper dust particulates wreak havoc with just about every aspect of paper converting machinery, especially the bearings. Linear guides, planar bearings and shafts, even with wipers, lubricators, scrapers ... 2/27/2006
Caterpillar Opens Its Doors Caterpillar's new testing group, Engine Systems Technologies and Solutions, is inviting other manufacturers of equipment from engines to construction machinery to avail themselves of its services. The company maintains the machines and the instruments to test engine emissions, noise, and vibration, and has already begun working with engine components suppliers and makers of after-treatment equ... 12/5/2005
The Case of the Capricious Carburetor My e-mail reply to A recent comment by a reader of these "Calamities" columns brought back my memory of a bizarre incident involving an engine-powered lift truck. While employed as a staff engineer for what was then a major fork lift manufacturer, I got a request to assist the eastern zone service manager in analyzing the cause of an alleged forklift "run-away. 11/21/2005
The Anadromous Strain It was author John McPhee that I first learned the word anadromous. It describes salmon, shad, and other fish who swim uphill from salt to fresh water to breed. A writer would appreciate McPhee's applying it in a completely different context, to that of ships entering the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico. 10/24/2005
The Grueling Race to Boost Failing Hearts It's a medical marketer's dream: Offer a safe implantable blood pump for patients dying from end-stage heart failure. With nearly 5 million Americans suffering from that disease—and another 400,000 new cases diagnosed each year—experts have pegged the potential market for ventricular-assist devices (VADs) at 70,000 in the U. 10/24/2005
JUNE 26TH WEBCAST: Collaborative Requirements Engineering
Speed your innovation. Capture the "voice of the customer" and translate customer requests into user requirements that define new products. Find out why the new ENOVIA Requirements Management solution enables organizations to improve their overall global requirements management process. Read More
Mechatronics in action
Successful synergistic integration of controls, electronics, computers and mechanical systems is key to the 21st century design process. Unlock the secrets at the Mechatronics Zone!
Webcast: Sensor Know-How Now
Join our moderator Randy Frank and John Keating from Cognex and explore Solving Industrial Inspection Problems. Read More
Engineering Concept Conduit
Engineering Concept Conduit looks at new products and the components that make them exceptional. Each month we’ll look at a new electronic product and see what makes it tick from an engineering point of view. We’ll explore the design and engineering challenges for the product and examine the components that solved those challenges.
Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More