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Table of Contents

Issue date: July 17, 2006


Features
Working hard for their money
Today's design engineers are doing far more than ever before
Elizabeth M. Taurasi, Managing Editor

Easy as XYZ
Custom lead screw and spline shaft rail design economizes space in robotic sample manager
Al Presher, Contributing Editor

Part Cutters
Design for assembly dramatically reduces complexity of plasma arc cutter
Joseph Ogando, Senior Editor

Deep Dive
RoHS Compatabilities
RoHS-compliancy is just one of the design issues
W. Michael King, Contributing Writer
Departments

Expo
2250 USB MPEG Capture Device Analog-to-video flexibility

860 High-Temperature, Thermally-Conductive Epoxy

Advantech's MIC-3316 3U CompactPCI Controller

Aremco-Bond™ 2150 Epoxy Compound

Belden Stainless Steel Universal Joints

Blue Blade Steel's Tempered Steel Line

Bosch Rexroth Corporation eLINE Ball Rail® System

Broadband Attenuator Relays

Corr-Paint™ CP2020 Paint

DENSO RC7M Robot Controller

DIRAK's SNAP-LINE Swinghandles

EAO Custom-Built Series 70 Membrane Switch Solutions

EAO Series 14 products

Easyfit™ EF45-GM Slip-On Structural Pipe Fitting

EP17 One-Component Adhesive/Sealant

EXAIR's Super Air Nozzle Clusters

F230 Mount Oscillator

FDT100 Series Flowmeters

Gallium Nitride-on-Diamond® Semiconductor Wafer

Helical Machined Springs

High-Resolution Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder

IEC Terminal Blocks

Illuminated Knob Figure Dials

Kwik-Lok™ Lifting Pins

LM76's Speed Guides™ Linear Guide Systems

MACtac acrylic MACdots Pressure Sensitive Adhesive

Maestro Multi-Axis Supervisor

MDrive42AC Plus

MMK-Series enclosed switching power supplies

Modular Miniature Check Valves

Motor and Driver Packages

Northwire DataCELL™ MVC-800 FireWire cable

PCL6143 Four-Axes Single IC Motion Processor

Pneumatic and Filter Regulators

Premix PRE-ELEC® EMI Shielding Compounds

Proximity sensor line

RedEye RPM's FullCure™ Tango modeling materials

Safety Banana Plug

Schunk PZV Four-Finger Concentric Gripper

Sensor Systems Solutions' Model 7400 Pressure Sensor

Shortwave Infrared Camera

SKF Series HMS5, HMSA10 Radial Metric Shaft Seals

Smart Power Modules

STP50XC LED Light Strips

SU320KTX-1.7 RT Shortwave Infrared Camera

Subminiature Pressure Regulator

Teledyne Relays' PC150 Solid-State Power Controllers

ThinGap TG2300 Motor Series

Trust Automation's TA330 Linear Drive

Type W and Type W-2 replacement switches

Uni-Form Epoxy Preforms

Voice Coil Stages

Zetex ZXCT1051 Current Monitor

Zettler's XMCO 50 and 63-Amp Definite Purpose Contactors


Flash
iPOD PORTABLE SPEAKERS

iPOD STEREO DOCKING STATION

MUSIC SYNTHESIZER

PORTABLE PICTURE STORAGE

Self-Tuning Guitar


From the Forums
From the Online E2E Forum


Global Buzz
Don't Open that Cylinder

Industry's heavy hitters roll out new sensing technology

Programmable Gyro Extends its Reach

Prox sensor detects carbon fiber composites


Green Scene
Here Comes The Plug-In Hybrid

Most Design Engineers Are Ready For RoHS

Natural Gas Honda Civic Gets Cheap to Own


Mail
Engineers of Tomorrow Need Parental Support, Not Interference


Trend Watch
ADI's Capacitance-To-Digital Converter

BAR CODE SCANNER

Building Wireless Applications

Capacitance Simplifies Touch Sensing

Cypress's CapSense Sensor

Deterministic Control Possibilities

Ethernet/IP Steps Up

Ethernet/IP Steps Up

Freescale's E-field Sensor

Remote Control

RFID product identification and data collection

SCANNER INTERFACE USING ETHERNET/IP

Wireless Safety
Columns

Calamities
The Case of the Class-Action Capers


Cool Software Tricks
Going Parallel With Star-P™ and MATLAB®


Designer's Corner
Low TCR Calibration Resistor

MEMS Resonator Takes on Quartz Crystals

Turn, Turn, Turn


Gadget Freak
Case #87: Jason Was An Honorary Member of the Captain Nemo Fan Club


Motion Control and Automation
Using Superimposed Fields for Current Sensing


Motorhead
Evaluate Motion Software Solutions


Rant
Black Boxing Your Open Environment Appliances


Rarely Asked Questions
It may be Greek to you, but sigma delta converters are not really hard to understand.


The Sports Page
Better Together


Tips from Titus
Excel Makes Waves


Web Log
Material Safety Data Sheets Made Simple


Engineering News

Embedded Software Offers Field Diagnostics

Compact, High-Pressure Pump

Here Comes The Plug-In Hybrid

Most Design Engineers Are Ready For RoHS

Natural Gas Honda Civic Gets Cheap to Own

Prototype Tools That Go With the Flow

Direct Drive Steering

Simplifying Product Development

Lego my robot


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