| November 1, 2011 | Volume 7 Issue 41 |
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Try a Retaining Ring or Wave Spring for Free
Smalley Steel Ring offers free samples of standard parts from our catalog to test in your application. Over 6,000 Spirolox Retaining Rings and Constant Section Rings are available in stock, from ¼” to 16”, in carbon and stainless steel. Spirolox Retaining Rings have No Ears To Interfere® with mating components in an assembly and can interchange with stamped ring grooves. Space-saving Smalley Wave Springs can reduce spring heights by up to 50%. Wave Springs are available from stock in over 4,000 different configurations from ¼” to 16”.
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Miniaturized Positioning Stages Offer Micro-Level Accuracy
National Aperture set out to build a miniature linear positioning stage capable of achieving micron-scale accuracy with kilogram-level loads and rotary stages with sub-100-arcsec accuracy. They needed a small dc motor that could provide consistent, accurate performance and carry the load, so they turned to MICROMO for their motor needs. These reliable, tiny-but-mighty servo motors are perfect for rotary and linear stages in demanding scientific and medical applications.
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Lean Manufacturing: Was Steve Jobs lean?
Since his death, comparisons of Steve Jobs with great innovators and industrialists have been plentiful, with Henry Ford mentioned most often. The most thought-provoking parallel between the two men was in their approach and phenomenal success with product-process innovation. By John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.
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 | Mike Likes:
Unit and hardness converter iPhone app
Sealing specialist Trelleborg’s iPhone app “Unit and Hardness Converter” has surpassed 100,000 downloads in the five months since its
release. This app helps you convert frequently used, basic engineering units and even worldwide currencies in an efficient and convenient way. It comes with a hardness converter
based on ISO and ASTM standards to quickly switch between popular hardness scales for various material types. The app can be used in a wide range of design situations, whether
related to sealing or not. No charge. Available from iTunes or Apple App Store (“Trelleborg Converter”).
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Mechatronics:
Top 5 mechanical considerations for electrical engineers
Mechanical and electrical engineers often overlook important issues when specifying their respective parts of an electromechanical system. Here are five good pieces of advice for electrical engineers responsible for electromechanical systems, as provided by a mechanical engineer. By Jared Mann, applications engineer, Bosch Rexroth – Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies
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| Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action |
| NEW! The easier way to optimize your gear designs |
Developed by leading experts in gear design, EXCEL-LENT software from Excel Gear provides a quick-and-easy way to optimize your gear designs with minimal input. Users can optimize rack-and-pinion, spur, helical, internal, external, and circular pitch gears in English or metric units. The gear/gearbox design software quickly determines product parameters for various applications, saving hundreds of engineering hours. This software has been written by engineers who also design and manufacture gears for their own use.
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| The future of touchscreen is – touchless |
Proximity detection delivers an intelligent user experience by simplifying the human interface to machines with touchless technology. See how TAOS is aiming to change the way we interact with everyday applications to be more humanistic, personal, and smarter – and kind of magical.
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