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Feature Articles

Making history
Legal animations, a combination of artistic effects and careful scientific investigation, originate from accident reconstruction firms like the Denver-based Knott Laboratory, which has performed over 10,000 accident analyses over its 24-year history. For the last decade, its animation department has placed the mathematic conclusions of engineers into the visual language of CGI. Knott Lab engineers also evaluate the safety, design, and failure of various products and are often called upon to testify whether or not the product was poorly designed, why a component failed, or if maintenance and misuse caused or contributed to the accident or loss.
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Synchronizing your efforts
While embracing the wave of convergence between software, electronics, and hardware is crucial for winning in today's market, many companies struggle to synchronize efforts in two critical areas of systems-based product design: alignment of the design disciplines throughout the new product development cycle, and alignment of the product management, design, and manufacturing teams needed to ensure that core products can be manufactured as intended. Synchronous Product Development (SPD) just might be the answer.
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WaterShed moments
When the Porvair Filtration Group, one of the world's leading providers of specialty filtration and separation technology, decided to diversify into the field of BioSciences, managers faced the challenge of how to best demonstrate the new venture's innovative and complex diagnostic device concepts. The answer — an optically clear ABS-like material — turned out to be a WaterShed moment for the company.
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Researchers aim to close "green gap" in LED technology
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received $1.8 million in federal funding to improve the energy efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Solid-State Lighting Program, the team aims to close the "green gap" in LED technology by doubling or tripling the power output of green LEDs in three years. Why is green light so important?
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New Products

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Guides

  • New OEM low-cost product line for pneumatics — MFD Pneumatics
  • New tool control products designed for military apps — Applied Industrial Technologies
  • Maxon Motor Catalog 2006/07 — Maxon Precision Motors

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