Engineering Basics
Investigating IP codes
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Publication 60529 Classification of Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures provides a system for...
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Keeping your career on track: Tips for introverts
Are you more comfortable in front of your computer than at lunch with your coworkers? When you present a new design to colleagues or clients, do you have...
Sealing solutions give longer life, stop pesky leaks
Today's environment makes it tougher than ever to be competitive. Boost reliability with good seal design...
Solid ground with selecting servos
Want to avoid the quicksand that troubles others? This article gives common goofs made while selecting precision motion control drives...
Tutorial: Selecting an appropriate pump motor
As in any other application, a well-chosen pump motor must match the application. Large centrifugal pumps, however, demand to be known precisely or you may not even be able to start them...
Adjustable speed drives and more
Here we cover several new technologies and existing motion products...
Fun with Fundamentals: Problem 161
Best Rate and Solution to Problem 160. A mound of dirt by any other name can also smell as sweet, as this month's problem by James White of Henderson, Ky., demonstrates...
Centrifugal and centripetal force
An object traveling in a circle, even at constant speed, is accelerating. That's because its direction is constantly changing to point to the center of...
Why so many bearing greases?
The right grease can prolong the life of rolling-element bearings in expensive equipment, cut downtime, and improve performance. Guess what the wrong grease can do...
Golden triangle: Distributors, system integrators, and you
An innovation network is a web of people, institutions, or companies outside of a firm that helps it solve problems or come up with new ideas. Recently,...
Totally turbulence
Fluid dynamics comprise one wild frontier in physics that has not yet been fully tamed. Where Newton's laws neatly describe macroscopic behavior of discrete...
Add financial oomph to your designs
Engineers, scientists, and technical people are subject to stereotypes. Super-smart, hard worker, and problem solver stand out as positive labels, while...
Distributors play vital training role
Experts warn of an impending shortage of qualified workers. Worse yet, the world of motion stands to be one of the hardest hit areas. We face a perfect...
More on entropy
As a measurement of a system's randomness, entropy has specific scientific meaning. Last month, we saw how entropy can be scientifically defined in terms...
Solving problems when things go wrong
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin, American...
Segway segue
Check it out, Dean Kamen: Forty years before the Segway, in 1959, a young student at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology,...
