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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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,...
A rip in time makes nine
From the erosion of a grain of sand off a cliff to the unbounded expansion of the Universe, Nature tends towards disorder. This tendency has a name entropy....
The right distributor relationship
One question that motion control users have pondered for years is this: Is it better to select one strategic partner or use my business as leverage to...
Special report: U.S. manufacturing
As this magazine marks its 50th year in print, we explore how U.S. manufacturing has changed over this last half century. The trends are dramatic and (despite current economic woes) encouraging as well....
IEEE celebrates 125 years
Tracing its roots to the founding of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), today's IEEE celebrates...
Investigating IP codes
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Publication 60529 Classification of Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures provides a system for...
Moving rod ends
Similar to ball-and-socket joints, rod ends integrate a spherical bearing with a threaded shaft to make a support structure for other pivoting or moving...
Molecular motors
In some of the smallest motion systems in nature, scientists are now identifying how viruses sweep material inward. ...
Graphene holds promise for nanoelectronics
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a novel method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics....
Back to school: Industrial automation
During economic downturns, machine designers, operators, and maintenance personnel can improve their marketability with updated skills by taking training courses. ...
