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Motion Control/Automation Spotlight

Altera, Arrow, National Semiconductor Roll out Motor Control Platform spotlight

Altera, Arrow, National Semiconductor Roll out Motor Control Platform


National Semiconductor, Altera and Arrow Electronics have teamed up to deliver an FPGA-based motor control development platform that simplifies the process of supporting several different communication protocols.  Full Story >>
Feb 10 2009 05:36 PM

Latest Technology Stories

Optimizing Torque in Microstepping Drives

Stepper motors provide unique high-torque and positioning characteristics, along with the ability to hold a load at a specific rotational angle. Furthermore, these motors can be implemented as part of an open-loop positioning system without the additional costs associated with feedback circuitry. Stepper motors are susceptible to vibration that could prove problematic at certain rotational spee...  Full Story >>
Feb 19 2009 07:00 AM

Evolution in Packaging Controls

Packaging machinery is a primary target for innovation. This report surveys the latest trends and how packaging controls are evolving to power the newest generation of machines.  Full Story >>
Feb 17 2009 03:14 PM

Directions in Fluid Power

Compact and efficient fluid power is both the name and the overarching goal for the coalition setting the research focus for developments in fluid power technology. But clearly the quest for energy efficiency is a force fluid power will use to re-shape its future.  Full Story >>
Feb 16 2009 07:00 AM

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Electronics/Test Spotlight

The Eye of the Stethoscope spotlight

The Eye of the Stethoscope


Using HD Medical's electronic stethoscope and Texas Instruments digital processing technology, physicians can watch the changing waveforms of a beating heart.  Full Story >>
Feb 16 2009 07:00 AM

Latest Technology Stories

Home Theaters Employ Big, Bright LEDs

Home theater projector makers at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) demonstrated a new technological twist: using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to power their optical engines.  Full Story >>
Jan 16 2009 09:34 PM

Faster Processors Pave Way for Vision, 3-D TV

Multi-core microcontrollers and DSPs will pave the way for automotive vision, 3-D TV and home data storage.  Full Story >>
Jan 05 2009 12:00 AM

Practice Makes Perfect

From life-sized, interactive mannequins to virtual reality systems, simulators are transforming medical training.  Full Story >>
Dec 08 2008 12:00 AM

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Design Tools Spotlight

Rapid Prototyping Tools Showcased at SolidWorks World 2009 spotlight

Rapid Prototyping Tools Showcased at SolidWorks World 2009


Rapid prototyping system vendors are out in full force at this year's SolidWorks User Conference, each stressing the advantages of their tools over their competition's.  Full Story >>
Feb 10 2009 04:02 PM

Latest Technology Stories

Standing on the Edge of Mechatronics Development

When it comes to mechatronics' development kits, if the industry had known electronic, mechanical control systems and software disciplines were going to interweave, it would have built the design tools differently. Now the industry stands on the edge of both compromise and promise.  Full Story >>
Feb 19 2009 07:00 AM

The Challenge of Moving to New Development Tools

What turned out to be a major shift in design strategy had its inauspicious beginnings at the coffee machine. There was a brow-furrowed conversation between two co-workers, a design manager and an application engineer, about how to tackle an upcoming engineering project. This was not just any project.  Full Story >>
Feb 19 2009 07:00 AM

Supercomputing Hits the Desktop

By leveraging a hybrid CPU/GPU architecture, new personal supercomputers promise to change how engineers and scientists perform complex design and simulation work.  Full Story >>
Jan 23 2009 06:21 PM

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Materials/Fastening Spotlight

Konarka Dow Target Bigger Roles for Plastics in Solar Power spotlight

Konarka, Dow Target Bigger Roles for Plastics in Solar Power


Substantial progress is reported on two federal solar initiatives that use plastics to create flexible integrated designs using polymer technology. Dow envisions solar shingles.  Full Story >>
Feb 06 2009 09:38 PM

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Automotive Engineering Still Shines in Detroit

The Big Three automakers may be struggling, but not because of design engineering. The Ford Flex is one example of the technical breakthroughs being made by American engineers.  Full Story >>
Jan 28 2009 04:36 PM

Carbon Fiber, Nanotubes Are Leaps in Assembly Technology

Look for major new uses of carbon fiber and nanotubes to reduce weight and improve strength of mechanical designs. Cost and technical hurdles will be overcome as scale grows.  Full Story >>
Jan 05 2009 12:00 AM

Embedded O-Ring Self-Sealing Fasteners vs. the Old Standbys

Fastener users have a number of sealing options to effectively block contaminants and to contain fluids under pressure.  Full Story >>
Dec 30 2008 08:27 PM

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Automotive Spotlight

Automotive Engineering Still Shines in Detroit spotlight

Automotive Engineering Still Shines in Detroit


The Big Three automakers may be struggling, but not because of design engineering. The Ford Flex is one example of the technical breakthroughs being made by American engineers.  Full Story >>
Jan 28 2009 04:36 PM

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Innovative Fuel Tank Wins SPE's Grand Auto Design Prize

A revolutionary new system for producing plastic fuel tanks is the grand winner of the 38th annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition held by the Society of Plastics Engineers.  Full Story >>
Nov 21 2008 07:47 AM

Electric DeLorean Goes Back to the Future

Dr. David Delman's DeLorean uses thirteen 12V lead-acid batteries which drive a series-wound nine-inch DC electric motor that's mated to a five-speed manual transmission.  Full Story >>
Nov 10 2008 09:26 AM

Ford Flexes Engineering Muscle

Ford put a lot of engineering muscle into its 2009 Flex crossover, witnessed by eight technical innovations that were awarded finalist status in the 2008 Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Division Innovation awards.  Full Story >>
Oct 29 2008 07:05 AM

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Careers Spotlight

Study Calls for Improvements in Engineering Education spotlight

Study Calls for Improvements in Engineering Education


A new multi-year study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching takes engineering schools to task, saying they need to be more sympathetic to the concerns of the profession.  Full Story >>
Feb 12 2009 09:02 PM

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Mindful of the Gap

CAR Chairman David E. Cole urges his engineering students to focus their energies on "the gaps," places no other engineer has gone.  Full Story >>
Oct 06 2008 12:00 AM

The Apple Core and the Candy Wrapper

It's time for engineers to step up and move green engineering practices forward.  Full Story >>
Oct 06 2008 12:00 AM

Industry Innovation Overcomes Manufacturing Design Obstacles

The North American Die Casting Assn. is working to keep jobs and production in the U.S.  Full Story >>
Oct 06 2008 12:00 AM

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LED Driver Offers Full-Range, Flicker-Free Dimming

National Semiconductor this week rolled out a light-emitting diode controller that...

Electronics/Test | Feb 18 2009 03:27 PM

Luminus, Nichia Produce New White Light LEDs

Nichia Corp. and Luminus Devices Inc. have teamed up to create high-power white...

Electronics/Test | Feb 17 2009 09:39 PM

Autodesk Previews Inventor Fusion

Autodesk shows off new Inventor Fusion Technology that promises to meld the power...

Design Tools | Feb 10 2009 04:41 PM

SolidWorks Co-founder Predicts Four Key Trends in CAD

Co-founder and Group Executive John Hirschtick mesmerized the 4,300+ attendees at...

Design Tools | Feb 10 2009 04:24 PM

Camoplast Develops New Long-Fiber Injection Process

Camoplast partnered with Bayer and Krauss-Maffei to develop a polyurethane-based...

Materials/Fastening | Feb 09 2009 03:12 PM
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Gadget Freak

Gadget Freak Case 135 spotlight

Gadget Freak Case # 135: Magnify Your Workbench

William Grill needed to magnify his prototyping worktable, so he created a monitor that can display his work at 12-times scale on a PC.

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IPC seeks participants for PCB conference

The Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) has issued a Call for Participation for the Midwest’s premier technical conference, IPC Midwest Conference & Exhibition. This exhibition will take place September 23-24, 2009. The conference will be held on September 23 and professional development courses will take place ...
Posted in Lead-Free Zone Blog | 2009-02-21 04:42:41

Amazing display of questionable engineering

Here’s some astonishing video of “Gallopin’ Gertie” (the Tacoma Narrows Bridge) from November 7, 1940, just before the bridge was demolished by a gale. ...
Posted in 60 Years of Engineering Innovations | 2009-02-19 02:32:33

Collecting Energy from a Human Powered Gym

An entrepreneurial buddy of mine once pitched to me an idea: put generators on exercise bikes so people make electricity while they work out. My philosophy toward alternative energy was then as it is today. Retrofits only make sense if the economics are competitive with conventional technology. A simple calculation shows that power-generating exercise bikes have no traction. I started wi ...
Posted in I Have The Power! | 2009-02-19 02:31:44

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When was the transistor invented? Three physicists at Bell Telephone Laboratories unveiled the first transistor. The three men received the 1956 Physics Nobel Prize for their joint invention. Test your knowledge and match your score against your peers.

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Nitro Robot from NI

National Instruments developed the NITRO robot to preview the technology that the students would be using in the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition.


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Design News Partner Zones

AnarkCAD/CAE Model Clean-Up: Reduce Iterative Cycles
This webinar featured research and survey results related to problems associated with preparing CAD geometry for CAE applications.  We discussed how Recipe-Based Automation can help create "just-in-time" CAE-ready geometry each time a cad model is updated. Watch the Presentation

Light Matters: A High-Performance, "No-Compromise" Solid State Lamp?
First, let's define "no-compromise". In an ideal configuration, this lamp would use a high-brightness LED (HBLED) that is built into a small, integrated package, and is able to produce a large quantity of focused light, operate with a high level of reliability and generate no audible noise. Is this difficult? Yes, but it is possible.
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Design Engineers' Portal for Sensing and Machine Safety
Whatever industry you're in, or whatever product you manufacture, the right sensors to automate your plant, and to improve your overall efficiency, quality and safety are a must. You'll find Banner Engineering to be an amazing resource of products, training and people with expertise.

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