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Water Jet Cutting
Water jet cutting provides a versatile, cold cutting option that basically is a super-sonic erosion of flat-stock materials. Brian Sherick of Flow International talks about the advantages of water jet...
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Synthetic Human Tissue
The standard for testing on tissue has been live animals; you need a large study to determine data. Putting aside the ethical considerations, that gets fairly expensive. SynDaver Labs has developed...
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Micro Welding Systems
Micro welding is welding at or below ten-thousandths of an inch. Ideal for an engineer at a bench or maybe a jeweler, micro welding allows for pulse-arc welding at the micron level. Aaron Astle of...
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Rugged Portable Memory
Say, "portable memory" to anyone and they will immediately think USB. What Datakey Electronics has developed is rugged portable memory for industrial applications like surviving sterilization,...
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Fifth-Axis Robotic Wrists
Designing a wrist mechanism on a robotic arm that can reach around and into objects while maintaining a compact form-factor is complex engineering. Phil Baratti at Epson Robots explains how their...
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ID-Light Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping designs on a large scale means a heavy model. Solid Concepts has designed their own polymer that changes the CAD model idea of layering to an internal lattice. Scot Thompson explains...
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Gear Motor Application
There are several ways a design engineer can get into trouble in the application of gear motors: poor ventilation, over torque, current draw and misapplication. Peter Roberts of Brother International...
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Efficient AC Servo System
The latest in technology for servo motor control includes vibration control, motor temperature, accuracy, speed and torque. Larry Banghart of Sanyo Denki America demonstrates their technology that...
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Valveless Piston Pump
By rotating a wear and abrasion resistant piston, Fluid Metering has developed a pump that with one full rotation creates both suction and discharge. The pump is also precise and very accurate. Dennis...
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Microblasting
The process of microblasting uses a very fine abrasive media at 10 to 50 micron size which is then propelled through a fine-tip nozzle. This is used to texture or cut through materials where exacting...
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Intelligent Actuator
When you replace an air driven cylinder system with an electromechanical system you go from having basically two points of reference to over 500. Chris Prior of IAI shows the benefits of servo driven...
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Rube Goldberg Machines and Automation Engineering
Most groups will show automation with a representation of a factory process in miniature. Fusion Systems Group demonstrated their automation process by building a continuous golf ball chipping...
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Silicone Prosthetics from Factor II and Bluestar
Lee Teschler of Machine Design magazine talks with John McFall of Factor II about using Bluestar Silicones to create prosthetics for mental well-being of patients and for the film industry.Hosted by:...
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