Samtec has introduced connectors for the SGeT oHFM.c standard, based on its AcceleRate® HD and AcceleRate® HP product families. The connectors use a 0.635 mm pitch and support performance targets of ...

Here’s a story about David Helmers, a mechanical design engineer who couldn’t shake his entrepreneurial itch and started Wolfpack Workshop with his wife, learning lifelong lessons along the way. When ...

In 1984, Lockheed ceased production of the L1011 TriStar airplane and exited the world of commercial aircraft for good. For Lockheed, its latest passenger jet had been heralded as a technological ...

Housed terminal blocks are most suitable for semi-permanent and permanent connections of signals and power … accommodating wire and cable sizes from the delicate 16 American Wire Gauge (awg) to what ...

Managing the six-axis platform in robotics requires special consideration when designing cabling systems. In the field of multi-axis robots, industrial integrators are faced with the unique challenge ...

How does it work? That was the question few people asked about the mythical supertechnology supposedly at the core of Theranos — a Silicon-Valley unicorn overvalued by some $9 billion during a ...

There are many factors to consider when designing retainer rings. Here are four that may help you. Retaining rings are precision engineered parts that provide a shoulder for accurately positioning, ...

Aerotech Inc. announced a collaboration with Santec and SENKO Advanced Components to develop the PICAlign architecture, an active alignment approach intended to address manufacturing challenges in ...

Check it out: This year’s Motion Control Handbook from Design World separates power-transmission designs (in which raw torque and speed dominate) from motion systems in which positioning and defined ...

AI has the potential to allow engineers to design products faster than before while meeting design specifications, sometimes in new and unique ways. Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor Artificial ...

In teaching engineering ethics, we cover quite a few case studies of actual engineering disasters to trace out what went wrong, what choices the people involved made, and why. And there is no shortage ...

Threadlockers offer a universal, reliable adhesive solution to an age-old problem in many OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) applications. Typically ...