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Green & Energy Efficient Design - Archives - March 2009

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Regular updates on new alternative fuel sources, power supply systems, materials, approaches and other components that can play a key role in improving energy usage models while assembling your bill of materials.

Replacing Needle Valves   3/9/2009
Bird Precision routinely helps assist designers with flow guides and extremely repeatable sapphire and ruby orifice retrofits in order to achieve the ideal flow solution. Needle valves can be a blessing for design engineers, because you can easily dial in a required flow.   Continue
Engineering Is Safer … In Canada   3/9/2009
Despite widespread layoffs, some companies still hiring in this recession By Brenda Bouw Job postings are a rare sight in a recession but experts say there is still work to be found in this rising sea of layoffs if you have the right skills and know where to look.   Continue
Common Information Backbone   3/9/2009
Aerospace industry guidelines for implementing interoperability standards for engineering data The purpose of this document is to provide strategic and tactical guidance for the adoption by industry of a common standard-based information backbone.   Continue
For Heavy Lid Apps   3/5/2009
CounterBalances can be designed to integrate hinge and attaching features . CounterBalance Corporation (Warminster, PA) has many solutions for heavy lid applications.   Continue
Special Swivel Arrangement   3/5/2009
The special-purpose conveyor chains are used for gripping, collecting and transporting thin-walled, large-surface materials . Iwis (Munich, Germany) introduces grip chains with wear- and corrosion-resistant clamping elements.   Continue
Pneumatic Automation Technology   3/5/2009
A look into the world of pneumatic technology and the benefits it provides   SMC summarizes the major benefits of pneumatic technology in all industries, such as medical, semi-conductor, food processing, and automotive.   Continue
Magnetic Piston Feature   3/3/2009
The Swing Clamp Cylinders feature four rod end flats for arm positioning. Fabco-Air (Gainesville, FL) introduce swing clamp cylinders where the clamp arm rotates 90° as it extends away from the workpiece providing clearance and access for unload/load operations.   Continue
The Joining Of Pre-painted Materials   3/2/2009
Eliminating need for post-paint operations reduces regulatory compliance costs The AKH FAS-NER SYSTEM is a simple punch and die operation that automatically feeds, punches, inserts and locks a self-piercing FAS-NER to produce a solid joint all in one operation.   Continue

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