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The Brainstorm: Seasoned Design Engineers Stay Relevant   6/19/2009
The Brainstorm is a section of Product Design & Development where we talk with industry leaders to get their perspective on issues critical to the overall design engineering marketplace. In this issue, we ask: How do seasoned design engineers stay relevant, challenge their skills, and grow in their fields?      Continue
Anti-Serendipity   6/18/2009
Last month, I spoke at length of the role of serendipity in innovative problem solving, and I offered five axioms for maximizing serendipity within your organizations. This month, I’d like to address the roadblocks we all face in making this dream a reality, and in doing so I’d like to share five contradictory lessons shared by a very dear, very smart friend who has spent most of his life supplying “tools” - you know, planes, ships, guns, etc. - to the military.   Continue
Still In Control … For Now   6/18/2009
Software support stands out when selecting a motor controller. Does the vendor make it easy to move from model to model without big code rewrites? How about from interface to interface — can you move from USB to TCP/IP without lots of headaches? And you can’t forget about neat and serviceable cabling - one of the biggest contributor to reliability.   Continue
Born To Live, Live To Ride   6/18/2009

Electric bicycles remain in their infancy in the U.S. market. The total number of purchases is less than five percent of all bike purchases (including mountain bikes, road bikes, cruisers, etc.), but the number of commuters is growing, especially in bike-friendly cities in the States such as Portland, OR, Boulder, CO, Denver, CO and Madison, WI – also the home of Schwinn Bikes.   Continue

Incremental Improvement Continues   5/1/2009
This week the index is up a little more than 20 points in posting a total value of 1372.93. During this same stretch the Dow rose about 200 points, staying consistently above the 8000 mark.     Continue
Case Study: Direct Metal Laser Sintering   4/27/2009
Laser-sintered prototypes of open hooks that attach to vertebral bodies/ribs. Utilized for evaluation, these are produced from 17-4 SS (stainless steel) material by DePuy Spine with Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) technology from EOS. (Image courtesy of DePuy Spine)     Continue
An Electronic CEO Fireside Chat with Dr. Steven Armentrout, Parabon NanoLabs   4/23/2009
Dr. Steven Armentrout is the founder and CEO of Parabon NanoLabs (PNL), a leading nano-engineering company that produces nano-enabled products via directed molecular self-assembly. Armentrout discusses the Nanotechnology Revolution and how the market for nanotechnology products and services will reach $1 trillion by 2015. Oh, and he’s pretty pumped about the potential to benefit mankind too.     Continue
Is Flat The New Success Story?   4/22/2009
With the significant fluctuations that have dominated the Product Design & Development Stock Index’s performance over the past couple of weeks, I find myself more uneasy in putting this column together after a good week than a poor one. So after reporting significant improvements for the second straight week in last Wednesday’s edition, I went into this week with one eye closed in anticipation of another dip. Thankfully, I was wrong.     Continue
Choosing an EMS Supplier? Look for PLM   4/22/2009
EMS suppliers operate within an OEM’s product lifecycle. Whether an OEM offers one product line or many, suppliers need to understand and be fully in-tune with where the product resides in the lifecycle stage. If they’re not, engineering changes could take longer and cost more. Product improvements may never be addressed or suggested and safety stock programs may not receive the attention they deserve. These situations suggest that there are numerous benefits to a systematic and organized PLM focus.     Continue
Exploiting On-Machine Probing   4/21/2009
Alp Aviation, (Eskisehir, Turkey), uses on-machine probing capabilities aided by Reinshaw’s Productivity+ software to reduce production cycle times by 50 percent.     Continue

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