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Keep 'em Rolling  Rolling ring linear motion is found in finishing machinery that requires smooth, accurate linear motions. The simple operating process and low maintenance makes it ideal for reducing machine cost in operations including painting, coating, positioning, cutting, spraying, slitting, and packaging. Can your operations benefit as well?
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Cracks, and Current, and Corrosion, Oh My!
 Bearings can't roll forever. And these are only a few of the stresses that can affect bearing life and machinery operation. With a little detective work and this guide on bearing failure, you can determine what went wrong in a bearing failure and how to prevent the same failure from happening again.
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The Magnificent Sealing Material Seven
 Silicone, neoprene, nitrile, fluoroelastomers, EPDM, SBR, and TPE make up the lucky seven polymers that are more often than not the materials of choice when it comes to designing seals. Review this checklist on the physical and mechanical requirements to pick the right material for your seal design.
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Pump Up Your Knowledge
 Pick up packing and pump principles, mechanical seal and gasket principles, hydraulic pneumatic principles, and live loading — all from the comfort of your own computer. Interactive, online courses in industrial maintenance walk engineers and operations staff through the basic concepts on your schedule, and without the travel.
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Danaher Motion
New Linear Actuator Cuts Costs, Boosts Productivity
 New Thomson ElecTrak Pro linear actuators are a zero-maintenance electromechanical solution packed with standard features that promise significant machine builder and user benefits, including quick and easy installation, superior accuracy, repeatability, reliability, and advanced control over critical machine operations, with maximized machine uptime at an extremely attractive price point.
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Acme Wire Products Co., Inc.
Custom Fabricated Wire and Metal Components
 Acme Wire Products provides formed and welded steel and stainless steel and wire and metal components to exacting tolerances. Custom fixturing and proprietary equipment ensure that dimensional accuracy and superior weld integrity are consistently provided. When a standard item won't work, call Acme for assistance. Design for manufacturability reviews provided at no charge.
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Wind Hardware & Engineering
Drawer Slides
• Precision steel ball bearing slides
• Available in standard or bayonet mounting slides
• ROHS plating available
• 90-250 lbs capacity
• ANSI/BIFMA/KCMA/SEFA approved
• Standard lengths are 10-24 in.
• 3/4, full extension, and over-travel extension available
• Clear, zinr, or black plated
• More information
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Kamatics Corporation
Custom Self-Lubricating Bearing Solutions
 When performance counts, designers and engineers often turn to the Kamatics Corporation for custom solutions to their demanding bearing applications. Since 1966, Kamatics has been designing and manufacturing self-lubricating bearings that exceed customer performance and quality expectations. Our products are highly engineered and tailored for your application parameters.
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Spring Material Selection Simplified
 You specified a custom compression spring. But, with a minimum tensile strength of 350, a modulus of elasticity of 30, and a maximum temperature of 250° F, which spring material is the best choice for your design? Find out quickly with this handy chart of Properties of Common Spring Materials.
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Pin Down Assembly Costs
 It's a fact of engineering design — costs can be cut by reducing component cost or by reducing the cost of the assembly process. Or, have it both ways by combining several functions into a coiled spring pin or replacing more complex components with a coiled spring pin. Read this white paper.
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Spotlight on Tool Inventors
 One highlight of this year's National Hardware Show will be the Inventor's Spotlight focusing on new products for inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs to display their latest invention. Slated for Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center on May 8-10, this year features three shows in one — National Hardware Show, Lawn and Garden Show, and Housewares Show.
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Pack More Punch in Power Paks
 Consumers are demanding cordless tools that are just as powerful as the electric tools. They also want current, capacity, runtime, physical requirements, and safety. Power paks and batteries are now being designed via a systems approach keeping in mind how the power needs to interact with the tools to keep the consumer satisfied.
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Macro Sensors, A Division of Howard A. Schaevitz Technologies
Position Sensor 24 VDC Pre-Calibrated 0-10 VDC
 Pre-calibrated DC-LVDT's. Position sensor applications in automated machinery and OEM applications. We offer a complete line of controllers and indicators for ease of setup and use. Call us for your tough applications. Robust custom engineered designs for extreme environments like high-heat, high-pressure, and subsea. More information...
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Smalley Steel Ring Company
ID/OD Retaining Ring Lock
 Try a spiral ring in both an internal and external groove at the same time. Install the ring in one groove, then compress the ring with the mating component into the second groove. When the grooves meet, the ring snaps into place creating a low-cost, hidden, high-strength, tamper-proof rotating joint. More information...
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APM Hexseal Corp.
Armored Plated Switch Seals Handle Anything... Anywhere
 Heavily armored switch and circuit breaker sealing boots from APM HEXSEAL, designed for use in extreme work conditions where rough handling might damage the silicone sheath of standard silicone sealing boots. IP68 rated, ideally suited for environmentally challenged off-road equipment, oil rigs, meat/food processing plants, and military vehicles.
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Carnes-Miller Gear Co., Inc.
Gear Grinding Services
 CMG grinds special profiles, root diameters, or blanks unhobbed or shaped in advance of a prototype when time-critical. Our Hofler 400K has on-board inspection so classifcation and quality are verified prior to taking the part off the machine. Off-line inspection verifys gear quality.
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Dice
A Better Job Search by Design
 DiceEngineering.com offers thousands of quality engineering jobs at top technology and engineering companies. Find jobs in your area of expertise. Search now.
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Partnering Principles in Problem Solving
 Engineering is all about solving problems. Yet when working with other engineers, problem-solving becomes more complex. Adaptation and Innovation Theory, principles founded on the assumption that all people can creatively solve problems, may provide the answers in putting teams together and promote working within the team to solve those pesky design problems.
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Engineering Greats Brainstorm Online What are the challenges of landing on Mars? What are the engineering needs for the developing world? Can we educate engineers for 2020? What are the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century? Join the National Academy of Engineering in online brainstorming for the next Grand Challenges of Engineering.
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