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The Sound of Downtime
Avoiding downtime of critical machinery takes considerable planning, maintenance, and the clairvoyance to read the sound emanating from inside machines. How's that done you ask? The answer is found using advanced online condition monitoring systems (CMS) with the ability to divine machine health by listening to bearing noise.
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Cleanliness Counts Towards Profits
Maintaining hydraulic machinery is no different than brushing your teeth. Both require the right tools and attention to keep them in top condition. Discover how removing grit and grime from hydraulic fluids regularly with proper filtration extends machine life and saves money. It's easier than having to brush three times daily.
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Getting Nailed on Imports
The nail industry took a major hit recently with foreign manufacturers flooding the market with less than fair value pricing. Resulting complaints filed by several U.S. nail manufacturers to the Commerce Department forced preliminary anti-dumping duties. Combined with soaring steel costs, this is driving nail and fastener prices ever higher.
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Portable Cutter Slices Like Butter
When you need to speed the cutting of mild steel items like bolts, threaded rods, and hasps, this cordless steel cutting power tool gets the job done fast. A push button starts the four to five-second cutting cycle. The ram automatically retracts, readying the tool for another go. Compact and lightweight design allows access to tight spaces.
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igus to Exhibit at ATX East
igus Inc.
igus® will be promoting its maintenance-free slide tables at ATX East. They incorporate self-lubricating plastic liners, which possess a low coefficient of friction and wear resistance. DryLin lasts in applications where expensive ball screw systems fail. igus will be exhibiting at booth #3150 at the New York show, which runs from June 3-5.
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Faster Delivery of Linear Bearings and Shafting
Danaher Motion
In stock now for fast shipment in the Midwest and New England are the most popular Thomson linear bearing components and shafting through a new manufacturer's stocking program. Includes cut-to-length and machined 60 Case Shafting; most popular inch and metric "A", Super, and SuperSmart bearings, matching pillow blocks, and seals.
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Wide Range Temperature, Pressure, and Fluid Resistant Hydraulic Cylinder Sealing Systems
Simrit-Division of Freudenberg-NOK
Increasing industry challenges — including temperature resistance, hydrolysis resistance, and bio-friendly fluid compatibility — continue to drive demands for better performing seal designs and materials. Your Technology Specialist Simrit introduces its new materials NOK U641 and NOK UH05 urethane, and G928 HNBR in response to those industry demands.
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Need a Solution? Try Fineblanking.
Precision Resource Inc.
Fineblanking is a high volume and
extremely accurate stamping process creating metal parts with cleanly sheared
edges, excellent flatness, and tight dimensional and true position tolerances. Precision Resource has six facilities in North
America providing fineblanked parts with a wide range of secondary
processing.
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Powerful PVC Breaks the Mold
In applications where ordinary thermoplastic PVC materials fail, this specially engineered glass fiber reinforced PVC can handle many times the impact force. It uses either long or short reinforcing glass fibers for added stiffness and strength, but with less weight. Like standard PVC, this improved material can be extruded or injection molded.
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Can Science Save the Day?
Greenhouse gases may be the modern day equivalent of 'The Blob' threatening life on earth. As in the movies, scientists come to our rescue with amazing technological solutions. Read how one incredible low-cost material called hyperbranched aluminosilica might bond with carbon dioxide gas to be locked away forever, just like in the movies.
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No Rust for the Wicked
In the nasty environments of waste treatment, pulp mills, or offshore oil rigs, corrosive conditions easily eat standard connectors. But stainless steel stands up to almost any abuse. These stainless liquidtight connectors withstand dust, dirt, oil, water, and chemicals while delivering excellent performance in the worst conditions.
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Tying Up Security Tampering
You might think keeping packages, cabinets, and cloth bags secure requires something high strength. But the idea is to track items and to prevent product tampering. These polypropylene security ties, plastic and steel padlocks, and assorted cargo seals give shippers and manufacturers an easy way to mark merchandise and prevent pilfering.
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Locking Air Cylinder
SMC Corporation of America
Needing a cylinder to hold position in the event of a loss of air pressure? The CBM2 series cylinder from SMC Corporation of America could be your answer. The CBM2 integrates a stainless steel, round body cylinder with an end of stroke locking feature.
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Quick Deliveries on Precision Shafting
LinTech
Lintech's 1060 case hardened steel shafting, linear bearings, and shaft assemblies are available in both inch and metric diameters for quick delivery. Standard and custom assemblies, along with various machining options are available. Lintech also provides ball screw assemblies and positioning systems. Please visit us at www.LintechMotion.com.
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Need Coupling? Check Out NBK's Wide Variety Coupling Selection
Nabeya Bi-tech Kaisha (NBK)
NBK(Nabeya Bi-tech Kaisha) has a variety of flexible shaft couplings line-up, such as slit-type, jaw-type, oldham-type, disc-type, gum-type, bellows-type, and rigid-type. Let us help you find what you need with our top industry engineers. We are flexible as can be, and we can customize every component to your needs.
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Flexible Shafts Solve Rotary Motion Problems
S.S. White Technologies, Inc.
Flexible shafts transmit rotary motion through bends and around curves. They solve problems of shaft misalignment, often replacing universal joints. Flexible shafts are used throughout the automotive, aerospace, and medical industries. S.S. White invented the flexible shaft over 100 years ago and continues as the world leader in design and manufacturing.
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A Better Job Search by Design
Dice
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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To remain competitive in world markets, today's business relies on various technological solutions to track, automate, and collect productivity data. But one asset that every business still relies on is the individual employee. This IMPO magazine article explains how smart companies use kaizen events to boost productivity and sales by merging robotics with complex operations requiring skilled human supervision. They successfully cut waste and increase production speed to gain their edge.
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Breathing a Sigh of Relief
A simple science class experiment combined with advanced materials may one day power our economy. The example could deliver all of our energy needs and offer the promise of kicking the oil habit. This fully renewable power source can be applied with the added advantage of producing power, heat, and life-giving oxygen. The space program and hybrid vehicles already take advantage of this amazing PEM-based water electrolyzer technology.
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Share Your Thoughts . . . Join a Conversation About This Month's Topic...
Materials Mayhem or Making Money
How are skyrocketing prices affecting your business? How long can you endure these conditions and what can we do, if anything, to slow runaway raw material prices?
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