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Industrial networking: Intelligence from the ground up
technology, successful and transparent industrial networking and control from the enterprise level to the device level are about as rare as the paperless office. The goal of such systems -- making money, maintaining good customer relationships, and improving productivity up and down the supply chain...
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Industrial Design
. Commercial & Industrial. The RC 5500 Rider Counterbalance Lift Truck for distribution centers is used primarily to load and unload trailers. The trucks can transport pallets weighing up to 4,000 lb and stack them up to 20 ft high. During a typical work shift, the machines repeatedly negotiate tight spaces found...
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Industrial Design: Is all industrial design software the same?
Alias used to be the one real choice for industrial-design software. Today there are many. Besides Alias ($25,000), good packages include Rhino ($895), ICEM ($2,300 and up), NX (a lot, depending on what bundle you pick), and even SolidWorks ($3,995). So besides price, how do you decide? The only...
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Industrial role for USB
in series. However, most users find 5 m long enough to connect a rack-mounted device to a rack-mounted HMI. Several companies offer USB hub extenders that boost the host-to-device distance up to 500 m. The extenders give industrial customers high-speed USB data streaming over distances comparable...
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The art and science of Industrial Design
A value engineering approach makes for great product designs. Industrial design is about more than just styling. A good industrial-design team must also consider technical details such as materials, draft angles, and manufacturing processes to create prototypes that product engineers can use...
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Hot new industrial designs
The 2003 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), cosponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week magazine, honored 121 winners with 38 Golds, 38 Silvers, and 45 Bronzes. Major design trends for entries included getting back to basics and everyday problem...
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Industrial automation without wires
wires or cables. For the same reasons, it has the potential to change the face of industrial automation. Bluetooth is a specification for short-range radio links between computers, printers, cell phones, and other portable equipment. Since it centers around a small, inexpensive, low-power radio chip...
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Reinventing the industrial shock absorber
the industrial shock absorber. March 23, 2000. Printer-friendly version. ACE Magnum Group shock absorbers, which include adjustable and self-compensating models, offer up to 3.9 times the effective weight capacity of standard models without increasing size or cost. Adjustable shock absorbers are widely used...
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Reinventing the industrial shock absorber
the industrial shock absorber. March 23, 2000. MD Staff. Printer-friendly version. ACE Magnum Group shock absorbers, which include adjustable and selfcompensating models, offer up to 3.9 times the effective weight capacity of standard models without increasing size or cost. Adjustable shock absorbers...
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New Tools for Industrial Automation
, users can use a single development environment to address all of their industrial control, motion, data acquisition, and monitoring tasks. Each SNAP-SCM-MCH-16 motion module can communicate with up to 16 axes of stepper motion, accomplished with the use of up to four SNAP-SCM-BB4 breakthrough...