Huntington Indiana's Pyle Industries has long been a pioneer in the development and manufacture of "Made in the U.S.A." sound systems for cars, trucks and the home. The first mobile high-power woofers...

If the operation of a real-life candy processing facility were as delightful and exciting as that run by the fictional hero Willy Wonka, there would be little need for magazines such as Food...

Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight...

The high silt and gravel content of local water wells in parts of Illinois and Wisconsin causes scouring, corrosion and shortened lives for the pumps operating in those wells. However, the application...

First flown in 1959, the Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainer is one of the true "workhouses" of the United States Air Force. Over 60,000 pilots have learned supersonic techniques, aerobatics, formation,...

When San Jose California's Exatron engineered their latest generation of integrated circuit (I.C.) handling equipment, protection from damage due to electro-static discharge (ESD) was a top priority....

Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Hard, Surface Enhancement Applied On International Space Station's Quick Disconnect Couplings Eliminates Wear, Leaks, and Contamination In the harsh vacuum and low temperatures of...

If you work with calendar rolls, adhesive pumps, mixing kettles, mixer blades, rolls, rails, conveyors, frames, wheels, gears, dispensers, sealers, extruders, testers, applicators or a whole host of...

For more than four decades, Worcester Controls Corporation has been on the leading edge of ball valve and flow control technology. The Marlborough (Mass.) company has always prided itself on making...

Despite several decades of advances in materials science and coating formulations, engineers are still searching for release coatings able to withstand temperatures above 500° F and finding that...

Design engineers, operating engineers, and equipment maintenance specialists in the oil and gas industry are increasingly turning to high-tech surface enhancement coatings that allow oil and gas...

Following the recent successful landings of the 'Opportunity' and 'Spirit' Rovers on Mars, NASA has become more open about its investigations into a potential manned lunar mission and a manned...

With today's oil and gas wells pushing deeper and deeper, metal drilling tools have to contend with increasingly corrosive conditions. Deep wells not only tend to exhibit concentrations of sour gas...

Keeping packaging equipment up and running is top priority for engineers and plant personnel. Faced with ever-increasing productivity benchmarks based on fast and efficient operation, packaging...

Processing and packaging applications in the food and drug industries have many criteria in common, because both industries must meet stringent standards developed to guarantee the utmost safety of...

High-Tech, Space-Age Metal Surface Enhancement Coating Solves Wear and Release Problems for Pine Instrument Company's Gyratory Compaction Asphalt Testers The development of computer-controlled asphalt...

At the end of August, Mars, the fourth rock from the sun, was less than 35 million miles away from the Earth causing scientists and enthusiastic amateurs to stay up all night for a glimpse of the red...

Understanding the consequences of machinery failure is a given for Spyraflo,a bearings manufacturer based out of Atlanta, GA, that develops custom bearing solutions designed to deliver...

Machine builders have long used engineered coatings to reduce wear. In the pharmaceutical industry, FDA regulations rule out many common coatings in product-contact applications, and some acceptable...