Working with Dimensional Tolerances

Jared Rader — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:50:06 -0500

Authored by:
Stefan Menin
Mechanical Engineer Ondrives.US Corp.
Freeport, N.Y.
Edited by Kenneth J. Korane
ken.korane@penton.com
Key points:
• Always use dimensional tolerances.

Letters 5/10/2012

Jared Rader — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:52:52 -0500

Kids and baseball: They never change

The establishment, to use an old 60s term, is always harping on the college grads, complaining they aren’t as educated or qualified as they themselves were at that age. But one reader points out that the older generation never seems to take responsibility for educating and training those college grads. In another vein, readers agreed with Ken Korane’s satiric plea for Congress to mandate strike-zone-detection technology for major-league baseball.

Why aren’t more manufacturers embracing sustainable metalworking?

Jared Rader — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:30:36 -0500

Doug Watts, MAG Americas, Hebron, Ky.

Union or not, engineers' salaries are about the same

Jared Rader — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:45:01 -0500

Back in January, I wrote a commentary asking why the vast majority of engineers are dead set against joining or forming labor unions (“Time for engineers to think about unionizing? “Jan. 19). Most of the answers I received fell into three broad categories:

The wind industry needs more inventors

Jared Rader — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:43:22 -0500

Next time your TV viewing habits include watching the Cleveland Indians playing at home, keep an eye out for the ballpark’s newly installed wind turbine. It is an innovative design, but it’s only there because the Indians didn’t have to pay for much of it.

What is Systems-Driven Development?

Jared Rader — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:02:40 -0500

Authored by:
Stefan Jockusch
Vice President Product Development Mechatronics, S
iemens Industry Sector
Siemens PLM software
Troy, Mich.
Edited by Leslie Gordon
leslie.gordon@penton.com
Twitter
@LeslieGordon
Key points;

Engineering salaries staying ahead of the curve

Jared Rader — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:50:11 -0500

Authored by:
Victoria Burt
Contributing
Editor Edited by Stephen Mraz and Leland Teschler
stephen.mraz@penton.com, leland.teschler@ penton.com

Predictive modeling can help manufacturers

Jared Rader — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:03:47 -0500

Manufacturing engineers are often handed product designs that lack essential elements. Unfortunately, when production fails, blame falls on manufacturing engineers who were “unable to develop” the design handed to them, causing unhappy surprises throughout the organization.

“Speaking” design

Jared Rader — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:01:46 -0500

Authored by:
Craig Miloscia
President
Optic Lingo Inc.
Stow, Ohio
Edited by Leslie Gordon
leslie.gordon@penton.com,
Twitter @LeslieGordon
Resources:
Optic Lingo Inc.

Form should follow function, and more

Jared Rader — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:57:22 -0500

Good design should be elegant, useful, and as simple as possible. This certainly seems like a possible goal. So why is there so much bad design? My pet peeve: plastic consumer packaging. The process of opening a blister or clamshell often seems to require a hacksaw, welding torch, and jackhammer.

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