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March 08, 2022Volume 18 Issue 10


Image - New! Tapered Section Retaining Rings (circlips): Designed for high-thrust loads and heavy-duty applications
New! Tapered Section Retaining Rings (circlips): Designed for high-thrust loads and heavy-duty applications
When you are in need of a quick and economical heavy-duty ring, Smalley's newest standard series of Tapered Section Retaining Rings (circlips) is here to secure your assembly. Smalley has recently partnered with Beneri, the leading Italian circlip manufacturer since 1958, to bring you even more retaining ring solutions at the same quality you trust.
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In this issue of Designfax

  • Consumer Reports: Mainstream car brands beat luxury
  • New flame-retardant resin for 3D printing
  • Speed of sound measures elasticity for first time
  • Airbus to test liquid hydrogen-powered engine on A380
  • Meet 2FGP20, a versatile palletizing gripper
  • Engineer's Toolbox: 12 key factors in bellows design
  • What every designer needs to know about CNC tolerances
  • Drilling steel just got faster and more efficient
  • Space Applications: Smallest rad-tolerant storage
  • Bearing protection standard on Food Safe motors
  • Stanley Black & Decker first customer for Desktop Metal mass-production printer
  • Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action
    • KUKA cobot: How to build a collaborative robo cell
    • What is a vehicle's spring rate?
  • Most Popular Last Issue
    • Alloy claimed better for soldering ADAS systems
    • Einstein's general relativity measured at mm scale
    • Porsche Macan T: Touring taken up a notch
  • New Products
    • Electrical, Mechanical, Motion
    Cover Image: Airbus ZEROe A380 MSN1 demonstrator [© AIRBUS S.A.S 2022]

News

Algorithm used to predict mechanical properties of metals could shorten quality testing and research by months

New and inexpensive catalyst speeds production of oxygen from water

Volvo Cars tests new wireless charging technology developed in U.S.

Credit card-size terahertz-focusing device created by MIT researchers



Feature articles
Consumer Reports: Mainstream car brands beat out luxury ones in 2022 Annual Car Brand Rankings

The best cars on the road are largely made by Japanese automakers, according to the latest Brand Report Card rankings from Consumer Reports of the most well-performing, safe, and reliable vehicles.
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Learn how a mechatronics-based gripper eliminates pneumatics using FAULHABER drive system technology.


Image - New flame-retardant resin for 3D printing
New flame-retardant resin for 3D printing
3D-printing tech company Carbon has introduced an all-new photopolymer resin called EPX 86FR that the company says offers an unmatched combination of flame retardance, functional toughness, high strength, and long-term stability for end-use parts, functional prototypes, and tools in the automotive and industrial sectors.
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Image - Speed of sound used to measure elasticity of materials for first time
Speed of sound used to measure elasticity of materials for first time
Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK have devised a revolutionary new technique for measuring the microscopic elasticity of materials such as metals. It has huge potential in fields such as aerospace to understand the performance of new materials and manufacturing processes.
Read the full article.

Image - Airbus to test liquid hydrogen-powered engine on A380 demonstrator -- world's largest passenger airliner
Airbus to test liquid hydrogen-powered engine on A380 demonstrator -- world's largest passenger airliner
Airbus is developing a real-world testbed to ground and flight test a direct combustion engine fueled by hydrogen on an A380 aircraft, the world's largest airliner. [Note: Inside-look video in this article.]
Read the full article.

Image - Things are about to change -- meet 2FGP20, a versatile palletizing gripper
Things are about to change -- meet 2FGP20, a versatile palletizing gripper
Palletizing just got easier and more affordable with the 2FGP20 from OnRobot, an off-the-shelf electric gripper with a payload of up to 20kg and endless customization possibilities to fit any automation needs. The 2FGP20 is an ideal solution that can be deployed and redeployed for multiple processes and handling different parts.
Learn more about the 2FGP20.
Learn more about palletizing.

Image - Engineer's Toolbox: 12 key factors in bellows design
Engineer's Toolbox: 12 key factors in bellows design
What do you need to know to design your own custom bellows? The experts at Servometer (a division of MW Industries) have prepared this handy resource for you. Typical bellows applications include: volume compensators, actuators, electrical spring contacts, pressure switches and transducers, flexible shaft couplings, and more.
Read the full article.

Image - What every designer needs to know about CNC tolerances
What every designer needs to know about CNC tolerances
Learn about tolerances for CNC machining from Xometry, including the implications for tighter tolerances and how they can affect costs, the manufacturing process, inspection options, and materials. Xometry has a great ebook on "Mastering Tolerances for CNC Machined Parts" available too.
Read this informative Xometry blog.

Image - Drilling steel just got faster and more efficient
Drilling steel just got faster and more efficient
Sandvik Coromant has launched an upgraded CoroDrill 860 assortment to offer customers improved productivity in drilling steel. The advanced -PM geometry offers high-performance drilling in ISO P steels while significantly improving tool life. The drill features a new grade, with an improved multi-layer physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating. The results are enhanced wear resistance, better tool life, and an overall increase in productivity -- and thereby reduced cost per component. The drill is suited to applications in the automotive, general engineering, die and mold, and power-generation industries.
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Image - Space Applications: Smallest rad-tolerant network storage
Space Applications: Smallest rad-tolerant network storage
Aitech Systems has released the most compact network storage device available for use in near-earth-orbit and low-earth-orbit space applications. With a raw storage capacity of almost 1 TB, the new S999 Aitech is a 2.5-in. solid state drive (SSD) for high-performance spacecraft data processing or distributed computing systems in satellites and human-rated platforms.
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Image - Bearing protection standard on Food Safe motors
Bearing protection standard on Food Safe motors
AEGIS Shaft Grounding Rings, which mitigate the effects of bearing currents caused by variable frequency drives, have been made standard equipment on the Baldor-Reliance Food Safe line of motors. The addition of the internal shaft grounding ring provides increased motor reliability and stops early bearing failure from EDM. The Baldor Food Safe line consists of 25 models with horsepower ratings from 1/2 to 30 hp. They are ideal for food processing, high-pressure washdown, sanitary washdown, and outdoor or caustic environment applications. AEGIS Shaft Grounding Rings are also a retrofit option.
Learn more about AEGIS Bearing Protection.
Learn more about Baldor Food Safe motors.

Image - Stanley Black & Decker first customer for Desktop Metal P-50 mass-production metal 3D printer
Stanley Black & Decker first customer for Desktop Metal P-50 mass-production metal 3D printer
Desktop Metal has shipped its first Production System P-50 printer to Stanley Black & Decker for mass production of end-use metal parts. The P-50 is the product of nearly $100 million in investment and a four-year development program and is touted as "the world's fastest way to 3D print metal parts at scale." It is designed to achieve speeds up to 100 times those of legacy powder bed fusion additive manufacturing technologies and enable production quantities of up to millions of parts per year.
Learn more.

Most popular last issue

Image - Alloy claimed to be better for soldering ADAS systems -- may help OEMS reduce risk of recalls
Alloy claimed to be better for soldering ADAS systems -- may help OEMS reduce risk of recalls
A global automotive materials company has demonstrated the reliability benefits of a unique alloy that it says can replace traditional tin/silver/copper (SAC) alloys in the design of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Internal tests suggest the alloy can play a significant role in helping automotive OEMs eliminate the risk of solder fractures -- a potential cause of failure in ADAS hardware.
Read the full article.

Image - Einstein's general relativity time dilation measured at millimeter scale
Einstein's general relativity time dilation measured at millimeter scale
Physicists at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, CO, have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks separated by just a millimeter tick at different rates.
Read the full article.

Image - Porsche Macan T: Touring taken up a notch
Porsche Macan T: Touring taken up a notch
How do you make Porsche's bestselling model for 2021 even better? You crank up the sporty styling and agility, and you give it a heritage badge that was reserved exclusively for the 718 and 911 models: T for "Touring." Porsche Cars North America will add the Macan T to its 2023 model year range. This is the first four-door sports car -- and first SUV -- that will bear the special designation for the brand.
Read the full article.

Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action
KUKA cobot: How to build a collaborative robotic cell
LBR iiwa is KUKA's robot for collaborative applications where people and robots share spaces. See how easy it is to use hands-on training to teach this lightweight little 7-axis robo worker, which features redundant torque sensors in each joint, to carry out assigned tasks safely and effectively.
View the video.

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What is a vehicle's spring rate -- and why is it important?
The automotive experts over at QA1 run through spring rate basics (like what's the best way to get an accurate measurement of your spring rate?) and talk about why being over- or undersprung has consequences for your driving dynamics and your vehicle.
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