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Product Review

Eubanks Makes it Easy to Cut & Strip Big Cable
The Eubanks 4040 cable stripper has tremendous power for cutting and stripping tough cables up to 2/0 AWG.

Tri-Star Industries—Threaded Inserts for Plastics
Tri-Star’s 20-page, full-color catalog details their complete line of Threaded Inserts, Precision Machined Products, Compression Limiters and Knurled Spacers.

How To Guides

Specify Multi-functioning End-of-Arm Tooling for Robotic Workcells
Today’s robotic work cells are increasingly becoming more complex. From de-molding to assembly and packaging, the robot is being asked to do more—and much of this falls on the end-of-arm tooling (also called EOAT or end effecter).

How To Frost a Big Strudel
You’ve built a machine to frost the market’s largest apple strudel. Prefect swirls of gooey confection fall into place during the customer demo. Motion is smooth and accurate in part because of the linear incremental encoder for position feedback. Nothing-extraordinary here. It’s not rocket science, it’s strudel frosting! Then the simulated crisis: you cut power, everything stops…. The pattern of movement is interrupted.

Cover Story

Assemblers Harness Wind Power
Demand for wind power is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. However, wind turbine technology needs to evolve. Engineers are currently struggling to make the devices larger, taller, less expensive , more reliable and more efficient.

by Austin Weber