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Ergonomic Guide to a Safer, More Efficient Connector-Assembly Workplace

Jim Connors David Erickson
Various types of connectors are used in home appliances and air-conditioning systems to create reliable contacts between different parts of electric circuits. In recent years, the number and types of …
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Materials

Standard Related to Metals in Additive Manufacturing

Alex Kitt Ravi Rajamure Mark Barfoot
In the last ten years metal additive manufacturing (AM) has transitioned from a rapid prototyping tool to a production tool. This exciting evolution is evidenced by production examples including GE’s …
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The Right Materials for Medical Devices

Ellen Turner
The public is increasingly engaged in matters of health literacy, particularly around issues of hospital hygiene. People are coming to understand that infection rates can be reduced through equipment designed …
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Integrating Haptic Feedback into Design

Chris Ullrich
Touch-sensitive surfaces have become ubiquitous in our modern world. Although touchpads made their debut in the early 1980s as a mouse replacement for portable computers, it wasn’t until the advent …
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Can You Think Of One Material That Does More Than Plastics?

The Plastics Industry Association
Blood flows from the vena cava into the right atrium of a man’s heart. A valve opens and allows the blood to flow into the right ventricle, then closes, allowing …
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HVAC

Flow-Fasteners for HVAC Assembly Challenges

Joshua Parten Lori Logan
HVAC products and services offered to the consumer come with little to no room for revamping. As the cost of energy continues to rise, manufacturers have come under pressure to …
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Technology

Advice for Designing Home Healthcare Devices

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Leah Pickett
As recently as five years ago, medical devices for in-home use were mostly analog, as opposed to digital, and characteristically ugly, as opposed to sleek. This is no longer the …

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