Design News - February 17, 2003

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Cover Story

Turning Point

For all the effort to find the right components and shoehorn them in, the product really hinges on -- a hinge

Departments

Expo
Software/Hardware
Fastening/Joining/Assembly
Shield Eases Installation, Boosts Protection
Electronics
Materials
Fluid Power
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Calamities
The Case of the Acid Test
BMOC
Tuned In
Weblog
Animal Crackers
Designer's Corner
Shock therapy
Rant
Why Every Engineer Needs Google
Ask
Ask The Search Engineer
Slant
Wired by Software
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
My View
This Is Only a Test

Feature

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