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Home › Trades › Archive for Machine Design › Page 3

Category: Machine Design

Mechanical machine design, CAD, 3D design, drawing on napkins

The Bite Too Big to Chew

By Frank Posted on April 17, 2011 Posted in Machine Design, quoting Tagged with education, Hydraulic, quoting and bidding

This is the loading station of a machine that was one of the last jobs I did with my small machine building company. It is a precision hydraulic press for torque converters. During the years of 2005-2006 we had acquired …

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P&ID and Machine Design

By Frank Posted on February 24, 2011 Posted in Controls Design, Machine Design, Software & Programming Tagged with design, software

The process industry has used P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams) for many years as a method of describing the relationships between piping, instrumentation and system components. Usually this is applied to chemical, batching or fluid transfer projects and is nearly …

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The Engineering and Project Notebook

By Frank Posted on February 4, 2011 Posted in Controls Design, Machine Design, Trades Tagged with design

Back when I was in engineering school one of the requirements for nearly every class was to keep an engineering notebook. Typically it consisted of a bound book with graph or engineering paper where we would keep a chronological record …

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The Value of Education

By Frank Posted on February 2, 2011 Posted in Controls Design, Machine Design, Trades Tagged with design, education, hiring

In my previous life as owner of an automation and machine building company, part of my job was the hiring of employees. After placing an ad in the local paper I would usually receive 20 or more resumes for a …

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