New product design engineers depend greatly on design and production methods learned through education, recurrent application, and empirical success. Several alternative methods are frequently ...

New product development (NPD) teams are constantly searching for a competitive advantage that will allow them to create electronic devices that are smaller, appliances that are more reliable, vehicles ...

InnoForm cold-forming taps from Emuge Corp. (www.emuge.com) are available in 30 different designs and various shapes to thread regular steel, hardened steels, wrought aluminum alloys, nonferrous ...

The strength of some internal threads is more sensitive to tap diameter than previously thought. • Cold-formed threads are no stronger than cut threads when holes are correctly sized. • Cut threads ...