Engineers often design carriages that move back and forth atop of a pair of parallel nonrotating shafts. These shafts must remain parallel or the carriage will wedge to a dead stop. So it is important ...

Shaft design veteran Alex Dee co-founded Aretera with a straightforward but subversive thesis: Stability and stiffness aren't the same. The post The story behind Aretera’s first-of-its-kind shaft ...

Noncontact magnetic rotary encoders are hard to beat when it comes to measuring rotary motion in machinery, as they are relatively small, strong, and inexpensive devices compared to traditional ...