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Please do not adjust your monitor: Design Product News
gets a "fashion" makeover 

When Design Product News was launched back in 1973, bellbottom trousers were still the fashion, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada and U.S. troops were in South Vietnam.

The graphical design of the magazine reflected the times and the DPN logo became a recognizable icon in the industry. But as any industrial designer knows, it's the  container that makes a consumer want to pick up and play with the product.

So the time has come to give our design an updated "3D" look that I hope jumps out at you (in a pleasing, not a recoil-in-horror-kind-of-way).

Inside your September 2005 edition of DPN, we've added a table of contents page to provide a time-efficient snapshot of the issue, but otherwise you'll find the same quality content you've applauded for over 30 years, backed by the solid editorial team behind it.

Also for many of you – just to make sure the magazine content still meets with your approval – look for the 2005 DPN Reader Survey landing in your desktop e-mailbox next week.

Please give us two minutes of your valuable time when the survey arrives – and we'll enter your name into a random draw for prizes such as a portable DVD player and a Taylor Made brand golf driver!

Profitable surfing!
Mike Edwards, Editor,
DPN Magazine medwards@clbmedia.ca
Past e-LETTERs: go to dpncanada.com, then click Articles

USEFUL SITES

Product of the Day. Every business day, a new product – from engineered materials and power transmission to motion control and fasteners – is presented at dpncanada.com by DPN magazine.

3D printing student contest. The second annual Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge presented by Dimension 3D Printing Group invites high school and college students to submit .stl files to dimensionprinting.com.

Power drive standards. NEMA has released two standards on ac power drive systems that are adaptations from IEC standards (nema.org).

Clamping systems. A wide range of stainless steel clamping, fastening and bundling products from BAND-IT (band-it-idex.com).

Multipurpose ac drive. The Reliance Electric GV6000 multipurpose industrial ac drive comes with an Operator Interface Module (OIM) to provide metering, programming and operator control. The drive's OIM is removable and contains CopyCat functionality for transferring parameter sets between drives.

Sensors adds fieldbus outputs. MTS Sensors has announced the R-Series sensor, part of the Temposonics line of magnetostrictive position sensors, is now offered with standard Fieldbus outputs.

Relays rated to 200k cycles. IDEC Corp. has introduced the RJ and RQ series to its General Purpose relay line. Operational life is 200k cycles at full ac resistive load for the RJ relay. Both the RJ and RQ series have contact ratings of 12 A, 1 Form C (SPDT) and 8 A, 2 Form C (DPDT).

Heat resistant TPE alloy. GLS Corp. has announced Versaflex CL 2200 TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) alloys are engineered to include water-clarity and enhanced heat resistance.

 

Coming in the New Look
  September DPN



• PTDA Canadian conference report
• Hydraulics refreshes Welland Canal
• Skills challenge coming to Edmonton
• Motion Control feature report
• Technical marketing to Latin America

UPCOMING EVENTS

September 21, 2005. Woodbridge, ON. Web Tension Control Lunch 'N Learn Seminar hosted by Electromate features products from Cleveland Motion Control's Web Tension Division.

October 17-20, 2005. Toronto. Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, including the National Factory Automation Show and Canadian Machine Tool Show (reedexpo.ca/cmts).

October 18-20, 2005. Las Vegas. Power Transmission Distributors' Association PTDA 2005 Industry Summit at Bally's Las Vegas (ptda.org).

October 20, 2005. Toronto. The 6th Annual STARS Gala in support of technology education in Canada presented by the Yves Landry Foundation (ylandryfund.org).

November 5-11, 2005. Orlando. The 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (asme.org).

November 16-17, 2005. St. Louis. Rockwell Automation will host the 14th annual Automation Fair, a free educational forum created to showcase the latest ways manufacturers can use industrial automation technology (automationfair.com).

November 28-December 1, 2005. Orlando. Autodesk University 2005 software conference at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort (autodeskevents.com/au2005/).


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