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Thursday, December 16th, 2010This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge blog: http://baselodge.com/blog/2010/12/iphones-the-us-china-trade-deficit/ Apple’s wildly successful iPhone line is a bright shining testimony to American design and engineering. Can it really be that such a great American product is actually adding to the United States’ trade deficit with China? Given the current way trade deficits and surpluses are calculated, [...]
Castings – Part 1: An Introduction
Friday, August 6th, 2010Almost anything your mind can conceive of that requires a product to be cast or formed can be manufactured. We will save a discussion of plastics and other materials for later, but if your design requires a mold or die and a metal casting, you have many options. Your specific application will drive the material, [...]
Online Design Help for Enclosures and Front Panels
Friday, June 4th, 2010XTech‘s online store just got a lot better. Customers can now access a wide array of design resources like drawings and 3D models. In addition, the number of products available for purchase in the online store has increased dramatically. Do you need an extruded enclosure? A standard front panel? A filler panel? No problem. The [...]
XTech & Triple E Make an Impression
Friday, April 30th, 2010This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge Blog. I’m sitting at the Boston airport preparing to return to Baselodge Country. I just spent a couple of days with the XTech and Triple E team for the Extrusion Technology Global Sales Meeting in Taunton, MA. There is no substitute for meeting face-to-face with the people who [...]
xTCA Front-Panel Innovation
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) out of Randolph, MA has released a video providing an overview of their innovation in xTCA products. Steve Richardson and Matt Travers discuss how this has been applied to their AdvancedTCA, AMC, MicroTCA, and Ruggedized MicroTCA products. The link to the video is here.
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