Mechanical Design Practice

I still remember the first time a customer's safety engineer asked me whether a junction box I'd designed was rated for ...

Somewhere around my fifth or sixth year as a contract mechanical designer, I sat through a machine safety audit where an...

Twenty years of contract mechanical design has taken me through automotive, semiconductor, and general industrial machin...

Salt air has a way of humbling mechanical designers who've spent their careers in clean, climate-controlled factories. I...

Mobile robots and AGVs look deceptively simple from the outside — a box on wheels moving around a factory floor — but th...

I've spent a good chunk of my twenty years as a contract mechanical designer bouncing between automotive lines and semic...

Designing a machine that touches food is a different discipline from designing a machine that touches almost anything el...

Designing mechanical equipment that operates inside a semiconductor fab forces you to unlearn a lot of habits that work ...

A finished 3D model and a clean drawing set feel like the end of the job, but on the shop floor they're really just the ...

The first time I was pulled onto a medical device project after years of designing production equipment for automotive a...