Pins provide a simple and effective way to join parts. Fasteners are usually the smallest, least-expensive components within a machine, but OEMs depend on them to hold entire assemblies together — ...

Intelligent fastening technology will allow maintenance personnel equipped with wireless devices to unfasten remotely avionics and other mission-critical electronics panels in aircraft, ships and ...

Getting the best fastener can often be an afterthought on a major design project, and this can lead to problems. For example, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty trucks were having ...

In the universe of fastening and joining technologies available for attaching thin metal assemblies, self-clinching fasteners display a wide array of advantages. Their overarching function is to ...

Every mechanical engineer knows the golden rule of hardware design: use standard, off-the-shelf components whenever possible ...

Extremely small micro fasteners have made significant inroads in the global marketplace, especially with the ongoing evolution of smaller, lighter, and thinner subcompact consumer electronic devices ...