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•	Power Tools: Technology Makes and Impact

•	Adhesives for Trailer Assembly

•	State of the Profession 2009: Ready for the Recovery

•	We Fed It: One Bowl Better Than Two

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IAI America, Inc.—TT (Table Top Robot)
IAI's TT robot is a high performance self-contained unit with three-dimensional arc interpolation and path movement.

CBM Inc.—Custom Built Machinery
CBM provides Total Automation and Integration Solutions customized to accommodate your production needs, large and small.

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Dispense Thicker Assembly Fluids with Greater Speed and Less Hand Fatigue
Operator fatigue, inconsistent shot size, and slow production speeds are common problems when trying to make small deposits of high viscosity assembly fluids like silicones, greases and epoxies.

How To Frost a Big Strudel
You’ve built a machine to frost the market’s largest apple strudel. Prefect swirls of gooey confection fall into place during the customer demo. Motion is smooth and accurate in part because of the linear incremental encoder for position feedback. Nothing-extraordinary here. It’s not rocket science, it’s strudel frosting! Then the simulated crisis: you cut power, everything stops…. The pattern of movement is interrupted.

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Power Tools: Technology Makes and Impact
New technology gives impact wrenches the ability to measure torque and angle.

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