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Frame-based Robotic Tooling
Widely used for parts handling and packaging, grippers employing an extruded aluminum framework are cost-effective and flexible.
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 | Last Call for "Assembly Plant of the Year" Award Nominations!
In 2008, ASSEMBLY magazine is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its Assembly Plant of the Year award. The first four recipients of the award were each involved in diverse industries and were located in different parts of the country. However, they each shared something in common: a keen embrace of lean manufacturing and a desire for continuous improvement.
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 | Terminating Wires Efficiently
Minimizing changeover times is crucial to leveraging the full potential of today’s automated wire termination machines.
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 | Assembly in Action: Automation Improves Efficiency, Ergonomics
A little over 300 years ago—in 1689 to be precise—King Charles XI of Sweden decreed that a weapons factory be built in the town of Huskvarna. A few decades later, some of the artisans work-ing there switched from crafting firearms to making a peaceful precision product—sewing machines.
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