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 | How To 10 Steps To Selecting the Perfect Workbench
Behind the “simple” task of purchasing a workbench lurk a number of considerations. Whether you are looking for assembly workstations, technical workstations, height-adjustable workstations or accessory systems, follow these steps to choose the right solution.
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 | How To Improve First-Time Yield
There is little debate over the importance of first-time yield in a manufacturing operation: eliminating scrap, minimizing rework, reducing cycle times--all have a significant impact on the final product cost. Therefore, it is essential to optimize critical manufacturing processes to ensure FTY is maximized. This article describes a simple five step procedure that helps maximize and maintain manufacturing yields.
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 | How To Select a Force/Torque Sensor for Robotic Assembly
When a robot is equipped with a force or torque sensor that measures six degrees of freedom, the interaction forces can be measured, fed back to the controller, and used to modify the trajectory of the robot. This allows robots to perform assembly tasks such as fitting splined parts together or inserting pistons into bores.
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 | How To Press and Gauge to a Critical Dimension in a Single Station Using a Servo Press
New techniques are needed to reach the assembly demands of the ever increasing part complexities and quality requirements in manufacturing today. One of these techniques is to gauge and make in the same station. This technique incorporates the gauging and assembly into a simultaneous or sequenced process that is performed in a single station. The gauged values are used as feedback to control the assembly process.
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 | How To Reduce Your Assembly Expenditure While Increasing Your ROI
Most companies are avoiding large capital investments and instead concentrating on manually loaded “single-cell solutions” or “smart workbenches.” In operation, these manual smart workbenches are just as reliable as automated systems. Even with alternating operators, a well-designed manual system presents no additional processing difficulties.
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 | How To Use Vacuum-Aided Potting
Simply pouring potting material over a coil does not prevent corrosion. The dispensing material or the tiny gaps between the wire coils may contain air trapped within. This significantly reduces high-voltage insulation or ruins it altogether. Therefore, to ensure an impregnation that is completely free of air bubbles, the entire preparation, feeding and metering process must be carried out in a vacuum.
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 | Choose the Right Dispense Valve
Choosing a dispense valve for a specific fluid or application can be confusing. Here are some things to consider before making a final decision.
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 | How To Use Standard Modular Components to Simplify Machine Design
Not so long ago, engineers had to design automation systems completely from the “ground up” using basic unguided actuators. Shock absorbers, hard stops, sensor and pneumatic plumbing, bearing rails and other guides had to be custom-fitted for an individual system. Today, many companies offering high-quality standard engineered components, from robotic grippers to guided linear and rotational components that are pneumatically and electrically actuated. Building on this progress, modular guided actuators are now available to further simplify and improve the machine design process.
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 | How To Choose the Right Assembly Technology For O-rings and Seals
Seal assembly can be a tedious task and a potential quality issue. Seals seem like simple devices, but the correct assembly technology can be crucial to your application and function of your product. The optimal method of assembly will depend on the seal properties, product volumes, quality requirements and the product itself.
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 | How To Prevent Threaded Assembly Failure
Invented more than 50 years ago by Henkel Corporation (then Loctite), anaerobic threadlockers are single-component adhesives that cure into tough thermoset plastics when exposed to active metals and deprived of air. Threadlockers completely fill the voids between interfacing threads, which prevents side-to-side movement and ultimately prevents loosening.
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 | Estimate The Friction Coefficient During Fastening
Determining the clamp force remains a complex procedure when it comes to assessing the conditions during bolt fastening. Despite this, efforts are made, using simple methods, in production to estimate frictional conditions within the bolted joint.
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 | Self Program & Fasten Multiple Parts on One Assembly Machine
In tough economic times it is even more important to find efficient, cost effective ways to improve assembly processes and to make sure they save you time and money. Assembly automation is a sure way to improve productivity, especially when you find a single innovative system that can drive and assemble multiple parts that have different drive configurations.
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 | Select the Right Test Method to Leak Test Your Products
Selecting the best leak test method is an economic decision that balances the cost of meeting the leak test specifications within the conditions and requirements of production. There are several major factors that influence the right decision.
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 | Design Lean Cells for Flexibility
Becoming lean means more than putting together a few U-shaped work cells. It's a philosophy that drives you to reduce waste. To implement lean, you need to consider how materials, people and information flow through your manufacturing process.
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