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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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Implement 5S At Your Workstation
When a 5S program is implemented successfully, the result is a safe, lean and clean workstation. It’s easy to spot missing tools, empty flow racks, safety hazards and overproduction. Workflow is simplified and nonconformities are easily identified. You’ll also have the satisfaction of working in an environment that you’ve taken ownership of, thoroughly cleaned, organized, optimized, and maintained.
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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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 | Eliminate Thread Backlash When a Nut Counters a Setscrew
Cell phone towers are equipped with filter boxes that filter the high-frequency-range (i.e. for UMTS-nets) to generate a narrow-band signal for the data stream. Each filter box contains filter chambers that process the frequency spectrum. The clarity of the filters is adjusted by one or more setscrews, or threaded pins, which are mechanically positioned in each chamber to an axial depth. A counter-nut does the exact positioning and mechanically locks the setscrew.
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 | Select a Rotary actuator
Rotary actuators are standard engineered components used in automation applications to increase system flexibility by adding an axis of rotation. They are primarily used to orient parts in application segments such as machine tending and assembly. These units can be indispensible in an automation process.
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 | In-Process Assembly Monitoring
Consumer demands for improved product quality have led many manufacturers to adopt quality control and part traceability requirements based on 100 percent in-process assembly monitoring as the primary verification procedure. In its simplest definition, in-process assembly monitoring is the practice of using real-time sensor feedback to analyze 100 percent of the assemblies as they are put together.
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 | Select the Right Electro-Mechanical (Servo) Assembly Press
Over the years, press assembly technology has evolved from simple hand-operated presses, which rely on the operator for control, to electro-mechanical presses, which internally control nearly every aspect of the pressing operation. With the advent of the electro-mechanical press (commonly referred to as a servo-press), the level of press control is now virtually unlimited.
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 | Choose Fasteners that Maximize Assembly Life
An assembly can be held together in many ways: bolts, rivets, screws and pins, to name a few. The methods fall into two broad categories: (1) methods that take two components or two operational steps to stay in place; and (2) methods where the components are self-retaining.
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 | Set Up a High Efficiency, High Production Riveting Station
When setting up high efficiency, high production riveting stations, most engineers make the same mistake, they reach for a bottle. While bottle type rivet guns have reached higher ergonomic plateaus through the use of lightweight polymers, they still require a great deal of maintenance in a very short time.
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 | Improve Efficiency and Accuracy with Selective Spray Coating Systems
The automation of spray coating and dispense processes within an assembly line is an effective way to reduce labor and material costs and improve quality, giving manufacturers a competitive edge on their products. While selective coating systems have been in the industry for some time, features continue to be developed to help manufacturers achieve maximum efficiency and flexibility as they spray and dispense coatings onto printed circuit assemblies, devices and other substrates.
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 | Solve Your Process Control Problems in Dispensing
In dispensing adhesives and solder paste, reliability and quality control problems—variations in viscosity and dot size, dripping and waste of the material, and even changes in homogeneity—are conditions that challenge the accuracy and repeatability of fluid dispensing systems.
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 | 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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 | Use Lean Techniques to Achieve Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainable manufacturing is a strategic initiative in many industries to increase energy efficiency, continuously reduce waste, improve pollution abatement, and make greater use of renewable resources. Manufacturers and engineering firms are discovering that there are strong links between “green manufacturing” and “lean manufacturing.”
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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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