Whether applying a bead of adhesive to automotive glass or gasketing material to an appliance door, six-axis robots can dramatically improve the quality of the operation.
Cessna Aircraft Co. is reporting booming sales of its single-engine piston aircraft line. During one 3-week period this past spring, the company received more than 450 orders.
In 2003, Android Industries (Flint, MI) opened a 226,000-square-foot facility in Shreeveport, LA, to provide outfitting for engines and transmission going into Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks from General Motors Corp.
Component manufacturer Len Industries (Leslie, MI) wanted to reduce labor costs and increase throughput by using a robot to unload randomly placed transmission gears from their storage bins.
The worldwide number of personal computers (PCs) in use, including Macintosh and other platforms, surpassed 820 million in 2004 and is projected to top 1 billion in 2007, according to a report by Computer Industry Almanac Inc.