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How to Choose a Machine Vision System

March 19, 2012

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Replacing human vision with machine vision (MV) can reduce costs and improve product quality on tasks that are fast, precise or repetitive.

How to Eliminate Output Overloads and Maintenance in Your Index Table Applications

March 19, 2012

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The robust mechanical design of the WEISS index table eliminates the need for an output overload clutch.
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How to Keep Lean

Why are companies moving away from Lean Manufacturing?

March 19, 2012

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Lean is a simple and inherently obvious initiative that strives to identify and eliminate three basic types of waste: muda (“non-value-adding work”), muri (“overburden”), and mura (“unevenness”).

How to Select a Utility Coupler

March 19, 2012

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Utility couplers are made for demanding industrial applications where flawless, fast, and reliable connections are required for air, fluid, power, and signals.

How to Design the Optimum Hinge

March 19, 2012

Christie L. Jones

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A free fit hinge where there is little to no friction or drag when the latch or handle is rotated. Hinge components are “free” to rotate independent of one another.

How to Maximize performance of miniature fasteners during installation with enhanced drive alignment

March 19, 2012

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The continual effort to miniaturize assemblies to support customer demands for smaller, lighter weight goods and products often poses significant production assembly issues for OEMs and CEMs.

How to Choose Fluid Dispensing Components

March 19, 2012

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Consumable components – syringe barrels, pistons and tips – are an important but sometimes overlooked aspect of the fluid dispensing process.

How to Create a Successful Manufacturing Solution for your Business

March 19, 2012

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Effective pre automation planning plays a critical role in defining a successful manufacturing solution for your business. So finding the right pre automation partner is crucial to navigating smoothly through the process.

How to Select an Instant Adhesive

March 19, 2012

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For high speed assembly applications that require extremely strong bonds in seconds, instant adhesives -- also known as cyanoacrylates -- are a natural fit. Ideal for industrial bonding and tacking, these adhesives work reliably on many substrates, are easy to automate or apply manually, and are available in many grades to meet almost any performance requirement.

How to Create Vacuum without AIR!

The World’s First Electric Vacuum Cup

March 19, 2012

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DE-STA-CO continues to set the standard in industrial environmental awareness with the launch of the EcoCup™ with EcoSmart technology, which “creates vacuum without air.”

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AssemTech Inc. is a busy and growing harness assembly shop in West Chicago, IL. The company has a 12,000-square-foot assembly area and employs 20 full-time harness assemblers - far cry from its early days back in 1986, when founder Chuck Hall and various family members assembled harnesses in his garage.

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In December, the nonpartisan Council on Competitiveness issued a landmark report, Make: An American Manufacturing Movement, that provides dozens of recommendations for addressing the many challenges facing U.S. manufacturers. In this podcast, Jack McDougle, the council’s senior vice president for manufacturing, discusses the council’s vision for reviving U.S. manufacturing. Check out this sneak preview of McDougle’s May 2 keynote address to start Tech ManufactureXPO.

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