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Automated Assembly

What’s New With Pneumatic Actuators

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Jim Camillo
Keeping an assembly process simple is always a smart approach to manufacturing any product. And one of the simplest ways to implement linear or rotary motion into an assembly process …
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Screwdriving and Riveting Assembly

New Technology for Automatic Screwdriving

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John Sprovieri
Threaded fasteners are, by far, the most common method of assembling parts. According to ASSEMBLY magazine's annual Capital Equipment Spending Survey, screwdriving is performed at 58 percent of U.S. assembly …
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Plastics Assembly

Hot-Gas Welding of Plastic Parts

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John Sprovieri
The shop floor was hopping in mid-January at Dukane Corp.'s headquarters in St. Charles, IL, 35 miles west of Chicago. Technicians were busy assembling, tooling and testing a variety of …
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Aerospace Assembly

Advanced Materials Push the Envelope in Aerospace Assembly

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Austin Weber
Materials are important in every industry. But, they're critical to aerospace manufacturers. If companies select the wrong material for a particular application, it can have catastrophic consequences. …
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Industries

Assembling Fiber Optics

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Austin Weber
Optical fiber is the backbone of today's digital economy. Global financial transactions, high-speed Internet access, online shopping, video gaming and other things that most people take for granted are possible …
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Automotive Assembly

Monitoring Activity During Wire Harness Assembly

Janos Abonyi Ph.D. Tamas Ruppert
Industry 4.0 and the digital manufacturing revolution are all about collecting - and, more importantly, acting on - data gathered from the assembly process in real time. …
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Industries

Remembering the Assembly--and Repair--of the Hubble Space Telescope

Tim Trainor
Science writer John Wilford once observed that his articles had to focus on one of these story lines to earn their way into print: "big bang, big bucks, big screwup, …
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