Articles Tagged with ''factory automation''

Flexible Feeding Systems

Flexible Feeding Systems

A new generation of flexible feeders are helping manufacturers cope with high-mix assembly
Jim Camillo
March 4, 2020
Flexible feeders are great at helping manufacturers accommodate product variants on the assembly line. After the feeder presents parts to a vision-guided robot, one or more cameras take images of the parts, and vision software tells the robot which parts are pickable and which are not. The robot then retrieves the parts for kitting or assembly.
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Electric Vehicle Startups Ramp Up Production

Electric Vehicle Startups Ramp Up Production

Not since the early 20th century has the U.S. automotive industry seen so many startups
John Sprovieri
March 3, 2020
The Budweiser Clydesdales have been an advertising icon since April 7, 1933, when the first hitch of eight horses trotted away from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis with a wagon-load of beer to celebrate the end of Prohibition.
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DAIMLER PRINTS SPARE PARTS FOR BUSES

Five Things: Additive Manufacturing

John Sprovieri
March 3, 2020
Daimler Buses is using additive manufacturing to make spare parts for vehicles on demand. The company's Centre of Competence for 3D Printing is examining more than 300,000 bus parts to determine their suitability for additive manufacturing.
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What’s New With Pneumatic Actuators

What’s New With Pneumatic Actuators

Available in many configurations, pneumatic actuators remain essential workhorses of machine motion and increasingly are being made adaptable to the IIoT plant floor
Jim Camillo
February 6, 2020
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 is with a pneumatic actuator.
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New Technology for Automatic Screwdriving

New Technology for Automatic Screwdriving

Collaborative robots are among the latest products for automatic screwdriving
John Sprovieri
February 5, 2020
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 plants, making it more popular than welding, pressing, adhesive bonding or riveting.
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System Automatically Sorts, Separates Busbars

System Automatically Sorts, Separates Busbars

John Sprovieri
February 4, 2020

A&H Meyer, a manufacturer of cable management systems for furniture, approached RNA Automation Ltd. to design a flexible automation system to sort, separate and feed busbars. The company wanted a system that could handle 12 different lengths of flat and crimped busbars with minimal changeover time.


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Hot-Gas Welding of Plastic Parts

Hot-Gas Welding of Plastic Parts

A new noncontact joining method uses hot nitrogen flowing through custom-built nozzles to soften the weld area
John Sprovieri
February 4, 2020

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 machines, including the latest product in the company's arsenal of plastics assembly technologies: a hot-gas welding system.


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