Every corporation wants to be innovative. But, being innovative is not a behavior. It’s not something on your to-do list between picking up dry cleaning and writing performance reviews. Innovation is the by-product of plans, processes, people and behaviors.
Time, careful planning, the right tools and a playful attitude are the key ingredients that development teams need to create a winning, next-generation human machine interface.
DeWys Manufacturing is continually looking for ways to improve its fabrication
process. That drive for constant improvement led the company to recently invest
in additional robotic welding equipment and reconfigure its manufacturing
systems to increase capacity.
Recently, NBS installed an intelligent feeder and materials management
system throughout its highly automated Santa
Clara manufacturing facility. The system lets NBS electronically track, monitor, match and record components to PCB assemblies while in-process, eliminating the practice of manual
logging.
“Made in Germany”
is a motto that Metz-Werke takes very seriously. To maintain high product quality, and expand production capacity, Metz installed a SIPLACE
SX placement machine line.
Automakers and suppliers are scrambling to produce key electromechanical components, such as axles, controllers, steering sytems and climate-control systems.
Earlier this year, the College of Engineering established the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing, the world's first university-based R&D center of its type.
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