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Why product teardown can be a very powerful tool for manufacturers. 

Bauer Compressors needed a way to more effectively manage its growing parts inventory and add floor space at its assembly plant.

Workstations, flow racks and conveyors take center stage for an assembler of movie lighting.

A great lean thinker has a lens for value.

An ammunition manufacturer needed to feed primers, the cylindrical brass parts used to light the propellant in projectiles. Automation Devices Inc. hit the target.

Robots are taught how to pick up wooden parts that vary in size, density and orientation.

A new process, friction spot joining, has been developed to produce lap joints in aluminum sheets.

Demand for wind power is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. However, wind turbine technology needs to evolve. Engineers are currently struggling to make the devices larger, taller, less expensive , more reliable and more efficient.