Ultimately,
after consulting with a student-run focus group and putting the project out for
bid, the college replaced more than 200 of its old desks with a set of Arlink
workstations from industrial workbench and cabinet manufacturer Lista
International Corp.
DCI
Inc., in Olathe, KS, designs and manufactures electronics components and
subassemblies for customers in a wide range of industries. The company
specializes in the design and manufacture of specialized custom liquid crystal
displays, light emitting diode displays and operator interfaces.
Traditional vibratory bowl feeders use a helical shelf-like inclined ramp
winding up from the bottom of a bowl to a discharge passageway. The
passageway’s reciprocating motion pushes the parts up the ramp.
Comau Group, a subsidiary of Fiat Spa, builds automated production
machines for a wide range of customers, including those in the automotive
industry. The company also manufactures turnkey automated assembly systems,
robots, weld guns, conveyors, recognition software and other automation
components.
Aerospace and automotive manufacturers have been incorporating hybrid joining into their production for years now. This joining method, however, has been largely ignored by appliance manufacturers. A novel approach to assembly construction, the method is surely applicable within the appliance industry - and stands to benefit both appliance manufacturers and end users.
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. has opened its new headquarters in Thornton, CO. Expected to hire some 200 people during the next two years, the facility was built to launch full-scale production of thin-film photovoltaic modules.
Systems integrator Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing (Madison, WI) can’t lay claim to building a better mousetrap. However, it did find a way to build mousetraps better.
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