Engineers
have had to figure out a way to adequately maintain the station given that the
number of supply missions has been considerably reduced following the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
Recently, MPC upgraded its oil-cap assembly machine by substituting a
machine-vision inspection system to take the place of the traditional tool and
sensor technology it had been using previously.
On these and
several other products, Buck Knives uses no other means of attaching the two
pieces together: There is no adhesive, only the two or three rivets inserted
and rolled by the Milford riveter.
Among other
improvements, Eaton wanted to incorporate a real-time test data system that
could be fully integrated with its plant-control network to facilitate
government tracking and record keeping.
The placing heads then
close horizontally, simultaneously inserting the rivets and brackets into the
holes of the harp. Afterward, they extract the stems and return to a home
position.
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