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Minimizing changeover times is crucial to leveraging the full potential of today’s automated wire termination machines.

Widely used for parts handling and packaging, grippers employing an extruded aluminum framework are cost-effective and flexible.

Make your changes visible. If others can’t see them, they can’t learn from them and won’t follow your lead.

Lambert Engineering Ltd. (North Yorkshire, England) builds automated production equipment for a wide range of customers, including those in the automotive industry

A little over 300 years ago-in 1689 to be precise-King Charles XI of Sweden decreed that a weapons factory be built in the town of Huskvarna. A few decades later, some of the artisans work-ing there switched from crafting firearms to making a peaceful precision product-sewing machines.

American Stove Parts (Temecula, CA) manufactures components for gas cook stoves, including fil-ters, tube assemblies, injection molded components, valves, fittings, door gaskets and burner knobs.

As assemblers continue to integrate packaging into their production lines, many engineers are turning to other industries for insights into ways to increase flexibility and efficiency.

Lake Cable LLC (Bensenville, IL) manufactures wire and cable assemblies for the power generation, energy distribution, building automation and fire systems industries.

Recent quality glitches at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (Renton, WA) and Toyota Motor Corp. (Nagoya, Japan) have raised quite a few eyebrows in the manufacturing world.