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AIA: Motion Control Critical to A380 Assembly

August 7, 2005
Wing assembly for the world's largest commercial aircraft, the A380 from Airbus (Toulouse, France), occurs in two phases.
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Assembly Lines: Robotics Consortium Eyes Aviation Market

August 7, 2005
KUKA Robotics Corp. is joining forces with five other automation companies to develop new manufacturing processes for the aerospace industry.
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Assembly Lines: BMW Opens On-site Pharmacy

August 7, 2005
In an effort to rein in soaring drug costs for its employees, BMW Manufacturing Co. has opened a pharmacy at the U.S. assembly plant where it builds the Z4 roadster and X5 sport utility vehicle.
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AIA: Robots Form Basis of Workcells

August 7, 2005
Over the past quarter century, automotive component manufacturer Bosch Group (Stuttgart, Germany) has manufactured approximately 100 million antilock braking systems (ABS).
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AIA: Over-under Machines Speed Parts Handling

August 7, 2005
Ford Motor Co.'s (Detroit) 2.8-million-square-foot Chicago Assembly Plant is the first car plant in North America that uses the company's flexible manufacturing system.
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X-Y-Z: Encoders Read the Line

John Sprovieri
August 6, 2005
Optical linear encoders read light signals that pass through or reflect off a graduated linear scale.
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Uncommon Sense: Meet Your New Boss!

August 6, 2005
A new management hierarchy typically doesn't understand the technology, isn't as smart as the entrepreneur and-heaven forbid-is driven by profits.
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Editorial: Much Ado About CAFTA

Don Hegland
August 4, 2005
CAFTA is the dawn of a new era in profitable trade! CAFTA is the end of civilization as we know it!
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Are You Ready for Embedded Passives?

John Sprovieri
August 4, 2005
Embedding passive components directly into a circuit board can improve performance, enable more functionality and reduce cost per function.
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Toeing the Line

Adam Cort
August 4, 2005
To survive in an increasingly competitive market, Boeing Co. has completely revamped the way it builds the 737 aircraft.
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