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Build or buy? Manufacturing engineers must answer that question with every automation project.

John Deere & Co. (Moline, IL) set a company goal to reduce the cost of parts purchased by its major equipment divisions.

When the BMW plant in Dingolfing, Germany, needed sensors to inspect formed parts for its 7-series automobiles, the automaker turned to SICK (Minneapolis).

Mecafi (Chatellerault, France) is a contract machine shop specializing in precision, high-speed machining and surface treatment of parts made of aluminum and magnesium alloys, as well as titanium, cast iron and other hard materials.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun construction on a new research facility devoted to nanotechnology.

Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology enables full-color, full-motion flat-panel displays with a level of brightness and sharpness not possible with other technologies.

If you overrun that firm, fixed price, you eat the difference, unless you can convince the contracting officer-or your local politician-that you really deserve more.

Printing electronic circuits on sheets of plastic may offer a low-cost technique for manufacturing thin-film transistors for flexible displays.

Robots need strong end-effectors to handle large, heavy objects.

ATExpo marks its 25th year of leadership in showcasing the state of the art in assembly technology.