Usually, when automakers need to tighten several bolts in an engine assembly, they use multiple fastening spindles mounted in a "hard-tooled" automatic system. Engineers at Ford found a better way.
When implementing either lean manufacturing or Six Sigma, companies often find that reaping the low-hanging fruit is easy, while plantwide improvements are difficult.
Walter Alexander Ltd., the world’s largest builder of double-decker bus bodies, is using Radan’s (Bath, England) computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software to manufacture the ALX range of single- and double-decker buses.
Torit, a global division of Donaldson Co. Inc. (Minneapolis) and manufacturer of air filtration systems, had customer concerns in mind when it was designing its newest cartridge dust collection system—the Downflo Oval 1.
In a motion control system, the amplifier takes a low-voltage command signal from the controller and amplifies it into electrical power to drive the motor.
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