When Meridian Automotive Systems (Angola, IN) needed to boost productivity on a roll-forming bumper operation, the company switched from resistance welding to a weld process developed with Newcor Bay City (Bay City, MI).
The Motorola facility in Elma, NY, produces over 1 million parts annually, supplying electronic modules to some of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world. Depending on the type of unit installed, its circuits could control one or more operations, such as interior lights or power windows, door locks, seats and seat heating.
Skill Tool & Die (Cleveland, OH) set a goal of producing a spare tire bracket more efficiently and with better quality. Achieving this goal required streamlining the job from manual welding to a fully automated welding operation.
Tony Giammarinaro has seen a few interesting arrangements in his time as a sales representative with Atlantic Industrial Technologies (Islandia, NY), a distributor for Bosch Automation Products (Buchanan, MI).
Crane Plumbing LLC (Evanston, IL) manufactures sanitary housewares. Its Dallas division, which was started in 1985 and has approximately 250 employees, manufactures porcelain-on-steel bath products, such as sinks, lavatories and bathtubs.
No one, especially a shareholder, is happy with a company that doesn't grow. The three most common and obvious ways companies achieve growth are by increasing market share, introducing new products and buying another company. The first two are often successful but, as competitors counterattack to defend their turf, they can also lead to price cutting, shrinking margins and loss of bottom-line profits.
Analogic Corp. (Peabody, MA) manufactures advanced systems and subsystems for medical, industrial and telecommunications original equipment manufacturers.
Engineers have made significant strides replicating vision and touch in automated systems. Assembly line robots may soon be equipped with other humanlike features, such as hearing, smell and taste. This article reveals the latest automated sensory technology research and explores potential assembly applications
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