The U.S. Air Force wanted an adhesive for temporarily attaching small test packages to the exterior of a jet without fasteners. EIC Laboratories Inc. came up with a solution: a high-strength adhesive that disbonds from a metal surface when an electrical current passes through it.
Rayovac Corp. (Madison, WI) carefully selects the materials that make up its industrial flashlights, because industrial and construction workers purchase flashlights based on their ability to withstand harsh conditions.
How you measure torque can affect your perception of how well your fastening tools perform. This article reviews methods for measuring the torque produced by a tool before, during and after fastening.
Tabletop precision assembly systems are poised to move out of the lab and onto the plant floor. Agile assembly architectures promise to help manufacturers use these systems as minifactories for automated assembly of small products.
Round drive belts tend to slip as they reach maximum load capacity. Struggling with this occurrence, Dura-Belt Inc. (Hilliard, OH) chose Stevens Urethane's (Holyoke, MA) thermoplastic polyurethane for its groove sleeve. The substance enables the groove sleeve to increase the load-bearing capacity on industrial conveyors.
Suppliers of automated assembly systems agree that the more information they have up front, the more accurately they can estimate the cost of a project and the better they can serve their customer, the assembler.
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.
The Marshalltown, IA plant of Lennox Industries, a manufacturer of residential and commercial heating and air conditioning equipment, required automation for a new portion of their gas furnace manufacturing process.
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