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Assemblers must work quickly while meeting strict quality requirements.

For example, according to the Precision Metalforming Association, 69 percent of U.S. metalworking companies have job openings. However, 91 percent of those companies are experiencing challenges finding qualified employees, and 42 percent describe that difficulty as “severe.”

The facility was created by Lipson in 2001 to develop robots that “create and are creative. We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines automatically,” he points out.

This year marks the centennial of the moving assembly line.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software gathers and disseminates critical management information across your entire organization.

Manufacturers in many industries are reshoring their assembly lines. Several factors are behind this phenomenon, including the ability to automate assembly tasks that traditionally used manual or semiautomated fastening equipment.

Fixed automation systems and conventional blind robots have a role in automated assembly, but it’s limited.

The schedule-at-all-cost message has been made too strongly.

The latest Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard requires automotive OEMs to meet an average fleet gas mileage of 54.5 mpg by 2025.

Among the largest purchasers of Vicor Corp.’s power components and systems are electronic manufacturers for the U.S. military.