When Prüfrex received a major new contract to produce small engine ignition control systems for forestry and garden machines, the company decided to replace its existing semiautomated production line with a faster, more powerful alternative.
Watch case component connections are machined at Titan Industries' manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu. Until recently, the components were loaded manually into machines. However, manual loading significantly limited production speed, so Titan automated the process with a robot.
Batteries take up valuable space, add weight and provide limited robustness. In the future, many manufacturers will replace batteries with energy harvesting technology-a cost-effective process of converting freely available energy into electricity.
Until recently, Alger Manufacturing was using an aqueous parts cleaning system that, although environmentally safe, often failed to meet customers’ cleaning requirements. The system trapped impacted chips and water in the parts’ small cavities and blind holes, so the parts would have to be recleaned.
From March to November 2009, a small robot designed to operate in close association with human co-workers was used by Daimler AG at its Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim, Germany, as a pilot project for series production.
The European Space Agency is expected to launch BepiColombo, Europe’s first spacecraft mission to Mercury, in 2014. In the meantime, QinetiQ is manufacturing the spacecraft’s advanced solar-electric propulsion system.
In the past few years, many automakers-including Jaguar, Adam Opel AG, BMW, Audi, and Volvo-have discovered that a crash-durable epoxy adhesive can make their cars safer without sacrificing performance.
The FDA's new Medical Device Innovation Initiative aims to facilitate the development and evaluation of new medical devices; strengthen the nation’s research infrastructure; and respond quickly to scientific breakthroughs.
Innovative Automation Inc., a certified systems integrator for Cognex
Corp., recently was presented with a challenge by one of its long-standing
automotive supplier customers. The supplier needed Innovative Automation to design and build an assembly
line for a new actuator.
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