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DeWys Manufacturing is continually looking for ways to improve its fabrication process. That drive for constant improvement led the company to recently invest in additional robotic welding equipment and reconfigure its manufacturing systems to increase capacity. 

Recently, NBS installed an intelligent feeder and materials management system throughout its highly automated Santa Clara manufacturing facility. The system lets NBS electronically track, monitor, match and record components to PCB assemblies while in-process, eliminating the practice of manual logging.

If at first you succeed, try the same approach again. That’s the philosophy taken by Solyndra Inc. when selecting manufacturing operations software.

“Made in Germany” is a motto that Metz-Werke takes very seriously. To maintain high product quality, and expand production capacity, Metz installed a SIPLACE SX placement machine line.

Earlier this year, the College of Engineering established the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing, the world's first university-based R&D center of its type.

Perhaps the most troubling trend to emerge from our annual Assembly Top 50 report is a sharp decline in R&D spending among the country's leading manufacturers.

Ever have the strange feeling that something big is wrong, but you don’t know what it is? Managing by control points is the only cure.

The Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 promises to spur investment in productivity-enhancing technology.

For more than 40 years, SELEX Galileo has developed space technology used throughout the world. So it was no surprise when the company was tapped in 2009 to be part of the ExoMars mission of the European Space Agency. 

Composites manufacturers are well aware of the potentially explosive nature of airborne dust created by secondary processes such as grinding, sawing, and finish polishing of formed parts. Most facilities utilize “closed vessel” dust collection systems to manage and collect this dust and keep it from migrating throughout the plant.