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KUKA Robotics Corp. is joining forces with five other automation companies to develop new manufacturing processes for the aerospace industry.

In an effort to rein in soaring drug costs for its employees, BMW Manufacturing Co. has opened a pharmacy at the U.S. assembly plant where it builds the Z4 roadster and X5 sport utility vehicle.

Over the past quarter century, automotive component manufacturer Bosch Group (Stuttgart, Germany) has manufactured approximately 100 million antilock braking systems (ABS).

Ford Motor Co.'s (Detroit) 2.8-million-square-foot Chicago Assembly Plant is the first car plant in North America that uses the company's flexible manufacturing system.

Optical linear encoders read light signals that pass through or reflect off a graduated linear scale.

A new management hierarchy typically doesn't understand the technology, isn't as smart as the entrepreneur and-heaven forbid-is driven by profits.

CAFTA is the dawn of a new era in profitable trade! CAFTA is the end of civilization as we know it!

The rear lift gate on the Audi A3 consists of three sheet metal panels, each with a different thickness, joined with round clinch joints.

This January, after a 7-year, 2-billion-mile journey strapped to the side of the Cassini orbiter, the Huygens probe decelerated 12,000 mph in less than 2 minutes before parachuting to the frozen surface of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons.

Kenmore International (Oslo, Norway) is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of wire-on-tube evaporators. These evaporators are exported around the world for use in domestic refrigerators and industrial bottle coolers.