Analogic Corp. (Peabody, MA) manufactures advanced systems and subsystems for medical, industrial and telecommunications original equipment manufacturers.
Lasko Metal Products Inc. (West Chester, PA), a manufacturer of ventilation devices and household appliances, needed a welding method for the assembly of reservoir jugs for its humidifiers. These oddly-shaped reservoir jugs are large and can hold several gallons of fluid.
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.
BG Laboratories Inc. (Binghampton, NY) manufactures space-saving miniature transformers for laptop computer modems, and the thin-wall molding capabilities and other properties of DuPont's (Wilmington, DE) Zenite LCP 7130 play a key role in the manufacturing process. Zenite LCP 7130 is a 30 percent glass-reinforced resin with a heat-deflection temperature of 552 F and UL94 V-O flammability rating.
Among manufacturers of electronic products, few have been as vertically integrated as Fluke Corp. Arial change; Fluke now outsources many aspects of production. To get some insight into how electronics manufacturers make “build-or-buy” decisions, we spoke with David Gunderson, a project manager with Fluke Networks.
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.