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Automated Assembly System Roundup

Auto parts, plumbing products and medical devices are among the myriad items made on automated assembly systems

October 4, 2019

There's nothing quite like a multistation automated assembly system. Watching robots, actuators and indexers go about their carefully choreographed routines with little or no human intervention can seem nothing short of miraculous.

Toyoda Iron Works streamlines design with 3D software

Jim Camillo

October 3, 2019

For more than 70 years, Toyoda Iron Works Co. Ltd. (TIW) has supplied steel-plate body frame components, chassis elements and other auto parts to numerous automakers worldwide.

Selecting Retaining Rings

Consider several technical factors to ensure that the right type of retaining ring is used in each fastening application

Henry Yates

October 3, 2019

Engineers are challenged daily to come up with economical product designs that reduce weight, size, raw materials and labor. This competitive mandate affects every design facet, including the fasteners needed to hold components in place.

Optimizing Ultrasonic Plastic Welds

This advice should assist you in solving day-to-day ultrasonic welding challenges

Eddie RosenHanst

October 2, 2019

There's nothing better than starting an ultrasonic plastic welding application and finding the process "window" right away - the sweet spot in which people, parts, equipment and processes run smoothly, with great yields and timely, efficient production.

RIP: Lee Iacocca

John Sprovieri

October 1, 2019

Not many CEOs become household names. Looking at the current Fortune 100, I came up with just three: Jeff Bezos of Am-azon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Michael Dell of Dell, the latter only because I stare at a Dell laptop all week.

Toyota Investing $391 Million in San Antonio Assembly Plant

September 25, 2019

SAN ANTONIO—Toyota Motor Corp. is investing $391 million at its truck assembly plant here. The new spending brings the automaker’s total investment in the factory to more than $3 billion.

Hyundai to Invest Another $292 Million in Alabama Plant

September 24, 2019

MONTGOMERY, AL—Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama recently announced that it’s preparing to invest nearly $300 million more in new machinery and equipment for its factory here.

UAW Strike on GM Enters Second Week

September 24, 2019

DETROIT—General Motors and UAW negotiators continued bargaining Monday in the second week of the union's strike, which is now the longest widespread work stoppage by the UAW since 1985.

50,000 Union Workers at GM Walk Out Over Wages and Idled Plants

September 17, 2019

DETROIT—Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers went on strike Monday against General Motors, bringing more than 50 factories and parts warehouses to a standstill in the union’s first walkout against the automaker in more than a decade.