EVANSVILLE, IN—Systems integrator Evana Automation Specialists has received a contract to supply three automated assembly machines to a Tier 1 automotive supplier. The machines will produce electronic key fobs.
ALAMEDA, CA—Wrightspeed, a manufacturer of electric hybrid power trains for trucks, has relocated to a new assembly plant here. The factory is expected to employ more than 300 people by 2018.
If someone tells you his leak test system is superior because of its control software, kick the tires, so to speak. In many, if not most, applications, it is the hardware, not the software, that makes or breaks the ability to get high throughput without compromising gauge R&R.
SOUTHFIELD, MI—The automotive assembly line of the future will be more flexible, more capable of handling new materials, and make greater of the mobile technology, says Martin Kinsella, director of advanced materials and process technologies for systems integrator Comau Inc.
WAYNE, MI—Saving the American auto industry was the right thing to do, President Obama told workers at the Ford assembly plant here last week, adding that the industry has created some 500,000 jobs over the past five years.