WESTBROOK, ME—Systems integrator Lanco Integrated has completed an automated assembly system to produce components for coronavirus test kits. Typically, designing and building such a machine would take approximately 35 weeks, including design, engineering and manufacturing. Lanco had it ready in just eight weeks.

BRIGHTON, MI—Promess Inc., a manufacturer of servo controlled assembly presses, torque test systems and monitoring equipment, has turned its manufacturing expertise to the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the fight against the COVID-19 virus.

MARYSVILLE, OH—Honda is producing critical components for the production of much-needed ventilators at its assembly plant here. The components are being delivered to Dynaflo Inc., a manufacturer of vacuum pumps and compressors in Reading, PA.

Engineering schools around the United States have recently developed a variety of ingenious ways to address the coronavirus pandemic.

Welding may be the most effective and structurally sound way to connect metal parts, but certain applications can pose a challenge.

TOKYO — Saki Corp. has opened a new plant in Yamato Koriyama City, Nara Prefecture to manufacture 3D automated X-ray
inspection equipment.