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What’s New With Cordless Tools

What’s New With Cordless Tools

Today’s industrial-grade cordless tools combine higher torque and greater accuracy with advanced data-gathering capabilities
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Jim Camillo
June 10, 2020

Few technologies achieve widespread manufacturing acceptance in their original form. Most require some sort of modification before they begin to be regularly used on an assembly line.


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High-Speed Rail Demands Light Railcars

High-Speed Rail Demands Light Railcars

Carbon-fiber composite is on track for big growth in the rail sector
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Austin Weber
June 9, 2020
Automotive and aerospace manufacturers have been at the forefront of the lightweighting trend for some time now. But, they're not the only ones. The railway industry could also benefit from the use of new, lightweight structural materials.
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Fastening, Pressing and Industry 4.0

Fastening, Pressing and Industry 4.0

Engineers can do more with force and torque data than simply make “good” or “not good” decisions about assemblies
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John Sprovieri
May 15, 2020
Just as the Rose Bowl is the "granddaddy" of college football bowl games, torque and angle might well be the granddaddies of manufacturing data collection. Assemblers have been monitoring their fastening processes for decades, but those efforts have reached a new level in the era of Industry 4.0.
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5G Will Drive Tomorrow’s Connected Assembly Lines

5G Will Drive Tomorrow’s Connected Assembly Lines

Next-generation wireless technology is transforming production processes
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Austin Weber
May 15, 2020
The fifth generation of wireless technology is quickly emerging. It will greatly expand the broadband capabilities of mobile networks and provide advanced wireless service for a wide variety of applications ranging from cell phones to assembly lines.
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Cobot Boosts Productivity at Drive Maker

Cobot Boosts Productivity at Drive Maker

Wisconsin manufacturer uses cobot to improve testing and assembly of variable frequency drives
Alex Miller
May 6, 2020
ABB variable frequency drives (VFDs) are used in a variety of industrial and commercial applications to improve productivity and energy efficiency in mechanical systems run by an electric motor.
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Fixtures, Mobile Robots Ease Assembly of Jet Wings

Fixtures, Mobile Robots Ease Assembly of Jet Wings

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Jim Camillo
April 9, 2020
Developing new aircraft is always a challenge, but one that engineers at Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. (GAC) have successfully dealt with for more than 60 years. GAC produces state-of-the-art corporate jets for companies and governments all around the world, with hundreds of them currently in operation.
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Threaded Fasteners for Plastics Assembly

Threaded Fasteners for Plastics Assembly

Here are some tips, tricks and suggestions for using threaded fasteners to assemble plastic parts
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John Sprovieri
April 7, 2020

With so many ways to formulate plastic to get just the right combination of color, texture, strength and durability, it’s easy to forget how the parts will be assembled. However, if the parts will be assembled with screws, overlooking such parameters as thread style, driver speed and boss design could spell disaster on the assembly line.


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ASG Announces Priority Initiative for Medical Device Manufacturers

March 20, 2020

CLEVELAND—To support President Trump’s invoking of the Defense Production Act to increase production of equipment to diagnose and treat COVID-19, ASG, Div. of Jergens Inc., will be implementing an order priority initiative for all medical device manufacturers effective March 19.


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New Technology for Automatic Screwdriving

New Technology for Automatic Screwdriving

Collaborative robots are among the latest products for automatic screwdriving
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John Sprovieri
February 5, 2020
Threaded fasteners are, by far, the most common method of assembling parts. According to ASSEMBLY magazine's annual Capital Equipment Spending Survey, screwdriving is performed at 58 percent of U.S. assembly plants, making it more popular than welding, pressing, adhesive bonding or riveting.
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