Articles by Austin Weber

Flexible systems help drive down production costs.

End-of-line packaging equipment is key to flexible production systems.

The number of onboard components keeps multiplying.

The Airbus A380 presents numerous production challenges.

Engineers are finding new ways to cost-effectively assemble the next generation of automotive safety devices.

The technology exists today, but assembly applications still linger in the future.

Recycling programs challenge Europe's competitive white goods industry.

Blister pack: a thermoformed cavity in plastic that is then sealed to an insert card with a product in between. Blister packs are a cost-effective packaging solution that allows a

Cavity: the space inside a mold into which material is injected. Molds can contain a single cavity or multiple cavities to produce more than one part in a single shot.

ASSEMBLY Magazine recently asked Paul Chauvin, Vectra engineering manager at Ticona Technical Polymers (Summit, NJ), a few questions on plastic medical device trends, issues and challenges. Chauvin has decades