Attendees to the Assembly West Expo and Conference, to be held Nov. 14 to 15, 2001, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, CA, can tour the Boeing factory where the U.S. Air Force's Airlifter cargo jet is assembled.
National Instruments and the Automation and Drives Group of Siemens AG are cooperating to develop solutions for automated manufacturing applications requiring precise measurement and control.
To increase production, speed turnaround and enhance new product development, Multicore Solders, a division of Loctite Corp., will move its manufacturing, technical support and customer service operations to a facility in Industry, CA.
According to the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, U.S. machine tool consumption totaled $268 million.
When faced with manufacturing a complex ignition switch component for an auto manufacturer, Bebusch (Haslach, Germany) turned to Stapla Ultrasonics (Wilmington, MA).
U.S. machine tool sales in April totaled $180.37 million, that's a decrease of 38.6 percent compared with March sales and a decrease of 39.2 percent compared with April 2000 sales.
