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John Sprovieri

John Sprovieri

John has been with ASSEMBLY magazine since February 1997. John was formerly with a national medical news magazine, and has written for Pathology Today and the Green Bay Press-Gazette. John holds a B.A. in journalism from Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism.

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Be Safe on the Assembly Line

Be Safe on the Assembly Line

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John Sprovieri
August 5, 2022

On June 6, 51-year-old welder Quoc Le died at a railcar assembly plant in Hamilton, ON, Canada, after a 1-ton bulkhead fell on him. Shockingly, it was the third fatal accident at the factory, which is owned by National Steel Car, in the past 21 months.


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What’s New With Auto ID

New technologies are helping assemblers keep track of product on the line.
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John Sprovieri
August 4, 2022

Being able to identify parts and assemblies on the line is vital for a number of reasons. It ensures that the right parts are installed in the right products. It helps to keep track of production, inventories and supplies. 


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Protect Your Assembly Plant Against Ransomware

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John Sprovieri
July 31, 2022

If you think banks, insurers and credit card companies are the only enterprises that need worry about cybersecurity, think again.


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VW and the Cloud

By creating an industrial cloud, VW hopes to improve systemwide productivity by 30 percent.
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John Sprovieri
June 30, 2022

You can’t accuse Volkswagen’s Dirk Voigt of having his head in the clouds—he’ll take it as a compliment. The head of digital production at VW, Voigt and a team of manufacturing and IT pros are developing an industrial cloud computing system to amalgamate production data from more than 120 factories. The objective: greater efficiency and lower costs.


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Smart Manufacturing at Audi

Digital transformation is well underway at Audi’s five assembly plants worldwide.
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John Sprovieri
June 29, 2022

Automotive OEMs love to show off their automated body-in-white assembly lines. Commercials invariably feature dozens of six-axis robots producing showers of sparks in choreographed routines. 


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BMW Applies AI to Assembly

AI is helping BMW inspect parts, control processes and route AGVs.
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John Sprovieri
June 29, 2022

BMW has been at the forefront of Industry 4.0 for years. For example, the company was an early adopter of additive manufacturing, and today prints hundreds of thousands of production parts annually. 


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Industry 4.0 at Škoda

Digital twins, autonomous mobile robots and AI are some of the cutting-edge technologies helping European automaker Škoda compete.
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John Sprovieri
June 28, 2022

Like many long-established car manufacturers, the company that would become Škoda Auto started in the early 1890s by making bicycles. Today, you won’t see velocipedes rolling off of Škoda assembly lines, but you just might see plug-in electric vehicles.


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Assembling a Wire Harness for Deep Space

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft poses unique challenges for wire harness design.
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John Sprovieri
June 27, 2022

What is the origin of life on Earth? Is there life on other planets? These age-old questions may finally be answered when NASA’s Europa Clipper conducts 44 flybys of Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, beginning in April 2030.


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Augmented Reality Can Impede Optimization of Production

Augmented Reality Can Impede Optimization of Production

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John Sprovieri
June 8, 2022

All that glitters is not gold. Shakespeare's aphorism can apply to the latest manufacturing technologies as much as it does to gaudy false facades.


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Five Things: Automated Assembly

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John Sprovieri
May 24, 2022

Symphoni from ATS Automation is a compact, self-contained, pre-engineered automated assembly cell. Equipped with standard servo-controlled devices, including a high-speed delta robot, the cell can be configured to make a wide range of products, from simple two-piece assemblies to complex products having dozens of components and specialized processes. 


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