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.
Green manufacturing processes are not just a way to protect the environment. They can be a competitive weapon, says Arpad Horvath, Ph.D., director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing at the University of California at Berkeley.
Tooling a vibratory feeder bowl is truly a black art. Indeed, two bowl makers working side-by-side on bowls for the same part may devise two completely different solutions. In this article, feeder bowl manufacturers describe a few tricks of the trade, and offer tips on how assemblers can facilitate the bowl-making process.
Tony Giammarinaro has seen a few interesting arrangements in his time as a sales representative with Atlantic Industrial Technologies (Islandia, NY), a distributor for Bosch Automation Products (Buchanan, MI).
Compared with die-cut or molded gaskets, liquid gaskets have many design advantages. This article reviews the applications for these materials and tells how best to dispense them.
Among manufacturers of electronic products, few have been as vertically integrated as Fluke Corp. Arial change; Fluke now outsources many aspects of production. To get some insight into how electronics manufacturers make “build-or-buy” decisions, we spoke with David Gunderson, a project manager with Fluke Networks.
The U.S. Air Force wanted an adhesive for temporarily attaching small test packages to the exterior of a jet without fasteners. EIC Laboratories Inc. came up with a solution: a high-strength adhesive that disbonds from a metal surface when an electrical current passes through it.
How you measure torque can affect your perception of how well your fastening tools perform. This article reviews methods for measuring the torque produced by a tool before, during and after fastening.
