What were ASSEMBLY Magazine's Top 10 most popular articles from 2022? Multimedia Editor Jennifer Pierce links up with Chief Editor John Sprovieri and Senior Editor Austin Weber for a countdown of the ten most-read manufacturing stories from 2022.
CAMBRIDGE, MA and STANFORD, CA—A team of MIT and Stanford University researchers have developed a machine-learning-based system that increases the feasibility of manufacturing perovskite solar cells, which have an energy conversion efficiency of 18.5 percent.
Start your digital transformation journey in manufacturing and assembly with this simple checklist
May 2, 2022
You want to add more digital technologies to your manufacturing operations but your day-to-day duties are keeping you from getting started - sound familiar?
For products in the consumer, parts, food & beverage, and print & packaging markets, a significant portion of the manufacturing process still relies on manual tasks performed by human operators.
When safety depends on light, the U.S. Armed Forces depend on Cyalume, the manufacturer and supplier of ChemLight, the go-to light stick that provides Illumination for tactical operations. But what happens if your supply chain is threatened. What do you do in the middle of a global pandemic?
NEW YORK — A recent Thomas survey reporting on COVID-19's impact on the U.S. manufacturing and industrial sectors reveals that 64 percent of manufacturers report they are likely to bring manufacturing production and sourcing back to North America. Additionally, the survey finds that one in four U.S. manufacturers are considering expanding industrial automation.
LAFAYETTE, IN — Subaru of Indiana Automotive announced Wednesday that its assembly plant here will add a new $158 million service parts facility and a transmission assembly shop.
On Demand With out-of-the-box thinking, aluminum framing can be used in a variety of ways throughout your manufacturing facility – yielding cost and efficiency benefits along the way.
On Demand This topic is something that challenges each of us every day that we go to work. This talk is about change and why it works and why it fails. It is focused on manufacturing facilities, because that is where the author has spent most of his working life.
On Demand What capital equipment will assemblers buy next year and how much money will they spend on it? Will manufacturers continue to invest in people, plants and equipment? Or is the U.S. headed for a recession?
On DemandJoin Chris Stewart, manufacturing engineer at Pollington, as he relates how the company passed the safe launch and how manufacturing technology like MES software helped Pollington achieve repeatable quality in production.
On Demand This webinar will review the primary process steps in most automated manufacturing projects, the importance of these elements, how to approach and define each step, and then provide insight on maximizing outcomes from both operational and business perspectives.
On Demand Robots are still not as adept as people for complex tasks, such as assembling 3D mechatronic items. Now, new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and large language models in particular, are promising to give robots human-like ability to manipulate objects.
On Demand In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.