Six Reasons for Capital Equipment Disaster

Capital projects fall short of expectations for reasons that are mostly avoidable

August 12, 2019

In my first postcollege job, I was a manufacturing engineer for Cummins Engine Co. in Columbus, IN. Two weeks into the job, my boss came to me with a project to purchase an industrial wash system, and I leaped at the opportunity. It was a disaster.

Light Fixation Revolutionizes Two-Part Epoxies

The Challenge of Automating a Manual Process

A systems integrator can provide invaluable assistance when automating a previously manual process

Corey Foster

August 9, 2019

When manufacturing engineers are tasked with automating a process that is currently done manually, their main question for an automation supplier is, "Have you ever automated this specific process before?"

Hoffman on Testing

Customer Loyalty—To Disney and Beyond!

What would inspire your loyalty to an automation and test supplier?

Jacques Hoffmann

April 22, 2013

A good partnership between customers and suppliers leads to optimal solutions and long-term prosperity all around.

Automated Assembly

How to Write RFQs for Multistation Automated Assembly Systems

Patricia Carter

March 1, 2001

Suppliers of automated assembly systems agree that the more information they have up front, the more accurately they can estimate the cost of a project and the better they can serve their customer, the assembler.

Writing Capital Equipment Specifications

March 1, 2001

Writing equipment specifications is a critical but often overlooked facet of every assembly project. Equipment specifications are a prelude to issuing RFQs and, with appropriate revisions, become part of the actual purchase order for the equipment.

As more companies automate their screwdriving processes with collaborative robots, there are many factors to consider to ensure employee safety, consistent required torque high degree of repeatability and zero defect products. Join Universal Robots and screwdriving experts Atlas Copco for this joint webinar featuring the latest developments in automated screwdriving.

Few business leaders in the world have applied lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne—and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Famous for turning around the wire management company Wiremold, where he rethought every aspect of operations from the customer’s standpoint, Byrne has successfully implemented lean strategies at more than 30 companies in 14 different countries.

Assembly Magazine

2020 October

The 2020 October Assembly features our cover story: 2020 Assembly Plant of the Year - There's No Looking Back at Murakami, plus much more. Check it out today!

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