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Kawasaki Adds Additional Assembly Lines to MO Plant

September 5, 2020

MARYVILLE, MO—The Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing plant here is adding three additional assembly lines starting this fall.

Lean Layout Do’s and Don’ts

Flexibility and flow are critical to efficient assembly line design

Austin Weber

May 2, 2019

Optimizing flow and minimizing waste are two of the basic elements of lean manufacturing. Those concepts also play a critical role in laying out assembly lines.

MIT Focuses on Human-Robot Interaction

Austin Weber

September 3, 2015

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are studying how robots and humans can work closer together on assembly lines.

Chrysler Redesigns Assembly Line to Boost Productivity

September 25, 2014

WARREN, MI—Chrysler engineers revamped more than 350 workstations at a 76-year-old assembly plant here to boost production of the popular Ram pickup truck.

Mazda Assembly Plant Produces One Car Every 54 Seconds

August 28, 2013

HOFU, Japan—Mazda has built a super-efficient assembly line here that rolls off vehicles at a stunning rate of one every 54 seconds.

Automated Screwdriving with Collaborative Robots

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.

In this informational webinar we will present topics that are essential to quality control along with vision inspection systems. Information pertaining to risk handling and 0 PPM strategy to reduce downtime in assembly applications.

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