Threaded and nonthreaded fasteners are, by far, the most popular means of assembling parts. Here’s a look at some of the latest fasteners and the equipment for installing them.
Note to the U.S. healthcare industry: Heed the words of Spanish-American writer and philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Boston University recently opened its Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (RASTIC)
where students can design, build and test a wide range of robots to solve real-world problems.
DAS Medical Holdings began operations using QuickBooks for accounting. However, as the company experienced rapid and significant growth, it soon outgrew QuickBooks’ capabilities. It was ready for a full enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that could support manufacturing, inventory control, and material requirements planning (MRP).
Engineers have many options for welding plastic parts, including ultrasonic, vibration, laser and hot-plate welding. Two of the newest machines for joining plastic parts will be on display at The ASSEMBLY Show this fall.
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Manufacturers has released a report on artificial intelligence that examines why the technology is important and explains how leading companies are using it to improve productivity.
According to Info-Tech, companies should adopt Smart Manufacturing 5.0, which combines the innovations of Industry 4.0 with a focus on human-centric, resilient and sustainable practices.
Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) here have developed a new system that combines sensor technology, data acquisition and AI-based data evaluation for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance.
The Grasping Neural Process trains robots to infer invisible physical properties from a history of attempted grasps, and then use the inferred properties to guess which grasps would work well in the future.
