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ASSEMBLY Capital Spending Report 2018: Spending Increases due to Economic Growth and Tax-Cuts

The past year brought blockbuster headlines for U.S. manufacturing. Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn unveiled plans to build a $10 billion assembly plant in Wisconsin that would make liquid-crystal display panels and employ as many as 13,000 people.

2018 Assembly Plant of the Year: Ford Shifts Flexible Assembly Into High Gear

One of the top transmission assembly plants in the world is Ford Motor Co.'s Van Dyke facility in Sterling Heights, MI. It's part of a network of Ford factories that mass-produce axles, engines and other power train components used in the company's cars and trucks.

Omron sponsors University of Houston robotics lab

Austin Weber

September 16, 2019

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Often, hands-on experience is the best way to prepare college students for life in the real world. That's the goal of the Omron Senior Design and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Houston.

Torque Control for Automated Assembly

Robotic screwdrivers can boost output and increase quality

Kyle Krajewski

September 10, 2019

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Automated assembly is becoming increasingly common, even for small manufacturing companies. Robotic assemblers improve productivity and boost output while ensuring that results are more consistent.

Proposed Legislation Would Provide Aid to Workers Affected by Automation

September 10, 2019

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TOLEDO, OH—Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, has introduced legislation to provide critical resources to workers when companies decide to adopt new technology that will affect their jobs.

Integrating Presses Into Assembly Systems

As the stand-alone, product-dedicated press becomes more obsolete, workcells and assembly lines with integrated presses are becoming more flexible and productive

Jim Camillo

September 9, 2019

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Load cells and sensors used with presses measure several key variables, such as ram force, distance and time, and help ensure they stay within allowable tolerances.

Robots for Handling Heavy Loads

Big six-axis machines are an increasingly common sight on factory floors

Austin Weber

September 5, 2019

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Robotics and wrestling have a lot in common. Flexibility and reach are important to both. Robots and wrestlers also have numerous categories that are based on different weight and payload capacities.

Six Reasons for Capital Equipment Disaster

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

Russ Sorrells

August 12, 2019

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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

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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?"

BIW welding line boosts Ford’s flexibility in China

Jim Camillo

August 7, 2019

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Since 2016, China has been the world's largest industrial robot market. Reports from the International Federation of Robots show that foreign robot makers sold nearly 90,000 units to Chinese manufacturers that year and more than 103,000 robots in 2017

Collaborative Robot Technology Is Maturing

July 29, 2019

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LONDON—During the past decade, collaborative robots have taken the manufacturing world by storm. ABI Research predicts that the human friendly machines will generate $6 billion in annual revenue by 2027.

How to Effectively Deploy Cobots

Assemblers could be throwing away as much as $90,000 per year due to improper integration of collaborative robots

Scott Mazon

July 15, 2019

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Collaborative robots are an exciting area of growth for automation and manufacturing. A potentially useful and cost-effective automated tool for manufacturing, "cobots" can work safely with people in a shared workspace, enhancing flexibility and reducing risk.

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Since cobots burst onto the manufacturing scene a decade ago, they have transformed many factory floors and made automation more accessible to smaller manufacturers. These next-generation machines can control force and work safely next to people on assembly lines without traditional safety guarding.

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ASSEMBLY Capital Spending Report 2018: Spending Increases due to Economic Growth and Tax-Cuts

2018 Assembly Plant of the Year: Ford Shifts Flexible Assembly Into High Gear

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Omron sponsors University of Houston robotics lab

Torque Control for Automated Assembly

Proposed Legislation Would Provide Aid to Workers Affected by Automation

Integrating Presses Into Assembly Systems

Robots for Handling Heavy Loads

Six Reasons for Capital Equipment Disaster

The Challenge of Automating a Manual Process

BIW welding line boosts Ford’s flexibility in China

Collaborative Robot Technology Is Maturing

How to Effectively Deploy Cobots

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