When you remove the back cover of a TV remote, you will find several small screws. When you open a game controller, plastic "tabs" snap into place to hold the parts together. The products around us ...

A software-powered simulation for assembly behavior can compensate for the gap in automation by building intuition in the safety of a high-fidelity digital twin. The best way to align a screw is a ...

Inconsistent parts cause problems for automated assembly lines because machines repeat the same motion every cycle. They ...

A new £8 million research project, led by GKN Aerospace and backed by the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), is focusing on developing and demonstrating robotic and digital technologies ...

The new line in Hamburg, Germany, combines fuselage shells into sections, and assembles individual sections into aircraft fuselages. Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line ...

Download the PDF of this article. When a company automates an assembly process, the fastening pins that will be used during assembly are just as important as the automation equipment. Two of the ...

Clinching / Stitch folding Clinching and stitch folding are assembly methods for joining sheet metal without using screws, rivets or other fasteners. Clinching uses a punching and squeezing process to ...

U.S. factories are hiring again, but the new openings do not recreate the familiar path from high school directly to an ...

Configuration: Carousel Systems; Continuous Motion; Inline Indexing; Multi-station; Nonsynchronous; Rotary/Dial; Synchronous; Walking Beam Transfer Equipment Type: Automated Assembly Equipment; ...

In 2017, when Tesla announced incredibly ambitious Model 3 production targets of 5,000 Model 3s per week and the beginning of “production hell,” analysts were wary. But Elon Musk insisted he could ...

Compact, Configurable Automation Equipment Combined with Software, Cloud and AI Technology Easily Integrates into Stationary and Mobile Kitchens SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle-based Picnic™, an ...

Automation is one of the most important strategies for increasing efficiency in production. The positioning and drilling end effector newly developed for a portal system to automate the pre-assembly ...