When you remove the back cover of a TV remote, you will find several small screws. When you open a game controller, plastic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against this backdrop, the equipment choices manufacturers make — and the suppliers they choose to make them with — carry consequences that extend well beyond any single production line. Observing how ...

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 ...

U.S. factories are hiring again, but the new openings do not recreate the familiar path from high school directly to an assembly line. Manufacturers have added 72,000 workers since December, while ...

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 ...

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